Issa: A Businessman in Congress Helps His District and Himself

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NY Times
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: August 14, 2011

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/us/politics/15issa.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=issa&st=cse

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San Diego's finest.
This guy appears unbelievably crooked!!!
Time to vote him OOO (Out-Of-Office)

[Cool Logic]

1. Only one percent of Americans are millionaires...

On the other hand, 46 percent of Congress, is able to stack that many duckies; and your boy, Issa, stacks them higher than any other member. However, not all of them are Rs. The fact of the matter is that our Representatives are much more in touch with one another, than they are with their constituents, for those duckies are pretty much split 50/50, D/R.

Why do you think 1% of the population controls 38% of the wealth?

Answer: Because our D & R Representatives let them have it.

Both Ds and Rs let the K-Street boys help them write the rules that benefit themselves, and restrict the rest of us. Nevertheless, "We the People" keep electing the same people over and over and...

Oh, I almost forgot...my guy is not the problem, its everyone else's fault.