Pombo: 'I didn't do anything wrong'

[Kadie]

Pombo: 'I didn't do anything wrong'
Lawmaker says he's been unfairly linked to scandals

AUDREY COOPER
Record Staff Writer
Published Friday, Jan 13, 2006



Rep. Richard Pombo lashed back at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi late Thursday afternoon, just hours after the Democratic leader asked for an investigation into several Republican congressmen, specifically mentioning Pombo and three other politicians.

Pombo said his role as a high-profile House committee chairman has caused him to be unfairly named as a peripheral figure in some recent scandals. In his statement, the Tracy Republican said Pelosi had "stooped to the level of Joe McCarthy" in order to pick up Democratic seats this November and earn the title of speaker of the House.

A scandal, Pombo said in the statement, "always gives Congress a black eye. ... Perhaps the only thing I find more contemptible is the kind of baseless, politically motivated character assassination tactics Congresswoman Pelosi has engaged in today."

Pelosi, D-San Francisco, held a Washington news conference Thursday to release a letter she had written to Speaker Dennis Hastert.

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Pombo said environmental groups and Democratic operatives misconstrue his activities but added that it's sometimes hard to explain the nuances of lawmaking procedures.

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[Gormy Cuss]

1. Pombo claiming to understand nuance

Pombo's nuanced view of environmental policy:
:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[tularetom]

2. With the POSSIBLE exception of Tom Delay

There is no member of congress more oily, avaricious and just outright repulsive than Richard Pombo. His district however is changing as it becomes increasingly urbanized and Bay area transplants outweigh the local rednecks who have always formed his base. I hear there may be a couple viable challengers for hsi seat but if there aren't they need to find one and get rid of this piece of shit.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. If Pombo isn't a reason to keep abortion legal

I don't know what is. The man is a walking birth defect.

[texastoast]

5. Cleaning computer now

Thanks a lot.

:rofl:

[MasonJar]

4. I have sent money to more than one environmental group to

stop Pombo, who is one of the evil empire of environmental murders. The man is slime. Go, Nancy, go.