Enviro Groups Ready For Pombo
By Reid Wilson
just before the '06 elections
That year, 4 environmental groups assaulted Pombo, the House Resources Committee chair, with ads blasting his stance on the Endangered Species Act, his ties to oil lobbyists and even local traffic problems. Now, those same groups are gearing up for a fight.
"We're not about to stand by and watch Pombo grab his carpetbag and return to Congress a mere four years after we worked so hard to oust him," Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund pres. Rodger Schlickeisen said in a statement. "If he runs, we'll be there to remind voters about his corrupt record and why he was booted out of Congress in the first place."
In a statement of his own, League of Conservation Voters political affairs chief Tony Massaro slammed Pombo for moving into a new district and previewed attack lines tying him, once again, to Pres. Bush.
Defenders of Wildlife spent $2.1M against Pombo and sent 8 paid staffers to the district to campaign on behalf of Rep. Jerry McNerney (D). The Sierra Club and its political committee spent $545K on the race, while LCV spent $250K and Clean Water Action chipped in hundreds of thousands more.
GOP strategists are notably unenthusiastic about Pombo's candidacy. Though the district in which he would run, currently held by Rep. George Radanovich (R), is more conservative than his old seat, environmental groups spending money against Pombo could force a cash-strapped GOP to spend desperately needed cash in a seat another GOPer would more easily carry.
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