Rep.Darrelll Issa afraid to debate..

[butterfly77]

his opponent..

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/23/issa-no-debate/

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is fully embracing his role as the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, eager to “subpoena the rats and cockroaches” in his crusade to impeach President Obama. While relishing his “duties” as a Oversight Committee member, there is one civic responsibility the five-term incumbent is dodging: the duty to debate.

According to the North County Times, Issa is now “refusing to debate his Democratic opponent” Howard Katz (D-CA), after personally agreeing to do so “when the two chatted at a July 3 parade” in Oceanside, CA. Katz contends that Issa said he’d “certainly” debate him “on a date that works with my schedule so I can come.” But now, Issa’s spokesman Kurt Bardella insists that “the topic of debate never came up” and, “because the economy is a free fall,” his job in “continuing the process of oversight” outweighs is responsibility to participate in a debate:

“I was asking him about a debate and he said, ‘Certainly, just make it on a date that works with my schedule so I can come,’” said Katz, a Temecula resident.

Bardella denied that Issa, R-Vista, ever agreed to debate whether he should continue to represent the district that includes much of North County and Southwest Riverside County.

“The topic of a debate never came up,” Bardella said Tuesday. “He (Issa) has never made any kind of promise or commitment to debate.”<...>

[catgirl]

1. How are we doing in that race? n/t

[lunatica]

2. Isn't he the asshole that started the recall of Gray Davis

in the hopes of getting the governorship of California himself? Putrid piece of shit.

[Hawaii Hiker]

4. Yes..and he was also behind that electoral vote scam CA. republicans tried

in summer 2007...They were hoping to get initaive on the ballot splitting the states electoral votes by district won instead of winner take all...Think about that, McCain lost CA. by 24%, but had that EV split been in effect, he'd recieved about 20-22 electoral votes, or eqivalent of a decent size electoral prize like OH, PA, IL...

But it never even made it to the ballot as people trying to obtain signatures were saying false things like this is a ballot iniative to help kids w/cancer and other BS...Besides, it had serious constitutional issues, and was doomed from the start..

Bottom line is, Issa is a good for nothing SOB...

[butterfly77]

5. He is also the one...

who wants to start impeachment and other nonsense investigations if the CONS win seats..

[Submariner]

3. That's to be expected from a Punk car thief

That felon belongs in jail, not in congress.

[andym]

6. If true, pamphlets should be distributed in his district

stating that is he afraid to debate and a liar to boot.

[livetohike]

7. Nothing new with Issa. He never debated any of the Dem

challengers when I lived in his district. Yet he continually is voted in. It will be a great day when he finally loses his seat.