I don't like Charlie Brown so this should not be considered a form of defense. He is entitled to his pension, he put the time. I don't know if he has a service related disability or not. There is nothing wrong with taking his pension and disability if that's true. If he runs and wins why not get paid for the job he will be performing. More power to him if he can make a bundle between the two or three paychecks. There is nothing unethical about it unless you want to make an issue of it because you don't like him.

Unethical, you ask? McClaintock receiving $306,000. of Per Diem over tthe last 20 years.

Dang, I don't like either candidate.

props to loomisresident on that reply.

"winston_niles," why don't you tell us who you work for. Your writing is so familiar.

I'll go first. I'm not getting paid by anybody to post this. So I really don't have any motivation to make things up. If I made things up, I would get into trouble.

Speaking of Double Dipping, poor McClintock has been caught with his fingers in the cookie jar by the Federal Elections Commission. They've been sending him warnings for months about his July Quarterly campaign finance filings being out of whack. He's had to file many amendments, and they still want to know how he spent more than he took in, but didn't account for it. Then there was that emergency "charity" donation from his state 2010 account, for $51,000 the one he has set up to run for governor next, to these so- called "charities" that were actually political issues advocacy organizations that were staffed by his own campaign consultants or bloggers, or they were church charities that were associated with a company that has given him and these certain other state legislators large lobbyist donations of money.

These other state legislators, by the way, have been paying various political "charities" associated with political advocacy groups, to lobby the public on behalf of McClintock with mail flyers, and other forms of advertising. They have also done joint appearances with McClintock and paid the consultants, the costs, ect.

It is ILLEGAL to use state campaign accounts set up for other state level campaigns for Federal office runs. These accounts serve as giant slush funds for lobbyists. If more people knew where McClintock was getting his money from, there is no way he could pass himself off as any sort of reformer. Thus we have Big Oil and Big Pharma and even Big Tobacco and Anheiser Busch Beer ( ! ) paying so - called "charities" which are really astroturf groups that are lobbying for those wedge issue state propositions. Yes, Phillip Morris Tobacco and Anheiser Busch are paying for that slate mailer trash showing up in YOUR mailbox, the stuff that's trying to smear a decorated war veteran running for Congress, or trying to hype up some sort of discrimination proposition to take away somebody's civil rights.

People should really make themselves get more familiar with where the money is coming from, and look at those state filings on CAL- Access, or don't they want to know ?

McClintock made the so - called "charity" donations to these astroturf organizations right before the 3rd Quarter filing deadline, September 30, and he actually has his flacks issue a PR release about it.

Yesterday McClintock finally filed his October quarterly report for the months of July, August, and September. McClintock IS BROKE and in DEBT. Yes, the McClintock campaign is IN DEBT because they owe over $110,000 to different vendors, and they have but $94,214 cash on hand. I am reading this right off the form.

McClintock burnt through all that money and thought he could just keep on paying consultants to lie about his opponent all through the rest of campaign season. Instead, he's a deadbeat candidate.

Is this any way to run a campaign ? Would you trust this man with your checkbook? He's only getting about 5% of his campaign donations from IN THE DISTRICT, when counted by individual donations. Who is buying our Congress District ? Who put it up for sale in the first place ?

You must have confused my post with another one you've read. I never used the word "unethical." I have no idea if this is common practice or highly unusual. That's why I was asking the questions. Does anyone know how much he makes?

Yes, I would trust Tom McClintock with my checkbook, whether the account contained $50 or $50 million - I'd sleep fine at night.

KNBC.com - Is Tom McClintock giving Southern California the finger?

March 24, 2008

The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that State Senator Tom McClintock has accepted over $300,000 to pay for on a house he owns in the area he represents, Thousand Oaks, although he lives full time with his family in Sacramento.

There is nothing illegal about this - state senators are all given this money to make it easier for them to commute between their home districts in the state capital.

The state elections code requires legislators to maintain a residence in their district, and presumes that a senator is “domiciled” where he or she is registered to vote.

The Times is critical of McClintock’s acceptance of this practice especially during the state’s budget crisis, as McClintock isn’t “domiciled” in Thousand Oaks by human standards.

While the Times focuses on the money issue, what isn’t addressed is how McClintock can truly be in touch with the community he represents if he doesn’t live there. And now, McClintock is running for Congress, to represent the 4th District, a portion of Northeast California.

Yet another community where he isn’t domiciled.

Of course, this sort of thing is common in politics. But I get the feeling that if career politicians perhaps spent more time actually living in and getting in touch with the communities they represent, they’d appreciate more about where and how tax dollars were spent, and then maybe we wouldn’t be in such a fiscal crisis.

Pot-kettle? Tom McClintock took money and accepted endorsements from the antisemitic actor Mel Gibson and from the Grand Dragon of the The Imperial Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. And Mr. Niles has the nerve to try to swift boat Col. Brown because of his military pension?

Carpetbagger tom McClintock is sounding like yet another career politico who can't run on his own policies, so he throws personal smears and false innuendos at his opponent, hoping something will stick.

Hasn't there been enough of that?

TP: You are being absolutely hilarious to call Mel Gibson anti-semitic because he insulted a cop with a Jewish name while drunk (bad behavior yes, anti-semitic??) and yet you have no problem with Obama being praised by Louis Farrukan as "The Messiah".

Do you consider Louis Farrukan anti-Semitic?