I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

Swalwell narrowly defeated Stark by just under 10000 votes. I may have dishonored the Commander-in-Chief but I think he’s done pretty well to dishonor himself without any help from me. Stark grew up as a Republican but his opposition to the Vietnam War led him to switch parties in the mid-1960s.

Congressman after Jack Brooks (D-Texas) to lose a general election. He was also the dean of California's 55-member Congressional delegation. Fortney Hillman "Pete" Stark Jr.