CA-11: Cook Dishes Dirt on GOP Candidates
Charlie Cook reported on the state of the race in California's 11th Congressional District at the Cook Political Report.
Goehring boasted about his use of undocumented labor.
On presumptive front-runner by way of self-financing, and Richard Pombo clone, Brad Goehring:
In 2006, a newspaper quoted Goehring, a farm labor contractor, as saying he suspected 40 percent of his workers were illegal immigrants, but that they needed laws to ensure access to cheap immigrant labor because "Americans simply won't reliably do the work."
The spate of candidates don't get any much better for conservatives from there.
Amador settled a sexual harassment suit.
Tony Amador, the former U.S. Marshal, is viewed by establishment Republicans as a "lazy candidate" and his shady private settlement after a former colleague accused him of sexual harassment won't help him either.
Several Republicans privately suggest that Amador will be a lazy candidate, and others note he carries some personal baggage. In 1993, the Washington Post reported that Amador, then a presidentially appointed member of the federal Merit Systems Protection Board, was accused of sexually harassing a female colleague and then firing her, though Amador denied the allegations and the parties reached a private settlement.
As of this may, Republicans hold a razor thin margin of .45% over Democrats with a large "decline-to-state" electorate.
November 9th, 2009 - 11:42
It seems that Tony Amador was being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General for misconduct. That investigation resulted in a secondary investigation for discrimination relating to employment practices. Amador was then the subject of an investigation by the Internal Affairs division of the Marshals Service. The allegations include that Amador denied several qaulified individuals employment because they were not Latino. Amador also damaged current employees careers by making promotion decisions based on the same criteria. When the internal investigation was initiated, Amador was notified that he would be interviewed. Amador abruptly retired on a Monday in the middle of a pay period which was the same day internal affairs had scheduled his interview as part of the investigation. As far as other Republicnas suggesting that Amador will be a lazy candidate; he had teh same reputation as U.S. Marshal.