Robin Abcarian: Ammar Campa-Najjar is running again despite racist attacks in midterms
A few weeks ago, at a political dinner, Ammar Campa-Najjar bumped into the uncle of the man he had run against for Congress.
Campa-Najjar's opponent, Republican U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, is a former Marine and scion of an ultra-conservative family dynasty in northeastern San Diego County.
During the campaign, Campa-Najjar had been demonized by Hunter and his father, a former congressman, as an Islamic terrorist who was trying to "infiltrate" Congress. The preposterous attacks had garnered news coverage and outrage all over the country. The two candidates never met; Hunter refused to debate Campa-Najjar.
And yet, in the three weeks following the midterm election, Campa-Najjar
