Richard Pombo

Richard Pombo's Comeback Bid Founders

Justin Elliott | June 9, 2010, 9:14AM

Former Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA)

The comeback hopes of ethically-challenged former congressman Richard Pombo were dashed Tuesday, with the anti-environmentalist from California coming in a disappointing third place in the GOP primary in the state's 19th district.

Pombo was ousted from Congress in 2006 with assists by a big push from conservationist groups and his own myriad ethical problems. (TPMmuckraker's ethics retrospective on Pombo is here.)

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