Ammar Campa-Najjar Archives - California Globe

Darrell Issa, Judicial Watch Sue California Over Mail-In Ballot Order

May 23, 2020 7:49 am

On Thursday, former Congressman and current Congressional candidate Darrell Issa sued California along with conservative political accountability group Legal Watch over California’s decision to send mail-in ballots to every registered voter in California in November. Issa and Judicial Watch challenge...

2020 Q1 Campaign Finance: What 50th Congressional District Candidates Raised and Spent

April 15, 2020 2:06 amApril 15, 2020 1:47 pm

Last year at this time, the 50th Congressional District, a large swath of land that stretches from the San Diego suburbs to the outskirts of the Salton Sea, was considered a lock for former Representative Duncan Hunter. However a scandal...

Congressman Duncan Hunter Changes Plea to Guilty Over Campaign Fund Misuse

December 3, 2019 3:33 pmDecember 4, 2019 1:12 pm

The campaign finance scandal trial of Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican serving the 50th Congressional district in San Diego, took an unusual turn Monday as he changed his plea to guilty. 60 criminal counts and plane tickets for a...

Republicans Aim To Be Hunter Killers

September 27, 2019 10:45 amSeptember 27, 2019 12:10 pm

In California’s 50th district, Republicans Darrell Issa, Carl DeMaio and Brian Jones are challenging incumbent Duncan Hunter, who faces trial on corruption charges. Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, who lost to Hunter by only 3.4 percentage points last year, is also in...

Duncan Hunter Dodges Democratic Challenger and Federal Indictment

November 8, 2018 1:35 pmNovember 10, 2018 6:08 am

Despite facing a federal indictment charge relating to personal spending of campaign money, Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-San Diego) has locked down a sixth straight seat in the House of Representatives. Hunter was able to prevail not only against the charges,...

Family Ties Complicate Both Sides of Messy Congressional Race

October 15, 2018 1:00 amOctober 16, 2018 11:13 am

When Duncan Hunter Jr, the Republican Congressman in CD50, was indicted on August 21 on multiple charges of wire fraud and falsifying records, the odds of a Democratic pick-up in a solidly red district suddenly multiplied. But that was before...

California 50 Pits Indicted Republican Against Palestinian-Mexican

September 17, 2018 6:15 amSeptember 18, 2018 9:19 am

With 50-plus Congressional races in the state, a few of them are bound to be strange. In the mountains and desert just east of San Diego, a close race is brewing and it’s shaping up to be one of the...