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Don't count Congressman Bob Dornan out. During nearly twenty years in the House of Representatives, the fiery Congressman from Orange County, California, earned a reputation as the most outspoken advocate for American servicemen and their families. In the face of the most difficult challenge of his political career, the former Air Force fighter has filed a petition in the House to reclaim his seat. During a February 1 interview with the U.S. Veteran Dispatch, the former Chairman of the House Military Personnel Subcommittee passionately vowed to continue his effort to overturn large scale vote fraud that tipped the balance of the most hotly contested Congressional race in the nation to his liberal Democrat opponent, Loretta Brixey-Sanchez.

Congressman Dornan's case was bolstered by independent investigative reports by both the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register that found a number of non-citizens who illegally voted for the Democratic ticket. Dornan's attorney, Michael Schroeder, claims that as many as 3,500 potentially invalid ballots have been identified, including about 1,000 cast by non-citizens or convicted felons and 1,985 in excess of the number of persons who signed up to vote. For example, in one precinct the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR) obtained a list of 18 illegal immigrants who voted, compiled by a social worker on duty at the polling place. The Orange County office of the Registrar of Voters claims to have found only 11 who double voted. However, the registrar has refused to consider the large number of non-citizens who voted and the illegal chain of custody of absentee ballots that were delivered to polling places by radical Hispanic activists. As a result of newspaper reports of illegalities, investigators from the office of the California Secretary of State and the Orange County District Attorney raided the Santa Ana office of Hermandad Mexicana Nacional on January 14.

The Los Angeles Times randomly interviewed 64 Mexican emigrants registered by Hermandad before they received citizenship, a felony under U.S. law, of which 19 emigrants illegally voted against Dornan in the election. The organization, which was contracted by the Clinton administration to assist the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to register new citizens under the controversial "Citizenship USA" program, was founded in 1974 by a self proclaimed "militant Marxist-Leninist," Hermandad Mexicana registered some 585 voters in the 46th District, most of whom have yet to be investigated for ballot legality.

Hermandad was not the only radical leftist organization hired by the Clinton administration or Democratic Party to mobilize the Hispanic community, which comprises more than fifty percent of Dornan's District. The ingenue victor, Loretta Brixey-Sanchez, admittedly convinced the Democratic Campaign Committee to bring in the radical pro-Sandinista organization, Neighbor to Neighbor, from San Francisco to devise and coordinate a program to get "occasional Hispanic voters" - many of whom may not be U.S. citizens - to the polls on election day.

While Brixey-Sanchez celebrated her dubious victory, Shelley Moskowitz, the Neighbor to Neighbor political director in Washington, D.C., cited revenge for Dornan's support of the Contra's struggle for democracy in Nicaragua. "We are tickled to see him (Dornan) retired," said Moskowitz, "and to elect a Latina to represent the District."

The most obvious casualty caused by the Brixey-Sanchez election coup is the violation of the integrity of United States Constitutional voting process. "I will continue my campaign to overturn the fraud in my district," Dornan vows. "There is still much unfinished work to account for our POW/MIAs. What's at stake is the precedent - for better or worse - that will be set for future elections throughout California and in many other parts of the country."