Richard Pombo (CA-11) has gotten annoyed enough at the Defenders of Wildlife's efforts to unseat him in his bid for re-election that he's now resorting to petulant name-calling. Yesterday, the Congressman's hometown paper, the Tracy Press, reported:
The campaign manager for Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, described anti-Pombo campaigners linked to Defenders of Wildlife as "scum" after they accused Pombo in a mailer of refusing to investigate child prostitution, forced abortion and sweatshop labor in the Mariana Islands while he was "under the influence" of convicted felon and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
