Pete McCloskey, a stand up guy, a fighter and a Repub. too

[Botany]

A real old school man sick of the corruption comes back to fight again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/11/politics/11mccloskey.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

<Yes, this is the same Pete McCloskey, now 78, the left-wing Republican from the San Francisco Bay Area who in the early 1970's thundered on the House floor for the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon and demanded an immediate end to the Vietnam War, who helped create Earth Day and wrote the Endangered Species Act.

Now Mr. McCloskey, marching to a drummer perhaps only he hears, is taking on a powerful incumbent member of Congress of his own party, Richard W. Pombo, in a long-shot quest to return to Washington for one last hurrah. He accuses Mr. Pombo of being one of the most corrupt members of Congress, a tool of the deposed majority leader Tom DeLay and one of the biggest recipients of the largess of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff.>
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I will always like Pete for telling the true Pat Robertson story about Pat's Korean war History.
Long story short ..... Pat and Pete McCloskey were both on the boat to the war in Korea,
Pat got scared and got in touch with his dad who was a senator from Va, Daddy Robertson
called the Sec. of the Navy, Pat and 2 of his friends did not get back on the boat when it left
Japan for Korea, and years later when Pat ran for President in '88 Pete told this story and Pat sued
him for slander. Funny, when a tough marine sergeant from Oklahoma (?) said that he would testify
that he will always remember pulling away from the dock and Pat Robertson was standing there and
waving to his fellow marines, Pat dropped the suit.

[tsuki]

1. Revolt of the Elders. Bring it on!

I loved the Pat Robinson story also.

[Botany]

2. i forget exactly where the old marine who called Roberston out

was from (I think it was Oklahoma) but he was a real character.
Crew cut and big shoulders all these years later .......
"Yeah, Pete and I might not see eye to eye on somethings but he is O.K. by me. I still
remember Robertson and two of his friends standing on the dock and waving @ us as
we pulled out. Never liked that little son of a bitch."

When Pete went and Pat pulled out 1st Lt. had about an 80% casualty rate for marine
ground forces.

I would love to see Pete win his primary and the house seat too.

[mdmc]

3. me too! Nice to see some good gop news...

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