RICHARD POMBO: A REAL HERO
You never know what you are going to find as you sift through almost 50 websites early each morning – that’s a big part of the fun of putting together the main page of the FlashReport each morning. Will it be a crisis? A scandal? A major piece of breaking news? Well, today I was extremely pleased to see a major profile in the San Diego Union Tribune of one of California’s greatest assets, Congressman Richard Pombo, who hails from the Stockton area.
I’ve known Richard Pombo since he was ‘just’ a rancher, with his modest 500 acre spread in Tracy. Pombo is just the kind of politician that you would expect a conservative like me to really like. With the strongest foundations possible — his faith and his great family — Pombo went off to Washington to try and make a difference. His commitment to voters was straight from his conscience and heart-felt beliefs — to restore American’s federal government to the institution envisioned by its founders – a limited federal government that would fulfill its appropriate functions, but then leave the process of making this country great exactly where it belongs, with the people. Since his election, Pombo has had a razor-sharp focus on just this goal.
We all hear about politicians who go off to the Beltway and ‘go native’ on us — eventually ‘morphing’ into Washington’s representative to their district, instead of the other way around. Richard Pombo is the Congressman we all hope for, one that has never forgotten the reason why he ran for public office in the first place. Take the time to read the profile today, and join me in being glad that we have real American heroes like Pombo serving in the House of Representatives.
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