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'The Morning Read:' Campaigning absentee  view story
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
JOHN GITTELSOHN - - Orange County Register
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There are two Tom Umbergs.
One is a Democratic candidate for state Assembly who lets his wife do all the talking. He appears at campaign fund-raisers as a life-size, cardboard cutout - frozen in midstride, jacket casually slung over his shoulder, looking like Harrison Ford in "Air Force One."
The other Tom Umberg is a colonel in the Army Reserves, called to duty in August to join a team prosecuting "enemy combatants" interned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
While on duty, Umberg's friends and foes are waging a campaign without a candidate.
The two Tom Umbergs - the colonel and the candidate - are not supposed to cross paths.
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