Aussie hired by (Calif.) GOP embroiled in immigration lawsuit

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Michael Kamburowski, the Australian immigrant hired as a top official in the California Republican Party, was ordered deported in 2001, jailed three years later for visa violations -- and has filed a $5 million wrongful arrest lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to U.S. District Court documents.

Kamburowski was named in March to be the chief operating officer of the California GOP. He is responsible for the state party's multimillion-dollar budget and oversees campaign funds and financing for the nation's largest state GOP organization.

As the state GOP's new operating officer, the 35-year-old Kamburowski was handpicked for the post by state Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring, who became party chief in February.

Kamburowski is a former registered lobbyist for Americans for Tax Reform and a top operative for the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, both founded by conservative activist Grover Norquist. Nehring -- also a former senior adviser and consultant to Norquist's Washington, D.C., operation -- worked with Kamburowski at Americans for Tax Reform in the 1990s.

News of Kamburowski's troubled immigration past comes on the heels of revelations in The Chronicle earlier this month that the state GOP used a highly sought-after H1B visa to hire another immigrant as a top consultant.

Read more: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/24/MNGIUQKUID1.DTL

[jamesinca]

1. HA HA

I hope this makes them look like the idiots that they are. Make them look like the racist pigs that they are with their immigration stance that they take. Let the illegal alien white boy in, but rail against the illegal alien brown people. Hypocrites!!! Strong on national security my ass.

[SemperEadem]

2. send his criminal ass back to Australia

he'll probably take a plane back to Mexico city and cross the boarder in San Deigo.

[tanyev]

3. Running out of home-grown fascists?

[cascadiance]

4. Bwaahhaahaa!

Here's another article on this!

http://www.nysun.com/article/57203

California Flash Report has a lot of Rethugs fretting on this news! Read it and weep suckas!

http://www.flashreport.org/blog.php?#b2007062500150317

[mitchum]

5. But...but...but...he does the work that Americans won't do!

See ya later, you antipodean scumbag

[pinniped]

6. That piece of garbage resigned.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/25/GOP.TMP

Michael Kamburowski, an Australian immigrant who served as the California Republican Party's chief operating officer, abruptly resigned Sunday -- less than 24 hours after The Chronicle reported he had been ordered deported in 2001, jailed in connection with the order, and now has a $5 million wrongful arrest lawsuit pending against U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials.

more:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/25/GOP.TMP