First elected to Congress in 2000, Darrell Issa currently serves as Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and also serves on the House Judiciary Committee.
Representative Issa founded Directed Electronics, the Vista, California based industry-leading manufacturer of automobile security and convenience products. Issa has served as Chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association, served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Electronics Industry Association, and as Director of the San Diego Economic Development Association and the Greater San Diego County Chamber of Commerce. In 1994, Issa received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Inc. Magazine, Ernst & Young, and The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Darrell Issa is perhaps best known as the leader of the successful effort to recall former California Governor Gray Davis in 2003. In 1996, he also co-chaired the campaign to pass the California Civil Rights Initiative that ended racial and gender preferences and quotas in state contracting and college admissions.
Issa enlisted in the Army during his senior year in high school and attended college on an ROTC scholarship. In the Army, Issa served as a bomb disposal technician, tank platoon commander, computer R&D specialist, and attained the rank of Captain. He is a graduate of Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan and serves as a member of the University Board of Trustees. Darrell and Kathy Issa are longtime residents of Vista, California. They have one son, William.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)
ACORN Whitewash: What ACORN Won’t Tell You About the ‘Audit’ it Bought
by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)On September 16, 2009, with much fanfare, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis announced that ACORN was hiring an independent auditor to review its internal processes. Yesterday, the former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger produced a report finding ACORN, as a corporation, engaged in administrative negligence.
This of course has not stopped ACORN from declaring victory and calling the report a vindication. Is anyone surprised that a report paid for by ACORN exonerates them? The fact that this review didn’t even include an audit of ACORN’s financial statements speaks volumes. Luckily for taxpayers, there are numerous federal and state investigations currently underway that should ultimately produce a legitimate finding regarding ACORN’s illegal activities.
The reality is ACORN has masqueraded as charitable organization in order to fund and advance a partisan political agenda. There is no mechanism in place to follow where the use of taxpayer and charitable dollars end and where funds used to pay for their political activities begin.
Despite these findings of obvious negligence on ACORN’s behalf, the Proskauer Rose report was not an audit. In fact, among the “7,000 pages” (19) Mr. Harshbarger reviewed, none of those pages included:
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