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WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, announced his candidacy Friday for a spot in the House Republican leadership being vacated by one of the contenders to replace Tom DeLay as majority leader. Issa said he will seek the post of Republican Policy Committee chairman, among the lower spots in the eight-member GOP leadership team but one that would give him a seat in meetings with the House speaker, majority leader, whip and others. "I think California needs to be represented in the national policy debate," Issa said in an interview. "So much of what needs to be heard in...

CARLSBAD – Rep. Darrell Issa said Wednesday morning that he was endorsing former Republican congressman Brian Bilbray and will serve as his campaign chairman in the race to replace disgraced Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham in the 50th District. Pointing out that his district, the 49th, is touched on all sides by the 50th, Issa, R-Vista, said he needs a partner in Washington D.C. who has the experience and integrity to get work done on behalf of the North County. "When you are looking for someone who is trusted and proven and who has been in the arena and has been...

WASHINGTON – Rep. Darrell Issa's bankrolling of the recall drive against then-Gov. Gray Davis two years ago was allowable under a sweeping new federal campaign finance law, federal regulators announced yesterday. Although the Federal Election Commission asked its lawyers to investigate Issa's financial involvement in the 2003 recall – indicating there was "reason to believe" the Vista Republican broke the law – the panel based its final ruling on a new clarification of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, better known by its congressional moniker, the McCain-Feingold law. Issa, a millionaire who ignited the successful recall of Democrat Davis by contributing...

  On November 4, 2005, Jewish Defense League (JDL) member Earl Krugel was murdered in an Arizona prison.  It was only his third day into a 20-year sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Phoenix.  The 62-year old Navy veteran and former dental technician was exercising when another inmate came up behind him and hit him over the head with a concrete block, killing him instantly.  Why a loose cement block was just hanging around the exercise yard is still unknown.  Authorities have been fairly tightlipped so far, but the investigation has reportedly focused on a white supremacist inmate.   While this...

The photos that line some U.S. Border Patrol station walls are like "Wanted" posters that help agents recognize suspected human smugglers among those caught sneaking across the border. Each display, Rep. Darrell Issa said, is a wall of shame, evidence that human smugglers are too often released to smuggle again rather than held to face criminal charges and a prison cell. Most Inland members of Congress have joined Issa in calling enforcement of immigration laws too lax. Issa blames the guidelines that federal prosecutors use to manage the number of cases they will bring against suspected immigrant smugglers. But some...

Republican California Congressman Darryl Issa just appeared on the Los Angeles John and Ken show, and explained that he did not say that Tom Tancredo of Colorado should be thrown out the Republican Party over Tancredo's support of Minuteman Jim Gilchrist. Gilchrist, a member of the American Independent Party is participating in a congressional race against Republican John Campbell. Gilchrist and Campbell are vying for the seat vacated by Chris Cox, who resigned to become chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Issa told the hosts that what he had said was an observation that the California Republican Party has...

A leader of the Jewish Defense League who admitted his role in two criminal conspiracies to manufacture and detonate bombs at a mosque and a Congressman's field office was recently sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum for his two counts of conviction. Earl Leslie Krugel, 62, of Reseda, California, was sentenced by United States District Judge Ronald S.W. Lew. In sentencing the JDL member, Judge Lew recognized that Krugel's actions contributed to an atmosphere of ethnic hatred in the period following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Krugel pleaded guilty in 2003 to conspiring to bomb...

OPPOSING IMMIGRANTS ... AND REPUBLICANS. Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) -- a 2008 White House hopeful and the leading Hill advocate of imposing a radical crackdown on immigration into the US -- broke with the GOP in the upcoming California special election for the congressional CD-48 seat recently vacated by SEC Chair Christopher Cox (R). Although ten of the 17 candidates -- including frontrunners State Senator John Campbell and former Assemblywoman Marilyn Brewer -- are Republicans, Tancredo formally endorsed an ideological ally. Tancredo endorsed American Independent Party nominee Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the "Minuteman Project" of citizen border patrols. "I...

LOS ANGELES - A Jewish Defense League member was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for his role in a plot to bomb a mosque and a Lebanese-American congressman's office. During the hearing, Earl Krugel, 62, apologized and said he was a changed man. But U.S. District Judge Ronald S.W. Lew described Krugel's actions as "promoting hatred in the most vile way" and sentenced him to the maximum under Krugel's plea agreement. Lew said Krugel had failed a polygraph test five times during the investigation. "You are not that changed a person. You have more to give," the judge...

Imagine the manager of the San Diego Padres requiring outfielders to remain in one location in the outfield while playing. The other teams would immediately figure out the weakness in the Padres’ strategy. Although outfielders might catch a few balls in the first innings, eventually, they would only catch balls hit right to them. Now, instead of telling the Padres’ manager to stop restricting the outfielders’ movement in the field, imagine the owner of the Padres concluding the outfielders were ineffective and no longer needed in the outfield. In an effort to improve the team, the owner tells the manager...

Twenty Years after TWA 847, No Lessons Learned By Debbie Schlussel Twenty years ago, this week, Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847, and trampled Navy Diver Robert Stethem to death. Stethem's only crime was being American. The hijacking and murder was among the first televised Islamic terror attacks against Americans, unfolding on TV screens over 17 days. Twenty years later, disturbing kowtowing to Hezbollah terrorists shows we've learned nothing from Stethem's brutal murder at the hands of Islamic terrorists. On September 11, 2021, will it be worse? On June 15, 1985, Hezbollah hijackers seized the TWA flight in Athens. Identifying...

See http://politicalvanguard.com/index.php?id=scorecard for full report. I'll post the hot story of the week and a summary here... Hot stories of the Week: After Sen. Abel Maldanado (sic) opened his Controller's Monday, stories started circulating that Republican Assemblyman Keith Richman would move from the Treaturer's race where his trails Simon by 40+ points to the Controller's race. Tony Strickland would benefit from that move because that would mean two moderates - Richman (voted against Arnold's budget because it did not include tax increases) and Maldonado would be fighting it out against a lone conservative. Republican candidates (or potential candidates) for Senate...

Security sources report abrupt withdrawal of all Syrian commands in Lebanon including key military intelligence chief General Ghazaleh.Lebanese secret service chief General Raymond Azar flees to Paris. Internal Security Forces head General Ali al-Hajj about to quit.New response scenarios may be cooked up by opposition leader Jumblatt, Assistant Secretary of State Satterfield and US Congressman of Lebanese decent Darrel Issa (R-Vista, San Diego County)Assad secretly deploys joint Iranian-Syrain units.

Hold Their Feet to The Fire America needs your help. Illegal aliens and their friends in Congress are trying to derail legislation that would strengthen our borders and keep illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses. It's time to come to Washington, D.C. and tell Congress in person what you have been telling them over the phone and in letters and faxes. This is your chance to tell Congress directly — we're tired of America selling out to cheap labor and corruption.  Now's the time to join Roger Hedgecock, top rated radio talk show host in San Diego, California (KOGO/AM...

McClintock, Issa jockey for new campaign in '06Lieutenant governor attracts pair if governor, Boxer seek re-electionBy Timm Herdt, therdt@VenturaCountyStar.comDecember 17, 2004Nearly a year and a half before the primary, two of the key figures in the California recall election are engaged in a political game of chicken to dissuade the other from attempting to become Gov. Arnold Schwarz-enegger's unofficial running mate in 2006. Sen. Tom McClintock of Thousand Oaks, who stamped his name on the minds of California voters by remaining a candidate for governor throughout the recall campaign, already has formed a committee and is raising money for a...

In the past 2,000 years there have been numerous descriptions of Jesus of Nazareth, but the image of an Arab Jesus – “the first Palestinian fedayin who carried his sword” – as depicted by Yasir Arafat at a sideshow of the United Nations in 1983 was probably the most grotesque. Present at his first press conference at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on September 2, 1983, I heard the words from the UN simultaneous English interpretation of his spoken Arabic: “We were under Roman imperialism. We sent a Palestinian fisherman, called St. Peter, to Rome. He not only occupied...

What is the story on Bodansky? As the Director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the U. S. Congress, it seems like he would have some credibility. He set forth some pretty articulate explanations of where Saddam's WMDs may be (Syria) and that al Quada did receive support and training from Iraq. Is he just pushing a book or does he know what he's talking about? And if any of what he is saying is true, why hasn't anyone else picked it up? I know that the "mainstream" media would totally ignore it, of course, but...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Rep. Darrell Issa, who catapulted to fame and controversy after bankrolling the recall drive against Gov. Gray Davis, will not seek the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, a spokesman said Tuesday.</p> <p>"We had every reason to be certain that if Darrell had chosen to seek the nomination for senate, it would have been his for the asking," said Issa spokesman Jonathan Wilcox. "But he is very committed and determined in his congressional work and has found it to be a passion and a purpose."</p>

<p>BLANTYRE, Malawi  — Five men suspected of running charities that funneled money to Al Qaeda have been arrested in Malawi and were to be deported from the southern African nation, intelligence officials said Monday.</p> <p>The men, all foreigners, were arrested Sunday night in the southern city of Blantyre in a joint operation involving the CIA and Malawi's National Intelligence Bureau, the intelligence officials said.</p>

Police in the Malawi city of Blantyre have fired tear gas at Muslims protesting against the arrest and deportation of five suspected al-Qaeda members. The al-Qaeda suspects are now in US custody The Muslims, coming from Jumm'ah, or obligatory Friday prayers, chanted slogans against the government and their own association, the Muslim Association of Malawi (Mam). They accused the government of losing sovereignty by secretly handing the suspects over to American CIA agents, despite a High Court ruling ordering the government to charge or release the men. They also accused their association of failing to protect fellow Muslims, despite the...

With Arnold Schwarzenegger poised to be sworn in as governor next week, California Republicans are turning their sights to the next big prize: the 2004 U.S. Senate race, where Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer is seeking a third term. But while many Republicans would like nothing more than to topple the outspoken and proudly liberal Boxer, the magic formula of star power and GOP unity that elected Schwarzenegger has so far eluded this contest. Just three little-known Republicans have entered the race and top party strategists are hoping to coax in some bigger names. "Barbara Boxer is America's worst senator....

<p>Between May and August of this year, Congressman Darrell Issa ran for governor of California, spending more than $2 million on the recall effort and then his own short-lived candidacy. Most of the $1.7 million he spent on the recall went to hiring professional staff to gather signatures to get the recall proposition on the ballot. His own quixotic gubernatorial bid was over almost before it began. So what does the representative from Vista, Calif. have to show for his trouble?</p>

To my fellow conservatives: By now you may have heard that I have endorsed Arnold Schwarzenegger for Governor. I have received a variety of responses to that decision, some good, and some bad. I understand them all, and I believe each of you need to know the reason I made this decision. It was not lightly made, and the result of a lot of discussion, thought and prayer. I take my role as a conservative in the legislature seriously, and my endorsement means something to me. I don't give it away lightly, and I do so only when I believe...

September 27, 2003 Darrell Issa and Howard Kaloogian, the recall's original dynamic duo, have parted ways over Tom McClintock, the right-wing Republican on the ballot to replace Gov. Gray Davis. This North County rift reveals the stress Republicans are under as the recall gets down to its short, hysterical strokes. As you know, Rep. Issa, R-Vista, bankrolled the recall's signature drive, figuring that he might be able to get elected governor on the rebound – and on the cheap. But long before the Issaman cameth, Kaloogian, a termed-out North County assemblyman, had done a ton of heavy lifting for the...

Republican California gubernatorial recall candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up two key endorsements on Thursday and is expected to receive another one on Friday. Bill Simon, a conservative businessman who was the Republican nominee in the 2002 California gubernatorial race as well as one of the candidates in the October 7 recall election before dropping out, has announced he is officially endorsing Schwarzenegger's candidacy. "I am here to endorse Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor," Simon told a group of supporters at a Schwarzenegger town hall meeting. "I think Arnold Schwarzenegger is the right man to be governor of California." While Simon made...

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In an interview on KFI 640 AM, Rep. Darrell Issa stated that he would be endorsing one of the top Republican candidates for governor within 24 to 48 hours of the debate scheduled for tonight. He further stated that he would be endorsing the candidate very actively, by campaigning for the candidate, i.e. ads, radio interviews, money, etc.

In an interview on KFI 640 AM, Rep. Darrell Issa stated that he would be endorsing one of the top Republican candidates for governor by next Monday. He further stated that he would be endorsing the candidate very actively, by campaigning for the candidate, i.e. ads, radio interviews, money, etc.

<p>The GOP congressman whose money put the recall on the ballot urged Republicans Monday to keep Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in office if neither Arnold Schwarzenegger nor Tom McClintock pulls out of the race by election day.</p> <p>"If two major Republicans remain on the ballot, I'd advise you to vote 'no' on the recall," said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista (San Diego County), who spent more than $1.6 million of his own money to help gather signatures to recall Davis.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES -- Rep. Darrell Issa, the man who largely bankrolled the effort to qualify the recall election for the ballot, on Friday said one of the two leading Republican candidates must leave the race, but he stopped short of saying which one.</p>

<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger hoped to take the state GOP convention by storm Saturday with a major rally and speech, as he aimed to win the minds of party activists whose hearts might belong to his conservative opponent.</p> <p>Schwarzenegger was to attend a morning rally complete with live music outside the convention hotel, then woo the faithful with a lunchtime address aimed at casting him as the successor to California Republican leaders such as Ronald Reagan and former Govs. Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian.</p>

<p>TEMECULA, Calif. -- So often is California State Senator Tom McClintock asked about when he will quit the governor's race and "release" his supporters to back the leading Republican candidate, Arnold Schwarzenegger, that he no longer even waits for the question. "Let me just say this," he tells this interviewer, unprompted. "I mean what I say. I do not break promises. I'm in this race to the finish line. That is a promise."</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — The financial godfather of the California recall election says there's no way that actor-turned-candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger can replace Gov. Gray Davis unless some Republicans in the race drop out. Darrell Issa, a Republican congressman who invested $1.75 million of his personal fortune in an effort to oust Davis, said he bases his conclusion on "pure arithmetic."</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — The financial godfather of the California recall election says there's no way that actor-turned-candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger can replace Gov. Gray Davis unless some Republicans in the race drop out.</p> <p>Darrell Issa, a Republican congressman who invested $1.75 million of his personal fortune in an effort to oust Davis, said he bases his conclusion on "pure arithmetic."</p>

IWhere political principles are dead weight Posted: September 3, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive," wrote Wordsworth on the Fall of the Bastille, "But to be young was very heaven." So it was, long ago, when a young generation of conservatives rose up to declare they would rather go down to defeat with Barry Goldwater than win with Nelson Rockefeller. And lose we did. But out of the fiery furnace came a movement. Sixteen years later, it would nominate Ronald Reagan, who would win a 44-state landslide, go...

He was just laying back being interview about how illegal it is to use tax money as protests scream back and forth.

who largely funded the effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis abruptly pulled out of the race to replace him Thursday, a day after actor Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped in. Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, who made his fortune selling car alarms and pumped $1.7 million of his own money into the recall effort, announced in a tearful news conference that he would not run. He declined to endorse anyone but said Schwarzenegger's announcement Wednesday that he would run for governor helped assure him there would be enough qualified candidates for the office. "It has nothing to do with Schwarzenegger's decision, other than...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The millionaire congressman who funded the recall effort against Gov. Gray Davis (news - web sites) has withdrawn from the race one day after actor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a run, officials said on Thursday. Darrell Issa, a wealthy conservative Republican congressman from the San Diego area who spent $1.7 million to fund collecting the recall petitions, said he could not leave his work in Congress, especially his work for "uniting the people of the Middle East." Issa is of Lebanese descent and a self-made millionaire through a car alarm company that he founded. Issa said he...

Issa is not entering the Recall race, opting to remain in the Congress to promote Middle East peace. Satisfied that other candidates will fullfil the platforms he would have sought as governor.

On Thursday, July 31st, members of the LA Chapter (Hollywood Resistance Force) went to meet and talk to Darrell Issa. Issa is a good man and would represent conservatives well in CA. He took a few questions from the audience and I was lucky enough to be one of the 4 or 5 picked. The question before me was what was going to happen if 3 or 4 pubs filed for the recall election. He said they would all get in a room and figure something out. I asked what that meeting might look like and WHOM was actually going...

<p>VENTURA -- The Republican scramble to replace Gov. Gray Davis began in earnest here Tuesday as state Sen. Tom McClintock filed to run in the Oct. 7 recall, vowing to issue an executive order rescinding the recent tripling of the vehicle license fee as soon as he's sworn in.</p>

One is a college dropout who at age 41 now co-owns an El Segundo-based slot machine company that is the largest of its kind in the state. Another is a Torrance private eye and self-proclaimed “political gadfly” who has unsuccessfully run for various federal and state offices numerous times, usually under the banner of the Peace and Freedom Party. A third is a disabled, nationally known porn purveyor who owns a Gardena casino. They and three others with South Bay connections are among more than 250 people statewide with aspirations of replacing Gov. Gray Davis in the Oct. 7 recall...

<p>Vista congressman faces a growing field of popular candidates to replace Davis.</p> <p>Darrell Issa was a driving force behind the recall petition drive, but he has reaped few rewards in his candidacy to replace Gov. Gray Davis on Oct. 7.</p>

<p>On Friday, the first day that renewal forms containing sharply higher vehicle registration fees were mailed out, Rep. Darrell Issa vowed to cancel the increase if elected governor.</p> <p>"On October 8, I will repeal Gray Davis' actions," said Issa, R-Vista, during a campaign stop at Dan Gamel's RV Center in Fresno. "It's wrong. It's unfair. It's illegal and it represents both the failure of Gray Davis and the mess he's made in Sacramento."</p>

<p>"THE PEOPLE of California know that Gray Davis created the deficit," Rep. Darrell Issa, who bankrolled the petition drive against Gov. Davis, declared on CNN last week.</p> <p>Issa's comments are indicative of the hyperbole and gross simplicities that have characterized the recall campaign so far.</p>

The California governor's race is up for grabs and a bevy of Republicans are throwing in their hats. But one thing is sure: If he runs, Arnold Schwarzenegger won't have the support of the conservative Reaganites who dominate the state's Republican party...

Sacramento -- Gov. Gray Davis was moving into full campaign mode this weekend, mending fences and working with the Senate to seal a budget deal, even as his backers moved to trash one of his leading opponents in the Oct. 7 recall. Davis' supporters went on the attack Sunday, accusing Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of gay-bashing when one of his political consultants said in a newspaper interview that California voters aren't likely to elect an openly bisexual candidate like former Congressman Michael Huffington. "To say that Darrell Issa is no friend of the (gay-lesbian-bisexual- transgender) community is an understatement," said...

<p>Should the Democrats have a replacement candidate on the recall?</p>

. "The needs of the Many outweigh the needs of the Few - or the One" - Spock (from "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan") . . . . Dear Bill,. . . . Tomorrow you will face the most important decision in your political life: to run, or NOT to run in the recall election to replace Gray Davis.. . . . Please do NOT run.. . . . In fact, I contend that your duty to your Party and your duty to your State demand MUCH STRONGER action from you. I sincerely believe that you need to act...

<p>Washington -- Federal elections officials issued a ruling Thursday that could lead to penalties against Rep. Darrell Issa's campaign effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis, sharply limiting an Arizona congressman's ability to raise money for a state ballot measure campaign.</p>