Immigrants Running the California GOP?

We reported previously (here) on how the California Republican Party had hired a Canadian for a high level position.  Now the San Francisco Chronicle reports (here) that Michael Kamburowski, an 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. Kamburowski was named in March to be the chief operating officer of the California GOP. He is responsible for the state party’s budget and oversees campaign funds and financing for the nation’s largest state GOP organization.

UPDATE June 26 Kamburowski, an Australian immigrant who served as the California Republican Party’s chief operating officer, abruptly resigned Sunday (here) — 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. According to the Chrionicle, Former White House adviser Steve Schmidt, who ran the re-election campaign for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, angrily described the appointment of Kamburowski as “almost a parody of incompetence and malfeasance.”

KJ