Subject: [big campaign] Fwd: Issa to Obama: I'm rubber and you're glue.
From: "Aniello Alioto, ProgressNow" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:24:01 -0500
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From: Rick Jacobs, Courage Campaign <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:12 PM

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Dear Aniello,

I can't believe what Issa just
said:<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba1975/2786664500/VEsE/>

*“The current lack of transparency lends credence to the perception that
bureaucrats are picking winners and losers in a politicized environment
where the winners are favored constituencies of the Administration.”-Darrell
Issa **(1)*

What?! Lack of transparency? This coming from the Chairman of one of the
most powerful Congressional Committees, who refuses to disclose which
lobbyists he meets with?

*Tell Issa to speak for himself. Sign our petition here demanding he
disclose who he meets
with.*<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba1974/2786664500/VEsF/>

Look, access is everything. That’s what our friend Rena learned while
waiting in vain for three hours outside a private country club hoping to
talk to her Congressman, Darrell Issa, about the challenges she’s facing as
a small businesswoman, a mom, and a hard-working taxpayer with pre-existing
health conditions.

When President Obama recently asked members of Congress to post who they are
meeting with online -- so the public knows who is really steering our ship
of state -- he gave people like Rena hope. Unfortunately, her Congressman
dismissed this idea out of hand (2). But in doing so, he invited an obvious
question: *What does Darrell Issa, one of the most powerful people in
government, have to hide?*

*Click here to sign our petition demanding that Darrell Issa let the
sunshine in. Tell him to disclose who he’s meeting
with.*<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba1974/2786664500/VEsC/>

As I wrote recently in a San Diego Union Tribune op-ed (3), the first thing
Issa did as chair of the powerful Government Oversight Committee -- after
months of right-wing media grandstanding -- was ask corporate lobbyists and
right-wing DC insiders for wish lists to guide his agenda. His next move was
building an oversight staff full of walking conflicts of interest (4), and
appointing subcommittee chairs whose campaigns have been bankrolled by the
very industries they are supposed to regulate.

Then, after voting to let insurance companies once again deny coverage to
the 331,000 constituents (5) like Rena with pre-existing conditions, Issa
held hearings on bank bailouts and the mortgage meltdown.  And with one in
10 homeowners in his district facing foreclosure (6), he inexplicably didn’t
call a single banker or loan servicer to testify before his committee. Not
one.

*If we’re going to find out why, we need to find out who has access to
Darrell Issa. Click here to sign our petition demanding that Issa come
clean.*<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba1974/2786664500/VEsD/>

We already know who doesn't have access to Darrell Issa. Now it's time for
Darrell Issa to come clean about who does.

Thank you for standing with us,

Rick

P.S. Darrell Issa is the richest member of Congress, supported by
deep-pocketed corporate interests, but if we all join together, we can win
this. Can you chip in $5 today and help us continue to hold him
accountable?<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197b/2786664500/VEsA/>

(1) http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197a/2786664500/VEsB/>
2011/03/09/issa-zeros-in-on-health-law-waivers/?mod=<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197a/2786664500/VEsO/>
google_news_blog<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197a/2786664500/VEsP/>

(2) http://thehill.com/<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba1979/2786664500/VEsHBQ/>
homenews/house/140441-rep-issa-obama-feigns-perfection-<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba1979/2786664500/VEsHBA/>
on-lobbying-rules<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba1979/2786664500/VEsHBw/>

(3) http://www.signonsandiego.<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba1978/2786664500/VEsHBg/>
com/news/2011/feb/24/chairman-<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba1978/2786664500/VEsHAQ/>
issa-oversight-for-whom<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba1978/2786664500/VEsHAA/>

(4) http://www.<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197f/2786664500/VEsHAw/>
watchdoginstitute.org/2011/02/28/industry-insiders-score-<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197f/2786664500/VEsHAg/>
jobs-on-issas-team/<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197f/2786664500/VEsHDQ/>

(5) http://issawatch.<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197e/2786664500/VEsHDA/>
couragecampaign.org/index.php/<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197e/2786664500/VEsEBQ/>
page/65<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197e/2786664500/VEsEBA/>

(6) http://issawatch.<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197d/2786664500/VEsEBw/>
couragecampaign.org/index.php/page/74<http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/4b660c0e/1ba66777/f1c95cc/40ba197d/2786664500/VEsEBg/>
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