New Issa rumor

Yeah, but so is Issa under ethics investigation - or at least he's been turned in for one.  He's not going to run.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Rats fleeing a sinking ship

Add another Republican who's getting out while he can:  Darrell Issa (reportedly the richest man in Congress).  If so, Jane Fonda just wasted $100,000 to defeat his re-election.

Probably Issa wants to "spend more time with his family"  But, maybe, just maybe...

A San Diego attorney has asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Rep. Darrell Issa for not reporting a business he owns in an ethics report.

Gil Cabrera said that Issa, R-Vista, violated the Ethics in Government Act by failing to report a real estate investment and property management company he owns with his wife to the Clerk of the House.

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“This was a name which was registered and never used. It had no income, no value and no business activity and therefore was not reportable,” Issa’s spokesman, Calvin Moore, said.

  San Diego Union Tribune

Kind of odd, isn't it?

The business takes its name from the congressman’s initials, and it lists a suite in the same building as the congressman’s district office in Vista as its headquarters.

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Records also show that the Franchise Tax Board suspended DEI Investments in 2014 for failing to file a tax return.

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The House Ethics Committee declined to comment, but its financial disclosure instruction manual says members must report ownership interests in privately held companies if they are valued at $1,000 or more or generate at least $200 in income.

San Diego County property records do not show any properties owned by DEI Investments, a real estate investment and property management company, since it was formed by Issa and his wife Katherine in 2008. But as a privately owned business, many of the company’s financial transactions are usually not publicly available.

Any connection to Russian mob/Trump money laundering real estate deals?

Wouldn't it be ironic (and wonderful) if Trump's election brought down all the money laundering, dirty dealing Congressmen along with him?  Not that Issa is one of them, of course.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

If You Have Nothing to Hide...

On Monday, the White House sent a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), the chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asking the congressman to consider attending a closed-door meeting with administration officials on Tuesday in lieu of having an Obama aide answer questions on the Hill.

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Issa responded to the White House’s silence by sending a subpoena last Friday to Simas’ office, requesting specifically that the director appear before Congress and speak as to OPSO’s role with regards to political campaigns and compliance with the Hatch Act.

“In an effort to appease its political allies, the Obama administration broadcast its intention to re-open a political office within the White House to assist in partisan election efforts and fundraising,” Issa said at the time. “This hearing will examine abuses of taxpayer funds for political gain and the level of White House commitment to preventing them.”

  RT

Charlie Pierce Asking the Right(er) Question

The Republicans have grown giddy over this Fast And Furious business, a truly terrible initiative by which firearms were loosed upon the streets in the hope that they would find their way to drug dealers we would very much like to arrest, and a tactic pioneered, you will not be surprised to learn, by various brainiacs in the employ of the Bush Administration.

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Republicans led by Rep. Darrell (Everyone's As Dirty As Me) Issa uncrated his outrage and has been hauling Attorney General Eric Holder up before his investigating committee fairly regularly over the past two years, hoping to find something (anything!) that would tie Holder to the killing of a border agent, and seeking to hang the entire responsibility for this truly idiotic strategy around Holder's neck.

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Now, Issa's threatening to hold Holder in contempt of Congress on June 20, and Holder's warning darkly of a "constitutional crisis," as though we haven't been living in the midst of one of those since the resolution of the 2000 election.

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The "gun-walking" strategies that began under the last administration have been buried in the Crawford underbrush, which must be quite thick these days now that nobody's around to clear it any more. (And, coincidentally, it comes just as Holder's Justice Department is moving on voter-suppression in places like Florida, about which more later today.) The way you know that is that nobody — except, as always, Charlie Savage in the New York Times — is asking the real question anymore. Which is, basically, who dealt this mess? Somebody should have recognized this as being a bad idea right from jump. And, riddle me this: How does this differ in its basic law-enforcement philosophy from all the scams the spooks are running wherein they find some guy in a bar who wants to bring down the Great Satan personally, and our gumshoes feed him a line about RPG's and Semtex, and the guy shouts "Huzzah!" and starts making plans, and then winds up in Pelican Bay doing life plus 20 years? How long will it be before one of those clever plots goes badly wrong and the guy the spooks find isn't as stupid and hopeless as the guys they've found so far have been? How long before we have a "gun-walking" plot that winds up with a bomb? And what will happen if it does?

  Charlie Pierce