Former GOP state legislator says he'll challenge Sen. Feinstein

[Kadie]

Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Former GOP state legislator says he'll challenge Sen. Feinstein


WASHINGTON (AP) - A retired Republican state legislator says he'll run against Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein when she seeks a third full term next year.

Richard Mountjoy of Monrovia served in the state Assembly and Senate for more than two decades before term limits forced him out in 2000. He is the only Republican who has announced plans to challenge Feinstein. Software executive Bill Mundell explored the idea before taking his name out of contention in November.

The 72-year-old Feinstein is heavily favored for re-election in the Democratic-leaning state.

As a state legislator, the conservative Mountjoy was a leading proponent of Proposition 187, the controversial 1994 measure that sought to deny government benefits to illegal immigrants.

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4406217

[madeline_con]

1. Isn't she the one who made stricter gun laws,

but carried a piece in her purse?

[BrotherBuzz]

6. She's held a concealed firearm permit since the 1970's

Her thing is to ban semiautomatic weapons that fit the assault weapon category (large magazines?) The ban was passed as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. In 2004 an amendment was passed by Feinstein to provide for a 10 year extension of the ban. However, the bill it was attached to, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, failed by a large margin.

[benEzra]

10. As mayor of San Fran, she fought for a total ban on all handguns

but it was overturned by the courts. While fighting for the ban, I have read she turned in one of her handguns as a public gesture of support for the law...but kept her other handgun, which she was licensed to carry...

The "assault weapon" bait-and-switch banned the new manufacture of all civilian firearms holding more than only 10 rounds, with a few inconsequential exceptions, and restricted all civilian self-loading firearms manufactured after Sept. 1994 from having two or more of a list of cosmetic or ergonomic features she didn't like. (i.e., a rifle could have a protruding handgrip or a screw-on muzzle brake, but could not have both; a rifle with a protruding handgrip would have to have a pin-on brake instead, or a smooth muzzle).

That has to be the most hated piece of Federal legislation among American gun owners ever, and mobilized gun owners into political action like no other issue before or since.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. I'm waiting to see if a Demo challenges her.

[kevinmc]

3. The Dem's Better Find another Candidate else........

Cause I have already told Feinstein I will not vote for her again.....CAFTA...was the last straw

[yurbud]

4. she better change her mind on the filibuster...

[jsamuel]

5. CAFTA.... HORRIBLE

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[jsamuel]

8. "rights will not be infringed" - Bush doesn't understand any words with

more than one syllable... sorry, not a good argument for him...

that would explain the NSA spying on AMERICANS thing though, he must have thought it said

"rights will not be in *$%#"

[oasis]

9. Senate for now, Supreme Court Justice in 2009 or 2010.

[ComerPerro]

11. And Republcians have done so much for California

:eyes:

Anyone who votes for the GOP is an idiot.