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McClintock, Ose spar in debate
By Peter Hecht - phecht@sacbee.com
Last Updated 4:04 pm PDT Monday, March 31, 2008
State Sen. Tom McClintock, left, and former Rep. Doug Ose, right, listen to Todd Stenhouse, campaign manager for Charlie Brown, speak from the podium Monday at a candidates' forum sponsored by the Soroptimist Club of Auburn. The candidates are running for the 4th Congressional District seat. Brian Baer / bbaer@sacbee.com
State Sen. Tom McClintock accused former Rep. Doug Ose on Monday of being a champion of pork-barrel "earmarks" during three terms in Congress, as Ose depicted McClintock as a professional politician helping himself to pay raises and legislative financial perks.
At an informal candidates' forum in Auburn, the two top GOP contenders and district outsiders thus welcomed each other into the race for the 4th Congressional District seat being vacated by Rep. John Doolittle.
Ose and McClintock faced off for the first time at a luncheon question-and-answer session sponsored by the Soroptimist Club of Auburn. Also appearing was upstart Republican candidate Suzanne Jones and a spokesman for Democratic candidate Charlie Brown.
McClintock, a state lawmaker from Thousand Oaks running for a congressional seat 400 miles from his home district, portrayed himself as a leading fiscal conservative and depicted Ose as part of a "Republican Congress that voted for the biggest entitlements since the Great Society."
He said Ose "was a champion" of the congressional spending and a proliferation of earmarks that are "destroying our national treasury."
Ose, a wealthy developer who said he refused pay raises in Congress, assailed McClintock for taking legislative pay raises and per diem income for out-of-district expenses while living in Elk Grove, just miles from the state Capitol.
"There is a clear difference between a businessman who serves the public and a professional politician who serves himself," Ose said.
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