(LA Times) The men and their campaigns could not be more different.
One, a conservative, white former Marine who was elected to Congress in the same inland San Diego County area his father represented for 28 years, is fighting federal charges that he misspent $250,000 in campaign contributions.
The other, a progressive Mexican Palestinian American who served in the Obama White House, has had to disavow the actions of his grandfather, a man who took part in the terrorist attack that killed 11 Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, fighting claims that he’s a security risk, has taken his message national to outlets such as Rolling Stone and MSNBC, and even into the freezer: Ben & Jerry’s created an ice cream flavor for him.
