Word: issa
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...backers of the recall petition - bankrolled by Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, who sees himself replacing Democrat Davis - announced last week that they had collected more than one million signatures. The names have been forwarded to the secretary of state for review. Getting that many signatures in a state of more than 34 million people wasn?t hard: Plenty of Californians are angry after witnessing their state get sucked down a financial black hole during the past three years. In 2001, price gouging energy companies took advantage of botched deregulation to subject the state to rolling blackouts. Shortly afterward, Silicon Valley...
...Davis? Republican detractors shouldn?t be cheering this recall either. This is a lose-lose situation for them. There?s no limit to the number of replacement candidates on the recall ballot. That means Issa may be joined by fellow Republicans Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, losing gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon, and others, not to mention various third party candidates and opportunists. Whichever candidate wins the largest share of votes, even if it?s 5% or less, becomes the new governor. The Republican state party chairman has made noises about trying to rally the party behind...
...went on to become a multimillionaire by selling--yes--car alarms and is using his fortune to fund an anti-Davis campaign across the state, paying signature gatherers $1 for every name they get on a petition favoring a recall election. State election officials say Issa has so far submitted 376,008 names of the 897,158 required by law, and he shows no sign of slowing down, despite the stolen-car story...
Both Democrats and Republicans believe that a recall vote against Davis is inevitable--either in the fall or next March--and with Davis scoring as low as 21% in some polls, Republicans realize they have a chance to win back the country's most visible governorship. Issa may be too conservative (and abrasive) to win statewide office, but former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan tells TIME that he and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, both moderates, have talked about running against Davis. Schwarzenegger isn't discussing politics while he promotes Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which opens this week, but, says...
Court documents contend that Issa, then 27, reported that his cherry-red Mercedes had been stolen from an airport parking lot though he knew that his brother had just sold the car to a dealer in San Jose for $16,000 on Dec. 28, 1979. The charges were ultimately dropped. Issa now says his brother "was a car thief" and denies any personal wrongdoing. "It was illogical to think that I would, in effect, steal my own car," Issa said in a statement last week...