{"id":10839,"date":"2009-12-30T16:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-30T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:22:34","slug":"ca19-pombo-mulling-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/30\/ca19-pombo-mulling-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-19: Pombo Mulling Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s (maybe) BAAAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKK:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, the 48-year-old Republican is thinking about a return to Congress &#8211; in George Radanovich&#8217;s 19th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started getting phone calls last night,&#8221; Pombo said today. &#8220;Obviously, I haven&#8217;t made my mind up on it at all, but it is something that I am considering.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/406\/story\/1764029.html\">Fresno Bee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t expect Jeff Denham to simply stand aside for Pombo, and Rep. Radanovich likely won&#8217;t change his endorsement. After all, Pombo does have some strikes against him. He&#8217;s a bit of a carpetbagger in this seat, and oh yeah, there are the ethics issues still clouding his record. &nbsp;I&#8217;m not sure that voters are really looking to find somebody who has a history with Abramoff.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Pombo&#8217;s crazy record, and possible renewal of seniority within the Republican caucus, could be a draw to Republican voters. &nbsp;Don&#8217;t count him out yet. Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/saynotopombo.blogspot.com\/\">SayNoToPombo<\/a> needs to make a comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s (maybe) BAAAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKK:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, the 48-year-old Republican is thinking about a return to Congress &#8211; in George Radanovich&#8217;s 19th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started getting phone calls last night,&#8221; Pombo said today. &#8220;Obviously, I haven&#8217;t made my mind up on it at all, but it is something that I am considering.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/406\/story\/1764029.html\">Fresno Bee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t expect Jeff Denham to simply stand aside for Pombo, and Rep. Radanovich likely won&#8217;t change his endorsement. After all, Pombo does have some strikes against him. He&#8217;s a bit of a carpetbagger in this seat, and oh yeah, there are the ethics issues still clouding his record. &nbsp;I&#8217;m not sure that voters are really looking to find somebody who has a history with Abramoff.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Pombo&#8217;s crazy record, and possible renewal of seniority within the Republican caucus, could be a draw to Republican voters. &nbsp;Don&#8217;t count him out yet. Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/saynotopombo.blogspot.com\/\">SayNoToPombo<\/a> needs to make a comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[2908,3239,34],"class_list":["post-10839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-2908","tag-3239","tag-34"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2OP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}