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...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...
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...
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...
...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...