It’s also interesting to hear – admittedly, this is second-hand hearsay so you can assign whatever credibility you wish to it – that the Sobhani campaign was paying $4 per signature to out-of-state petition signature gatherers. He turned in 77,000 signatures when he needed 37,128 [1] .... There are also questions posed by blogger Jim Jamitis [2] regarding Sobhani’s role in CNN’s “dubious journalistic practice of accepting ‘sponsorships’ from the very regimes they are supposedly investigating.”  Moreover, Rob is no stranger to politics, having made runs as a Republican for the U.S. Senate in 1992 and 2000....  In October 1999, Sobhani was the beneficiary of a fundraiser [3] put on by the Iranian-American Republican Council, San Francisco Chapter.