<<Dornan has been a loose cannon since his days in the House. >>
That is only your OPINION! An opinion does not bestow you with the rights to limit some opinions while allowing others! Please review & offer a retraction - were he such a "loose cannon" would he have ever been reelected?
Robert K. Dornan was first elected to Congress in 1976, representing California’s 27th C.D. in western Los Angeles County and served from January 1977 to January 1983. (His seat was reapportioned out of existence). In 1982, Dornan ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate; having entered the race 10 months late, he finished 4th in a field of 13 candidates.
In 1984, he defeated an entrenched liberal incumbent to represent California’s 38th Congressional District in central Orange County. Much of the 38th District was reapportioned into an even more Democratic 46th District in 1992, which Dornan represented until 1997. During his entire congressional career Dornan was elected in districts that were overwhelmingly Democrat.
After graduation from Loyola High School in Los Angeles in 1950 and attending Loyola University through 1952. Dornan, at age 19, volunteered for service in the United States Air Force.
After earning his silver wings, Dornan went on to serve as a fighter pilot with the world’s first supersonic jet fighter wing. In 1958, Dornan left active duty and joined the California Air National Guard as an F-86 Sabrejet pilot and an intelligence officer, achieving the rank of captain. He survived two F-86 Sabrejet emergency parachute ejections as well as a smooth "dead stick" forced-landing of a flamed out F-100 "Supersabre" on a desert (neither was pilot error) dry lakebed.
Dornan has piloted every aircraft in the U.S. military arsenal, including the B-2 "Spirit," B-1 "Lancer," U-2 , SR-71 "Blackbird," AV-8 "Harrier," and F-15E "Eagle" as well as the Israeli "Kfir,’ and Israeli F-15 and F-16, the British "Tornado" "Harrier," and "Hawk," and the French "Mirage."
Dornan produced and hosted his own television public affairs programs in Los Angeles from 1965 to 1976. In 1968 and 1969 he was awarded Emmys for hosting a live four hour daily political discussion program. Active in domestic civil rights during the 1960s, he marched with Martin Luther King and registered black voters in the south. Dornan originated both the POW/MIA bracelet worn by more than 13 million Americans during the Vietnam War and the "Prisoner of Conscience" bracelet worn for Soviet Jewish and Christian dissidents.
As a news correspondent, Dornan traveled extensively, including 12 food-relief night flights to Biafra in 1969. He also traveled to Vietnam ten times, and Laos and Cambodia four times during the Vietnam War, and ten times beyond the Iron Curtain.
Some Awards and Honors:
"Taxpayers" from the National Taxpayer Union
Golden Bulldog Award
"Guardian of Small Business Award" from the National Federation of Independent Business
"Spirit of Enterprise Award" from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Other awards from the National Guard Association of the U.S.; the Disabled American Veterans; Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Security Council; the Zionist Organization of America; the Jewish National Fund; Cardinal Mindzenty Foundation, and the Tom Dooley Foundation. |
