Pombo's choice beneficial to taxpayers

Larry Hite

Tracy Press

I’ve been following the recent allegations about Congressman Richard Pombo and ...   more »

Coach says he'll run for City Council

DAVID SIDERS
Record Staff Writer
Published Sunday, Jan 29, 2006

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Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, no longer can take for granted his re-election to the House of Representatives. His days of easy victories might be over.   more »

Pete McCloskey is one of the most unique - and quixotic - opponents Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, possibly could confront. McCloskey spent 14 years in Congress (1968-1982), he co-authored the Endangered Species Act (1973) that Pombo wants to rewrite, he ran for president against Richard Nixon (1972) and his political career began when he defeated the much-better-known Shirley Temple Black (1967) for the House seat representing the Peninsula south of San Francisco. Here are McCloskey's problems:   more »

Pombo could find himself crying in his beer come November, experts said. Pombo's district includes most of San Joaquin County and parts of Contra Costa, Alameda and Santa Clara counties.   more »

Former Congressman Pete McCloskey pledged Monday to return the Republican Party to the center and improve ethical standards in officially announcing he will challenge Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, in the 11th Congressional District Republican primary. "To me, this man Pombo is an embarrassment," McCloskey said at a news conference Monday morning at Lodi Beer Co. on School Street. "We need to get back to honesty, fiscal responsibility and especially ethics."   more »

Ruminating on topics such as the favorite football team and his family history, Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, answered questions from Kelly School eighth-graders in a one-hour session Monday morning.   more »

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.   more »

Rep. Richard Pombo came to the weekly Rotary Club luncheon here planning to tout his efforts to overhaul the Endangered Species Act and expand domestic oil drilling.   more »

STOCKTON - San Joaquin County officials want state and federal lawmakers to focus in the coming year on improving the Delta's aging levees to prevent potential flooding. The county Board of Supervisors approved a list of legislative priorities Tuesday that also asks for increased funding for public hospitals, buildings and roads, development at Stockton Metropolitan Airport, and better management of water from the Mokelumne River.   more »

Rep. Richard Pombo said Monday that his effort to scuttle a federal investigation of a Houston millionaire was meant to counteract environmentalists and officials in President Bill Clinton's administration who were trying to obtain thousands of acres of redwood trees the man's company owned. In a conference call with reporters, Pombo R-Tracy, said the attempt by federal regulators to procure land owned by Charles Hurwitz was orchestrated by environmental groups bent on denying Hurwitz his private property rights.   more »

SACRAMENTO - U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo of Tracy lashed out Monday against allegations he improperly compromised a federal investigation of the owner of Northern California's Pacific Lumber Co. - a major contributor to the indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.   more »

The atmosphere of nonstop campaigns and perpetual political action came to central California last year in the race for Rep. Richard Pombo’s congressional seat. His name didn’t appear on any ballots in 2005, but Pombo, a Tracy Republican in his seventh term, has spent much of the year battling critics’ attacks on his legislative agenda and ethical integrity. Three Democrats and one Republican are already running or laying the groundwork for campaigns in his district nearly a year from Election Day.   more »

A Dec. 23 Record letter writer made the standard liberal comment that Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, wants to "gut" the Endangered Species Act. This isn't based on fact. I remember when we had the big flood 10 years ago. The levees broke, and homes were flooded around Mossdale and along the Delta. The Endangered Species Act was protecting some gopher or mole that bored holes in the levees and was a contributor to the levees' failure.   more »

In an e-mail last week, Pombo said he expected additional legislation to address the labor issue: "This is a first step in the right direction, and I expect more proposals, including temporary worker provisions, will come up next year." That would be welcomed by Rodney Schatz, Lodi grape grower and chairman of the California Association of Winegrape Growers. He said the large number of illegal immigrants in the United States points out the need for such labor.   more »

The famed battleship USS Iowa would retire in California under legislation announced Friday, opening the way for Stockton and other port cities to vie for the right to put it on public display.   more »

Extreme environmental groups do not like him.The liberal editorial page of The New York Times has attacked him. And the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has made him a high-profile target in the 2006 congressional elections. Wow! Who is this guy? He must be doing something right.   more »

Environmental groups have whirled themselves into a froth opposing it. Pombo sees this as a sign his time may finally have arrived.   more »

Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY) has responded to these criticisms with a piece in the Casper (WY) Tribune in which she says one of the reasons for the proposal is to stop the outsourcing of hard rock mining to foreign countries. She disputed the claims made by environmental groups about the bill and below we've noted her clarifications.   more »

I ran across this story over the weekend in the Sac Bee. While I'm glad to see Rep. Pombo is looking into it, it seems someone from the California delegation is missing. Event without knowing all of the in's and out's of the Pineros, it's pretty clear that this is first a LABOR issue and that Rep. George Miller is the #1 democrat on the House committee that deals with labor issues. I have to ask, what (if anything) is HE doing about this problem?   more »