March 10, 2010
Republican Senate hopeful Tom Campbell just doesn’t seem to get it. He is irreparably harmed by his well-documented anti-Israel votes when he was in Congress, and his support for and donations from Muslim terrorist organizations.
During last week’s first debate between the three GOP Senate hopefuls, Campbell was allowed an inordinate amount of time to “explain” his troubling history and could not. Campbell offered at various times in the debate that he “didn’t know” who the people and groups were or what they believed, and at one point suggested that because the events had happened “more than 10 years ago,” that somehow they were not significant.
The San Jose Mercury News has produced more proof today that Campbell did in fact know about the background of the groups and individuals and strongly advocated for them anyway. Campbell tries to explain again and still gets tripped up in the facts and his mis-statements.
It is time for Campbell to recognize this campaign is OVER for him and a future in public office is no longer likely.
March 7, 2010: “California GOP Senate Candidate Tom Campbell’s Jihadist Friends”
Tom Campbell’s financial ties to terrorist organizations, multiple examples of stands he took and statements he made in favor of shadowy Islamic organizations, combined with his documented record of votes against Israel, is not anything he can recover from now or ever in California politics. Campbell is done, though of course he won’t recognize it until much later. His Quixotic run for the Senate is a waste of time and resources when the GOP really needs to get solidly behind a conservative, stick with him and go on to beat Barbara Boxer.
There was even more damning evidence against Tom Campbell presented by Red County in the last day. Tom, how bad must it get for you to quit this race?
RedCounty.com’s Steve Richmond: “Tom Campbell’s Jihadist Friends” March 6, 2010:
“Tom Campbell has stated publicly on many occasions that he has a relationship with Sami Al-Arian – an individual with known ties to the Islamic Jihad who pled guilty to conspiring with a terrorist organization as early as the late 1980s. Al-Arian donated to Campbell’s 2000 campaign in an effort to buy influence in Washington to repeal provisions of the 1996 Anti-Terrorism And Effective Death Penalty Act.
In fact, the relationship Campbell developed with Al-Arian was so strong that Campbell intervened in a legal matter on behalf of Al-Arian’s family in 2000. Later, when Al-Arian was being fired by the University of South Florida as a result of his inflammatory comments and questionable connections, Campbell wrote a letter on his behalf protesting the university’s action – despite charges that Al-Arian was aiding and abetting terrorists.
Another $1,000 donor to Campbell’s 2000 U.S. Senate campaign was American Muslim Council member Abdurahman Alamoudi. After Alamoudi spoke out in support of terrorist organizations, Campbell refused to return the money, saying that he felt comfortable with Alamoudi’s position. In contrast, George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton returned contributions they had received from Alamoudi and related parties.
In 2003, Alamoudi was caught carrying $340,000 in cash through an airport. When searched, authorities found that his electronic organizer held the names of six people who had been linked to al-Qaida financing. Alamoudi was brought to trial and pled guilty to immigration fraud and illegal business dealings with Libya. He also confessed to playing a part in an unsuccessful assassination plot on Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah. The plotters had hoped to destabilize Saudi Arabia with the prince’s death. And in 2005, authorities discovered that Alamoudi had also helped raise money for al-Qaida in the United States.
The list goes on. On February 13, 2000, Muthanna Al-Hanooti of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) contributed $2,000 to Campbell’s Senate campaign. Eight years later, Al-Hanooti was arrested for spying on the U.S. Congress for Saddam Hussein. Hanooti had even attempted to broker a secret deal with members of Congress to stop the war in Iraq from happening.
Nehad Awad, the current executive director of CAIR, contributed $2,000 dollars to Campbell’s Senate campaign in 2000. Awad and his group have been criticized for supporting both Hamas and other radical violence by Muslim extremists.
One thing is clear: Campbell’s relationship with Sami Al-Arian was not an isolated one. Given Campbell’s recorded ties to other such extremists, Californians can only wonder if Al-Arian, Alamoudi, Al-Hanooti and Awad represent only the tip of the iceberg.
Although he has ardently defended himself on these issues, Tom Campbell has not denounced these individuals or his relationship with them. Furthermore, his explanations have been inconsistent and leave the door open to further question.”
See complete story HERE on Red County.
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The debate Friday, March 5 on a Sacramento radio station between Campbell, Fiorina and Devore did Campbell no favors. He came off as whiny, and was completely unapologetic for all the findings on his anti-Israel votes (” that was 10 years ago..”) or his connections to the terrorist groups. Listen to debate here.
More soon on Carly Fiorina’s dirty laundry which has turned her campaign toxic and will ensure her loss to incumbent Boxer should Fiorina be the nominee this fall.
Support Chuck DeVore, the true conservative for U.S. Senate in California.
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California Senate Candidate Tom Campbell: “Anti-Israel, Jihad Appeaser” published February 28, 2010
Tom Campbell is a classic “paper tiger”–Stanford-educated, good on paper, can’t govern his way out of a paper bag.
Tom Campbell is a RINO-whiner tax-raising, political “dilettante.” Campbell is budget advisor to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a dubious “accomplishment”, since California has a budget deficit of at least $21 billion and 12.5% unemployment.
Campbell showed his political wimp-tardiness once again last month by announcing that he was going to run as a Republican for California governor and then abruptly placed tail firmly between legs and backed out, to run instead for U.S. Senate. He denies that he was pressured to do so by the money-loaded Meg Whitman campaign, which another GOP candidate, Steve Poizner has accused of trying to “buy” him to quit so that ebay former CEO Whitman can run unopposed in the primary.
Tom Campbell was a California Congressman in the late 80s and 90s.
Into this cauldron of thin Campbell’s “soup” there are now new revelations that Campbell is an anti-Semite,and anti-Israel and has received large donations from terrorist Muslim groups which blame the U.S. government for 9/11. He even testified before Congress in support of these groups.
Combed-over-and-over-again candidates like Tom Campbell we do not need. Read Pamela Geller’s and Phil Klein’s coverage on the depth of Tom Campbell’s troubling ties to the radical elements, including GOP front-man Grover Norquist,who seek to destroy this country HERE and HERE. Please make use of all links to source articles, there is much to know.
What is Campbell’s response to all this? If you read the above thoroughly, it frankly will not matter.
However, it is interesting to note that even the rabbi whom Campbell calls upon to defend him from the anti-Israel, anti-semite allegations, says Campbell’s votes show they are true:
“Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said he would disagree with anyone who would describe Campbell as hostile toward Jews.
Even so, he pointed out instances in which Campbell voted against the interests of Israel while in Congress. As examples, he noted that Campbell voted to cut foreign aid to Israel and that he voted against a largely symbolic resolution urging the U.S. to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
“I don’t consider him to be an anti-Semite, but he is clearly not sympathetic to the state of Israel, which is a core issue for the Jewish community,” Cooper said.”
Tom Campbell’s “soup” has only the letters “P and C” and it’s mmmmmmm…mmmmm….bad. Dangerously bad.
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Chuck DeVore is the true conservative in this Senate race. He has the clean resume that will put Barbara Boxer to shame. DeVore spoke last weekend at the CPAC convention in Washington D.C., spent many hours with bloggers from around the country who appreciate his tax-reducing, common sense, constitutional approach. DeVore has been endorsed by Fox News’ Glen Beck, talk show host Mark Levin, and new media mogul Andrew Breitbart.
Carly Fiorina, the fired Hewlett Packard CEO who hacked into her board of directors’ emails, is also in this primary race and has too much personal and professional “baggage” to be successful against the dirty slime campaign that Senator Boxer will run this fall. Fiorina is spending her own millions, but she will fail in a general election against Boxer. Besides all the above, Fiorina says stupid, weird stuff when she goes “off-script.” The idea of Fiorina debating the has-been Boxer “Call me Ma’am” for our senate seat is Saturday Night Live skit-making material. Don’t go there.
