Posted on 08/15/2011 7:17:45 PM PDT by neverdem
VISTA, Calif. — Here on the third floor of a gleaming office building overlooking a golf course in the rugged foothills north of San Diego, Darrell Issa, the entrepreneur, oversees the hub of a growing financial empire worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Just a few steps down the hall, Representative Darrell Issa, the powerful Republican congressman, runs the local district office where his constituents come for help.
The proximity of the two offices reflects Mr. Issa’s dual careers, a meshing of public and private interests rarely seen in government.
Most wealthy members of Congress push their financial activities to the side, with many even placing them in blind trusts to avoid appearances of conflicts of interest. But Mr. Issa (pronounced EYE-suh), one of Washington’s richest lawmakers, may be alone in the hands-on role he has played in overseeing a remarkable array of outside business interests since his election in 2000.
Even as he has built a reputation as a forceful Congressional advocate for business, Mr. Issa has bought up office buildings, split a holding company into separate multimillion-dollar businesses, started an insurance company, traded hundreds of millions of dollars in securities, invested in overseas funds, retained an interest in his auto-alarm company and built up a family foundation.
As his private wealth and public power have grown, so too has the overlap between his private and business lives, with at least some of the congressman’s government actions helping to make a rich man even richer and raising the potential for conflicts.
He has secured millions of...
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In 2009, as earmarks became a damaging symbol of Congressional abuse, Mr. Issa joined other lawmakers in pledging to discontinue them. And in recent weeks, he has attacked “the culture of government overspending” in pushing for deep cuts in the national debt...
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New York Times Hit Piece on Issa Found Riddled with Errors:
I was wondering when they’d breakout the silver platter for his head.
Here comes the political assassination attempt. It’s been a long, long time since the NYT was even remotely like a bastion of responsible journalism.
Odd that the NYSlimes calls him a “businessman,” which is a far more favorable term to voters than “politician.” Issa knows how things work and I hope he keeps after Holter and his puppetmaster Obozo no matter what.
I’d guess that Issa has the goods to impeach king obuma, so here comes the hit piece by the commies at the NYT.
The BATF/DOJ/State Dept/DEA 'Gunwalker/Fast and Furious/Castaway' blood trail must be leading to prominent steps, indeed--on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Issa has been hitting them hard. Look for Grassley to get targeted next with similar crap.
And still not a word on Nancy Pelosi and her wealth.
And she’s the one running on the “rich get richer” rhetoric.
I await the Times’s front-page examination of how Harry Reid and Chris Dodd became multi-millionaires in the Senate.
The White House Insider told Ulsterman there was a planned hit piece against Rep.Issa.
If this twiddling amount of lies is all the Dems smear machine can muster, we haven’t much to fear from them.
bump to keep forever...
only if the GOP leaves it at that and does not go for the NYSlimes jugular...if this is as erroneous and plagiarized hit piece as it seems the GOP and Issa’s office should be screaming for a retraction and dismissals..
I’ve been in Issa’s inner office to meet with him. Most congresscritter’s offices are plastered with pictures of them shaking hands with VIP donors or something similar. Issa’s office is sparsely decorated with only his dozens of US Patent certificates on the wall. Very classy.
As someone from the county, having witnessed the hit pieces on Issa over the years if Darrel Issa had done anything unethical in his 10 years you can bet during her six years Speaker Pelosi would've happily strung him up by the House Ethics panel. They hate him. With a passion.
This piece comes because of his work embarrassing the administration on "Gunwalker."
I don't even particularly like Issa. I didn't vote for him when he ran for the Senate nomination before he settled for a House seat. He called us idiots in the local paper.
The left has done such a good job squashing all news of the Issa investigations and then the NY Slimes goes and makes this guy front page news. I wonder if this hit piece will do more to elevate Issas work than to ding him?
I noticed that today the NYT admitted that they had misstated the value of the companies that came from the split up of a holding company. They said they were multimillion dollar companies, not multibillion as stated in the original article.
I wonder what further admissions of error will follow.
Meanwhile, Barry Soetoro has devoted his entire political career to destroying the country, destroying livelihoods, planning how to throw the world into a thousand years of Darkness while pissing away billions of tax dollars on his own parties, vacations and gifts to his friends. We hear no criticism from the NYT.
So what is the objection, that Issa is actually creating jobs and wealth or that Issa is merely alive and that is guilt enough?
No one leaves Washington without becoming a multimillionaire first. Check it out yourself. They all do it.
The politicians all get richer while the taxpayers get poorer.
The Clintons were white trailer trash. Reid was an unsuccessful lawyer. Oboma has lived on tax payer handouts all his life, and he too is a millionaire.
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