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In California, Border Is Focus of an Election [CA-48 Special]
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Dec 03, 2005 07:16pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Monday, December 5, 2005 01:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Published: December 4, 2005
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 - With a special election on Tuesday, one of the strongest Republican Congressional districts in California has become a focal point for national immigration policy, thanks to a long-shot independent candidate who helped organize a volunteer border patrol group.
The overwhelming favorite in the race is John Campbell, a Republican state senator whose politics are well suited to the conservative Orange County district vacated by another Republican, Christopher Cox. Mr. Cox left the position after 17 years when President Bush chose him in August to head the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mr. Campbell opposes abortion rights and gay marriages. He favors cutting taxes and reducing federal spending. He supports Mr. Bush's war on terror and withdrawing troops from Iraq only after Iraqi sovereignty is clearly established.
And he favors strong enforcement of national immigration laws.
Yet his major challenger, Jim Gilchrist, a maverick Republican turned independent who was a founder of the patrol group, the Minuteman Project, has made immigration policy the central theme of his campaign. He has painted Mr. Campbell as soft on the issue in a strategy to wrest the seat from Republicans for the first time in nearly 30 years.
"This is the one issue from which all others flow," Mr. Gilchrist said, referring to his view that lax immigration policy creates such statewide and national concerns as overcrowding in public schools and hospitals and rising crime rates. "It's the one issue that puts our future prosperity and security into jeopardy." |
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