Robin Abcarian: Once smeared as a security risk who would 'infiltrate' Congress, he's a Navy officer now
by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Sep 08, 2023
3 minutes
Last week, out of the blue, I got a text from Ammar Campa-Najjar. The two-time San Diego County Democratic congressional candidate wanted to let me know that he'd just been commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves, assigned to the Pacific Fleet.
What an unexpected twist.
"You turn your pain into purpose," he told me when we spoke Monday. "Now this story has its closure."
When last I checked in with Campa-Najjar, the San Diego native, then 29, was on the rebound after to wrest control of California's 50th Congressional
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