Pombo Time - New York Times

So glad he's not my Rep. anymore. My condolences to family and friends in Manteca...

Richard Pombo has had a hard time keeping himself out of the news lately. In late September, a watchdog group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Mr. Pombo, a seven-term House member from California, one of the 13 most corrupt politicians in Congress. Three weeks later the Center for Public Integrity accused him of taking junkets paid for by the International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources - the kind of organization, heavy with corporate donors, in which the word 'conservation' is a wink to the wise. And last week the League of Conservation Voters accused him of selling out to a long list of corporate interests.