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  Full Biography for Robert Kenneth "Bob" Dornan
Robert K. Dornan was first elected to Congress in 1976, representing California’s 27th C.D. in western Los Angeles County and served from January 1977 to January 1983.
During the Carter years, Dornan was a leader in the congressional battle to restore the supersonic Strategic Air Command penetrator aircraft, the B-1B "Lancer," which was canceled by President Carter in June of 1977.
Clinton years: Dornan was a key leader in the successful effort to prevent the administration from eliminating the prohibition on homosexuals in the military, and was the sponsor of legislation to codify the ban.
www.smartvoter.org /1998nov/ca/state/vote/dornan_r/bio.html   (776 words)

  
  Bob Dornan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Kenneth "Bob" Dornan (born April 3, 1933) is a Republican and former member of the United States House of Representatives from California and a vocal pro-life advocate.
In 1976, Dornan was elected to the House of Representatives, representing the 27th Congressional District in western Los Angeles County.
Dornan claims that he and Dick Darman, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget during the administration of George H. Bush, nearly got into a fistfight in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol on October 16, 1990, the night the U.S. House of Representatives voted for Bush's 1990 tax increase.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Dornan   (1657 words)

  
 BROADCASTTALK.COM: The Bob Dornan Show
Bob Dornan's passion comes from first-hand experience as a young fighter pilot just after the Korean War, a combat photographer in wartime Vietnam, and a ranking veteran of the House Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence committees.
Bob Dornan was a local radio talk host, TV news anchorman, broadcast journalist, and television producer/host who won two Emmy Awards.
Bob Dornan brings a wealth of first-hand experience, broad knowledge, fierce passion, and heart-warming humor and stories to the radio.
talk-radio.20m.com /bob_dornan.html   (449 words)

  
 AEGiS-WSJ: Liars, Gays, Aliens, Hispanics, Women: It's All Their Fault --- Rep. Dornan Spreads Blame For His Apparent ...
Dornan says, referring to the Hispanic businesswoman and novice politician who, after the final votes are counted next week, is expected to have scored this year's biggest political coup.
The former fighter pilot is known as "B-1 Bob," both for his passionate defense of the bomber planes and for his scorched-earth rhetoric.
Dornan frittered away much of his campaign funds in his ill-fated run for the presidency earlier this year.
www.aegis.com /news/wsj/1996/WJ961106.html   (1254 words)

  
 Evelina Alarcon - Loretta Sanchez defeats ultra right-wing Dornan in Cal.
The defeat of nine-term Congressman Bob Dornan signals a historic turn away from right-wing politics in Orange County, a nationally-recognized citadel of conservatism.
While Democrats are his main target, when Dornan defeated Judy Ryan, a judge, in the 1992 Republican primary he used racist and sexist terms to refer to her supporters.
At press time, Dornan was claiming that his loss was due to a massive case of "voter fraud" and the votes of non- citizens.
www.pww.org /archives96/96-11-23-1.html   (930 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: 'B-1 Bob' Dornan Is on the Attack Again
No doubt about it, "B-1 Bob" is back, bombastic as ever and ready for another gloves-off fight against the woman he accuses of stealing his House seat by registering noncitizen voters, defeating him by only 979 votes in the last election.
Dornan raised $1.4 million at last count, but most of it was through expensive direct-mail appeals and he was left with only about $150,000 in his treasury.
Dornan, who said he cannot afford television buys in the expensive southern California market, has relied mostly on direct-mail advertising, precinct walks, radio and television talk shows and working the telephones to overcome what he concedes are negative feelings from his challenge to Sanchez's election.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces98/stories/dornan051698.htm   (905 words)

  
 NewStandard: 9/2/97
Dornan contends there were enough improper ballots to support a new election.
Dornan's fiery House speeches often evoked intense anger from Democrats, who many times demanded that his words be stricken from the official record.
Dornan was on a family vacation and unavailable for comment, said Michael Schroeder, one of his attorneys.
www.s-t.com /daily/09-97/09-02-97/a05wn034.htm   (664 words)

  
 dornan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
But Bob said something that evening that showed the mark of the man; "I'm not here for an interview, I just have become so close to your family, I felt I should join them in welcoming you home safe." There was never a word in the media about Bob's "scoop." He kept his word.
Bob introduced important legislation that would protect your sons and daughters in future wars.
I believe if Bob's Democratic opponent had taken this same honest approach and required her campaign workers to take this approach, Bob Dornan would today be in Congress demanding answers to the deep moral and ethical questions, the current President faces.
www.rossie.com /dornan.htm   (799 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Conservative Firebrand Bob Dornan Blazes Comeback Trail to the House
Dornan's victory in Tuesday's California primary – achieved without the support of congressional Republican leaders in Washington – sets the stage for a re-match in November against Democratic incumbent Loretta Sanchez.
Dornan's 1996 election loss in the conservative bastion of Orange County – in a district that is mostly ethnic but has a conservative voter turnout base – was seen as an embarrassment for the party.
Dornan himself accepted some of the responsibility for ignoring his last congressional race in favor of a quixotic bid for the GOP presidential nomination.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces98/stories/lscadornan060398.htm   (926 words)

  
 A Sad Story
Dornan got the attention of rich, conservative Republicans in southern California as a result of his local radio talk show on which he espoused their favorite lines.
Dornan became enraged that a retired USAF officer would spread such phony stories and asked that he personally deliver this story to the widow so he could explain the source of this nonsense.
Dornan is a very busy man and, as with all members of Congress, he has little time to study an issue in depth.
www.miafacts.org /cuban_program_1.htm   (3913 words)

  
 U.S. Suffered Over 20,000 More Military Dead
On September 18, with an official announcement pending of "overwhelming evidence" of voter fraud that victimized Congressman Bob Dornan, the House of Representatives voted to bar POW/MIA champion Dornan from the House floor until a proposal for a December special election is debated.
INS officials in Los Angeles estimated that in Dornan's district around 500 criminal aliens granted citizenship may have voted, that is half the margin of the Sanchez victory.
As evidence mounts that Dornan was the victim of a substantial vote scam that involved non-citizens manipulated by activists groups such as Hermandad Mexicana and the Vietnamese Community of Orange County, Inc., the Democratic Party and their leftist allies have gone on the offensive.
www.usvetdsp.com /dornan.htm   (1324 words)

  
 Dornan: Passionate about issues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dornan, a former reporter, television actor and Emmy Award winner for his TV talk show, peppers his conversations with references to famous Hollywood friends, relatives and neighbors.
Dornan knows he comes on a bit strong and is often dismissed as a right-wing nut.
Dornan, who was first elected to the House in 1977, helped pave the way for the conservative activist wing of his party to take control of the House.
www.gazetteonline.com /caucus/dornan/gdor003.htm   (798 words)

  
 Presidential Candidate Robert Dornan - The Dark Side: Character and Scandals
Dornan was a civil rights activist who stood by Martin Luther King during the 1963 March on Washington and helped register fl voters in Philadelphia, Mississippi during 1964.
Dornan was a fighter pilot who flew several varied aircraft and worked in Air Force Intelligence.
According to a sympathetic biography of Dornan by Andrew Sears, an MIT student, he joined the Air Force in 1953 and began flying "as soon as he earned his silver wings", until 1958.
www.realchange.org /dornan.htm   (906 words)

  
 "B-1 Bob" Dornan Plans to Challenge Dana Rohrabacher - TechIMO Forums
Dornan, who lost his central Orange County seat to Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) in 1996 and failed again in a 1998 rematch, paid a $1,547 filing fee Wednesday.
Dornan's plan to re-enter politics — after spending the last seven years broadcasting a radio show from his home in Virginia — surprised observers who figured that at 70, Dornan had retired from campaigning.
Dornan suggested that Rohrabacher defer to his political seniority and run in a neighboring district, which had been redrawn to include some of the younger lawmaker's territory in Los Angeles County.
www.techimo.com /forum/showthread.php?t=91227   (1237 words)

  
 Racism or election fraud? - March 3, 1998
In 1996, House Representative "B-1" Bob Dornan, the outspoken and noteworthy Clinton opponent, was narrowly defeated by Loretta Sanchez in California's 46th District.
Dornan was well known for his entertaining addresses to the House of Representatives, televised late at night on C-SPAN, which discussed his plans to initiate impeachment proceedings against Clinton.
Regardless of how badly Dornan's enemies want him out of office, the use of election fraud and the manipulation of Hispanic immigrants is certainly not the proper way to go about it.
wc.arizona.edu /papers/91/108/04_2_m.html   (762 words)

  
 Sound Politics: The Sour Lesson Of Bob Dornan's Defeat
Dornan charged that Sanchez's margin came from non-citizens, and an investigation by the House of Representatives found that 547 non-citizens had voted in the election.
Dornan, who is not the most sympathetic character, became a object of scorn, even though he was the victim of vote fraud.
It's too bad that Bob Dornan didn't gather enough evidence needed to show that fraud resulted in the loss of of his seat and that many other illegal voters were not discovered or uncovered.
www.soundpolitics.com /archives/003321.html   (3446 words)

  
 Bob Dornan - Premiere Speakers Bureau
Because of his extensive experience in national security, Dornan was chosen to serve as a member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Tactical and Technical Intelligence.
During the Clinton administration, Dornan was a key leader in the successful effort to prevent the administration from eliminating the prohibition on homosexuals in the military, and was the sponsor of legislation to codify the ban.
Bob Dornan the citizen was active in domestic civil rights during the 1960s.
premierespeakers.com /1027/index.cfm   (978 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Congressman's Disturbing Turn on the Middle East by Dena Bunis
And while Dornan says he wouldn't go so far as to say Rohrabacher is anti-Israel, he fumes at Rohrabacher's statements that both Israelis and Palestinians have committed atrocities against civilians caught up in the Mideast struggle.
Dornan is a decided underdog in a race in which elected GOP leaders, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, donors and activists, have lined up squarely behind Rohrabacher.
Dornan says he's proud that organizations such as Saffuri's "avoided me like I was radioactive" because of his unwavering support for Israel.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12096   (1436 words)

  
 dornan09   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bob Dornan says he plans to be back in his old California congressional seat by the end of this year.
Dornan spoke in Cincinnati today at the Conservative Forum's main $75-per-person breakfast fund-raiser at the Hyatt-Regency hotel.
That's enough for Dornan to believe he will win House approval for a new election in California, he hopes by November.
www.cincypost.com /news/1997/dornan091197.html   (255 words)

  
 Bob Dornan on the Environment
Bob Dornan is not only concerned about America’s spiritual beauty, but her physical beauty as well.
When the federal government was considering plans to drill for oil off the California coast, Bob Dornan saw the potential dangers posed by oil drilling in what is literally the "swimming pool" of Southern California.
Bob knew that the risks far outweighed the benefits, so he formed the "Save Our Bay Committee" to have the drilling plan killed.
www.bobdornan.com /environment.html   (162 words)

  
 Sanchez And Dornan $lug It Out - CBS News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dornan, 65, is a conservative firebrand who held the seat for nine terms until Sanchez, 38, defeated him by 987 votes in 1996.
Dornan, who believes character is the No. 1 issue in the race, has hammered away at his opponent's support for abortion rights.
She held a 16-point lead over Dornan in the most recent poll, but with more than one-third of the voters still undecided, the seat is still up for grabs.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/10/29/politics/main21312.shtml   (805 words)

  
 Bob Dornan
In 1985, Congressman Tom Downey accused Dornan of yanking his tie, calling him a "draft-dodging wimp," and threatening him with bodily harm on the floor of the House.
In November 1996, Dornan reportedly shouted at William Dougherty, member of the Orange County Republican Central Committee: "You are a disgrace to your baptism!
I said, "Having Al D'Amato leading an ethics investigation is like getting Bob Dornan to head up a mental health task force." So a few days later Dornan calls me up, and he tracks me down in some office in Hollywood.
www.nndb.com /people/549/000056381   (233 words)

  
 AllPolitics - Evidence Of Fraud? - Dec. 20, 1996
LOS ANGELES (AllPolitics, Dec. 20) -- California Rep. Bob Dornan's claims of voter fraud, on which he blames his congressional defeat last month, may be gaining new legitimacy as three state and local agencies have initiated investigations into the charges.
Dornan attributes the loss to absentee and provisional ballot fraud, non-citizen voting and insecurely handled ballot boxes, and he's demanded an investigation.
Dornan hopes that if enough irregularities are found, officials will either nullify the Nov. 5 election, or Declare him the winner.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1997/9612/20/dornan/index.html   (296 words)

  
 AllPolitics - Bob Dornan Announcement Speech
I'm very pleased that Bob Dole is reading over some of my speeches delivered on the House floor over the last 19 years.
Bob was brilliant in Iowa this week, a wonderful kick off speech in his beautiful home Bible Belt-state of Kansas.
Bob Dole has the name identification and big money from a wonderful, long federal career starting in Congress in 1961.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/republican/withdrawn/dornan.announcement.shtml   (3333 words)

  
 Nathan Callahan / Lord of the Lumpens
Now, Dornan is back again, challenging Congressman Dana Rohrbacher for his seat in the upcoming GOP primary.
Dornan was stripped of his floor privileges and expelled.
Bono said later of Dornan, “He doesn’t care when you talk to him, what you’re saying, why you are saying it, or even if you’re there.
www.nathancallahan.com /lumpen.html   (498 words)

  
 BOB BARR: The Rush Limbaugh Award For Excellence in Conservative Hypocrisy
Bob Barr worked for the CIA in the 70's and was appointed as a US Attorney in drug enforcement by Ronald Reagan in 1986.
Bob Barr, an infamous supporter of radical anti-abortion groups such as Operation Rescue, encouraged his second wife to have an abortion.
As was originally documented by Hustler Magazine, Bob Barr not only knew his wife was going to abort one of their children; he coerced her into doing it AND he paid for it.
rush_awards.tripod.com /bobbarr.html   (963 words)

  
 Dornan's Special Orders Speech
Dornan's claims that the US government had identified by name the Caucasians responsible for the torture of Americans in Hanoi are not accurate.
Dornan's comments; it is only the portion of the text that contains some of Dornan's assertions that US intelligence knew who the "Cubans" are and his attacks on Bob Destatte.
Dornan's claims re: Destatte are substantial misrepresentations of fact.
www.miafacts.org /special_orders.htm   (1031 words)

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