Word: issa
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Republican Congressman Darrell Issa has been accused of trying to steal an election with his recall campaign against embattled California Governor Gray Davis. Now, as first reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, it has emerged that Issa was arrested in 1980 for allegedly trying to steal...
...With no runoff, the candidate who gets a plurality of votes wins--which makes it a wide-open contest. Several prominent Republicans, including losing gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and movie actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, are eyeing the seat. One prospective candidate, multimillionaire Congressman Darrell Issa, has put up $445,000 of his own money to back the recall effort. Democrats are in a trickier position; while publicly denouncing the recall drive, they could be scrambling to enter the race should it succeed. Davis has launched an antirecall campaign, raising $500,000, hiring 250 people...
...ground began to shift last week. Multimillionaire Republican Congressman Darrell Issa announced that he might put up at least $100,000 of his own money toward the recall drive--and pledged to raise in the next week at least half the $1.2 million he thinks the campaign needs. The effort claims 100,000 signatures, and collecting the required 900,000 is a daunting job, but organizers will now have the resources to hire professionals to gather signatures in front of grocery stores and shopping malls across the state. If he succeeds, Issa intends to offer himself as a replacement...
...Uzbeks didn't shoot Khan. They scored points with their American overlords by turning him over as a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist. "Issa isn't a Taliban or al-Qaeda," says his dad. "He's a doctor who maybe likes to smoke too much hashish and laze around...
...Soon, however, a batch of mistakenly detained captives is likely to be sent home. Among the first to "come down the chute", as Rumsfeld put it, are a handful Pakistanis. Back in the village, Issa Khan's family waits hopefully for his return. "We'll send a convoy of cars from the village to pick him up, with music and everything," promises his father Azeem. "Then we'll help him find his wife and baby in Afghanistan." Clutching a photo of his son, Azeem says: "No, I don't hold any grudge against the Americans." Then he adds with...