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	Pete McCloskey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McCloskey was the first Republican Congressman to call for the Impeachment of Former President Richard Nixon after the Watergate Scandal and the Saturday Night Massacre.
		McCloskey, who served with Robertson in Korea, made claims that Robertson was spared combat duty when his powerful father, U.S. Senator Absalom Willis Robertson, intervened on his behalf.
		On January 23, 2006, Pete McCloskey announced at a press conference in Lodi, California, that he will return to the political arena by running against Representative Richard W. Pombo (R-Tracy) in the Republican Party's Primary election for California's Eleventh Congressional district (map).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pete_McCloskey (697 words)

	CinnamonStillwell.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		McCloskey held up Arafat as an example of democracy in the Arab world, despite the fact that his "elections" were hardly democratic and his corruption was legendary.
		In the interview, McCloskey implied that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was involved in a variety of nefarious plots involving the murder of Alex Odeh, head of the southern California chapter of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee.
		McCloskey insisted that "the ADL should be made to register as an agent of a foreign government," and we all know which foreign government he’s referring to.
	cinnamonstillwell.com /Pete-McCloskey.html (764 words)

	Pete McCloskey wants Earth Day to change the world -- again (April 16, 2003)
		McCloskey and other original Earth Day founders, including former Senator Gaylord Nelson, and former Stanford student body president Denis Hayes, are reconnecting to create an even greater event -- this year in September.
		McCloskey remembers with glee how the student leaders targeted a "Dirty Dozen" of legislators who had bad environmental records and were vulnerable in their home districts.
		McCloskey says, huge new challenges have arisen in the last 30 years -- climate change, persistent organic pollutants, oil drilling in fragile environments, and so on.
	www.almanacnews.com /morgue/2003/2003_04_16.pete.html (579 words)

	United States presidential election, 1972 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite polls showing that he had a strong lead over any potential Democratic nominee, President Nixon was challenged in the GOP primaries by two congressmen from both sides of the political spectrum, the liberal Pete McCloskey of California and the conservative John Ashbrook of Ohio.
		McCloskey ran as an anti-war and anti-Nixon candidate, while Ashbrook opposed Nixon's détente policies towards the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union.
		In the New Hampshire primary McCloskey's platform of peace garnere 11% of the vote to Nixon's 83%, with Ashbrook receiving 6%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1972 (1353 words)

	The Dispatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johnson contends McCloskey is out of step with the times and compared him to the fictional Hollywood character Austin Powers, implying that both were "still in the 1970s." In 1972, McCloskey ran a similar ethics-based campaign against President Richard Nixon.
		McCloskey readily admits he and his wife changed addresses from his ranch in Yolo County to a Lodi apartment in order to be eligible for the district election.
		McCloskey asserts he upholds the traditional values of the party, including "fiscal responsibility, limited government and environmental balance," and is therefore more of a Republican than Pombo.
	www.gilroydispatch.com /news/contentview.asp?c=178402 (1431 words)

	Say No to Pombo: Pete McCloskey's Candidacy
		It seems like a lot of people feel that McCloskey is a better candidate than any of the Democrats in the race, and take that to mean that that McCloskey has a better shot at beating Pombo in the primary than the Democrats have a shot at beating Pombo in the general election.
		But even if it is granted that McCloskey is a better candidate, it only implies that McCloskey would be more able to win a general election against Pombo than the other Democrats, not that he has a better shot of winning the Republican primary than the Democrats have a shot at winning the general.
		McCloskey prefers to meet locals in small groups, not in the presence of media so that discussions will be more frank and open.
	saynotopombo.blogspot.com /2006/01/pete-mccloskeys-candidacy.html (4828 words)

	tBlog - The Most Sane View of Pete McCloskey - Mine
		You know, it strikes me that Rep. McCloskey's grand plan is to curry favor with incoherent purveyors of malice and hatred using a barrage of flattery, especially recognition of their "value", their "importance", their "educational mission", and other mindless nonsense.
		McCloskey's habitués claim to have no choice but to hijack the word "consubstantiationist" and use it to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior.
		McCloskey, on the other hand, believes that every featherless biped, regardless of intelligence, personal achievement, moral character, sense of responsibility, or sanity, should be given the power to make our lives an endless treadmill of government interferences while providing few real benefits to our health and happiness.
	lynnkramer.tblog.com /post/1969895926 (3804 words)

	Pete McCloskey, 78, considers a quixotic quest
		McCloskey, a Republican who lives in Yolo County, is one of the more interesting political figures of the last quarter of the 20th century.
		Last year, McCloskey and nine other former GOP congressmen began the Revolt of the Elders, which is dedicated to resurrecting the party's moderate wing.
		McCloskey says he is aware of the hurdles, which is why he's been hesitant to pull the trigger on a challenge.
	www.recordnet.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/NEWS01/511130329/1001 (644 words)

	ADL Found Guilty Of Spying By California Court
		McCloskey, the attorney in the case, represented one of three civil lawsuits filed in San Francisco against the ADL in 1993.
		In the McCloskey case, the ADL agreed to pay (from its annual multi-million budget) $50,000 to each of the three plaintiffs - Jeffrey Blankfort, Steve Zeltzer and Anne Poirier - who continued to press charges against the ADL, despite a continuing series of judicial roadblocks that forced 14 of the original defendants to withdraw.
		The third ADL victim in the McCloskey case, Poirier, was not involved in any activities related to Israel or the Middle East.
	www.rense.com /general24/adl.htm (500 words)

	Half Moon Bay Memories & El Granada Observer » Paul "Pete" McCloskey
		One of Pete McCloskey’s successful political strategies was to walk through neighborhoods, knocking on doors, introducing himself, chatting with the voters.
		McCloskey has strong ties to Pacifica where his grandfather, Henry Harrison McCloskey, also an attorney, built a castle by the sea, one of the now-suburban coastside town’s most fascinating landmarks.
		In 1908 the McCloskey family, including son, Paul, the father of future Rep. “Pete” McCloskey, moved into the castle they christened “Bendemier”, a solitary mountain-top retreat with spectacular ocean views that remain to this day.
	www.halfmoonbaymemories.com /category/paul-pete-mccloskey (555 words)

	Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog) » Nick Lampson, Pete McCloskey, and “the Elders” vrs. Tom DeLay
		Nick Lampson, Pete McCloskey, and “the Elders” vrs.
		Former Congressman Pete McCloskey (R-California), announced that he is meeting with “Republican elders” to defeat DeLay.
		McCloskey was one of ten erstwhile Congress critters who attacked House ethics rules regarding DeLay.
	www.rightsided.org /index.php?p=10121 (777 words)

	Tracy Press, Tracy CA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		McCloskey told Rotarians that he and his allies lobbied Congress last year to tighten up ethical standards that they say were relaxed in recent years in order to protect former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
		McCloskey blasted Pombo’s efforts to reverse a rule that would have required a bipartisan, majority vote of the House Ethics Committee to initiate an ethics investigation against DeLay.
		McCloskey said Pombo and John Doolittle, R-Roseville, are “DeLay Republicans” who have benefited from the fundraising abuses that led to DeLay’s indictment and resignation from the position of House majority leader.
	www.tracypress.com /local/2006-02-07-McCloskey.php (429 words)

	Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pete told the lawyer of his son's torture, and of the surgeon's theory that the attack occurred sometime while John was in custody of the Rockbridge County Sheriff's Office or Western State Hospital in Staunton.
		If the McCloskeys' frustration could be traced to two sources, they would be these - that their son died a horrible death, and no one was ever held responsible.
		McCloskey's record," she added, when he visited in September 1997, almost three years after John was there.
	www.dartcenter.org /dartaward/2000/winner_story_05.html (3258 words)

	GOP green group backs Pombo rival (Pete McCloskey) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Republicans for Environmental Protection has endorsed former Rep. Pete McCloskey (R-Calif.) for the GOP nomination in California’s 11th Congressional District instead of the Republican incumbent, Rep. Richard Pombo.
		McCloskey served in Congress from December 1967 until January 1983 and unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1972.
		McCloskey has always been one of the PLO's biggest cheerleaders, and greatest enemies of Israel in the US, going back to his days in Congress when he was, in my opinion, on the PLO payroll.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1604819/posts (1382 words)

	Scoop: Pete McCloskey Talks about GOP Corruption - IV
		Pete McCloskey: I suppose I tried to protect a few porpoises when the tuna fishermen were catching the porpoises in their nets.
		Pete McCloskey: Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.
		Pete McCloskey: The father of Republican environmentalism is Teddy Roosevelt, who, with Gifford Pinchot, started to set aside wilderness and national forests and national parks.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0603/S00007.htm (2561 words)

	Pete McCloskey, Speaker on Environmental Politics & Environmental Law
		As a fifteen-year veteran of the U.S. Congress, Pete McCloskey was one of the lead authors of many of today's major environmental laws.
		McCloskey gained international attention for making the first House of Representatives speech calling for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon for obstruction of justice, and he ran for the Presidency in 1972 challenging Nixon's Vietnam War policies.
		For more information about Pete McCloskey and his speaking topics, experience, fees and availability, please call our toll-free number, 866-658-4848, or send us an email message here.
	www.ecospeakers.com /speakers/mccloskeyp.html (211 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - One Advantage of the Republican Party, 1982:
		IMO though McCloskey is unacceptable as a candidate because (a) he’s a RINO, (b) he’s already served 16 years in the House (I refuse to vote to reelect a candidate once they’ve already served 12), (c) what I know of him indicates that he’s wrong on most issues, and (d) he’s nearly 80 years old.
		Pete McCloskey was on radio in the SF area today, interviewed and fielding call-in questions with another candidate in the 11th district primary.
		McCloskey wrote a letter to IHR in an effort to help them out with their strategy, noting that they would find more mainstream support if they only minimized the Holocaust (e.g., tried to argue that Jews were exaggerating the number, as McCloskey himself explained he was trying to do) rather than deny it outright.
	volokh.com /posts/1149097531.shtml (13429 words)

	Carl Pope: Taking the Initiative: Who's Afraid of Pete McCloskey? - Sierra Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And McCloskey is much more the kind of Republican that thousands of the newer Republicans in Pombo's district are used to -- mainstream, economically conservative, and socially liberal.
		But even if McCloskey just pulls a hefty vote, if those voters either switch to the Democrat in November or stay home, Pombo may be coming back to his ranch.
		McCloskey has great personal presence and raises the debate to the most basic core beliefs, where Pombo is hollow.
	www.sierraclub.org /carlpope/2006/01/whos-afraid-of-pete-mccloskey.asp (777 words)

	Our Town: Mad Republicans (September 08, 2004)
		Pete McCloskey is a legendary former congressman who represented Palo Alto from 1967 through 1982.
		McCloskey said his congressional office became a meeting place for many of the anti-war vets, some of them in wheelchairs.
		McCloskey gained national note, or notoriety, when he spoke out forcefully against the war and his president more than 30 years ago.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2004/2004_09_08.town08lion1.shtml (694 words)

	CAMPAIGN 2006: 11th Congressional District Republican Primary / ENVIRONMENTAL PUSH AND PULL / CHALLENGER: Pete ...
		McCloskey quit the race after a few months to seek re-election to Congress and received the vote of one delegate to Nixon's 1,347 at the 1972 Republican convention.
		McCloskey goes into the school's office, leans on the front counter and chats with the school principal, pleased to discover she's a Republican.
		McCloskey thinks that as the only Republican on the teachers' association endorsement committee, Rust had to strong-arm the Democrats on the committee to endorse him over one of Pombo's Democratic challengers.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/04/MNGAKJ84K31.DTL (1329 words)

	Off the Kuff: McCloskey's mission
		Pete McCloskey, a former Congressman from California, was in town this weekend to scope out a primary challenge to Tom DeLay.
		He met Sunday with Michael Fjetland, who was defeated by DeLay in Republican primaries in 2000 and 2002 and as an independent in the 2004 general election.
		McCloskey is one of nine former congressmen who have formed an informal group he called the "revolt of the elders," to oppose congressmen who they think are guilty of ethics violations.
	www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/005387.html (253 words)

	Pete McCloskey for Congress—11th District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		McCloskey says Pombo is in his cross-hairs because of his close ties to tainted Washington insiders and his fierce crusade to weaken the landmark Endangered Species Act, which McCloskey helped write nearly 35 years ago.
		McCloskey is running in a GOP-leaning district that meanders through Bay Area and Central Valley suburbs, including Morgan Hill, Pleasanton and Lodi.
		McCloskey said Friday that he has never questioned the existence of the Holocaust, and the 2000 quote referred to a debate over the number of people killed.
	www.petemccloskey.com /press/story02_20_06A.html (949 words)

	Almanac: Pete McCloskey fundraiser in Portola Valley March 19 (March 8, 2006)
		Former congressman Pete McCloskey is returning to his Peninsula roots to preach his message and to raise money in his latest crusade, to unseat Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, in California's 11th congressional district.
		McCloskey will talk issues at a fundraiser in Portola Valley Sunday, March 19, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the home of Ruth Anne and Walter Bortz at 167 Bolivar Lane.
		McCloskey's environmental message may resonate nationally, he faces an uphill battle to defeat a seven-term incumbent in a Central Valley district that extends from U.S. 101 south of San Jose to the Sierra foothills.
	www.almanacnews.com /story.php?story_id=1255 (237 words)

	Scripps Howard News Service
		McCloskey acknowledged he didn't really want to make the campaign himself, but when he and other like-minded Republicans couldn't find another challenger to the seven-term incumbent, he decided to become a candidate again.
		McCloskey hasn't gone out of his way to court the conservative Republicans who'll be casting ballots in June.
		McCloskey has proposed a series of 12 debates with Pombo, but Johnson said none is going to happen.
	www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=POMBO-01-24-06 (749 words)

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