Peter Cavanaugh: Take off, McClintock

Tom McClintock has haunted the halls of Congress long enough. For more than three decades, this classic spectre of a self-serving career politician has known nothing but a relatively sheltered existence with pension benefits and a lifestyle guaranteed and subsidized by hard-working taxpayers.

Since 2009, he has earned the dubious distinction of being the most reactionary representative on the Tea Party right, whose main claim to fame was shutting down Yosemite last fall.

Art Moore is a hard-driving, combat-tested, conservative Republican who gets my vote next Tuesday. He led our troops in war. I will be proud having him lead our 4th Congressional District in Washington.

Election Night, let’s stick our heads out the window listening for howls of joy or scowls of scorn from winners or losers aimlessly wandering through the night – hoping for one particular ghostly gasp signaling the beginning of a new era in our underserved 4th Congressional District. It’s time.

This story was originally published October 30, 2014 at 1:36 PM with the headline "Peter Cavanaugh: Take off, McClintock."