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Issa pointed to the Presidents. Next up was a glass case in which dozens of military coins were displayed, each bearing the insignia of a different unit of the armed forces. Issa pulled a coin out of a desk drawer, prompting one of the other congressmen to take a coin from his pocket. Yours is bigger than mine! The three men laughed. Darrell Edward Issa grew up outside Cleveland, the second of six children. The big event of his youth was moving from a two-bedroom, one-bathroom house in an ethnically Hungarian and Italian suburb to a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the predominantly Jewish suburb of Cleveland Heights.
In , on his seventeenth birthday, Issa dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Army. He has said that he had high test scores, which led to an offer to join an explosive-ordnance-disposal unit. He earned a G. He transferred to Kent State, where he was a member of the campus R.
He served until , when he was stationed at Fort Ord, in Monterey, California. When he returned to civilian life, he remarried. He met his second wife, Kathy Stanton, when she locked her keys inside her apartment and Issa, who lived next door, gallantly scaled a balcony and broke into her place. The company, Quantum Enterprises, assembled electronics such as bug zappers, FM power boosters, and CB radio parts for other companies. It was struggling when Issa made his investment, but not as badly as one of its clients, Steal Stopper International, which made car alarms.
Issa acquired Steal Stopper in February, , began to run the company himself, and turned it around. That year, he sold two hundred thousand car alarms to Ford, and was planning to sell Ford a million the following year. He also was negotiating a major contract with Toyota. At A. The Quantum and Steal Stopper office and factory was on fire. Issa got dressed and drove the seven miles from his house, in Oakwood Village, to his workplace, in Maple Heights.
He arrived by 3 A. Four fire engines, a helicopter, and forty-three firefighters from three departments responded to the alarm. The fire took three hours to bring under control. Almost everything of value was gone. Fortunately for Issa, he had recently increased his fire insurance. Within months, he had opened the business at a new location nearby. In , he sold his company to a California firm that made home alarm systems, and he moved to San Diego to work for the new entity.
Soon afterward, he left to start another car-alarm company, called Directed Electronics, Inc. Issa, who still owns a stake in the company through a family foundation, can recall his exact sales figures from the era. The next year, , we did seven million. And then about fourteen in We got up to about one hundred million. The company does about two hundred and twenty million dollars now.
In an increasingly Democratic state, he soon became one of the biggest donors to Republicans. He helped fund Proposition , a ballot initiative that would ban affirmative action in public institutions. It passed with fifty-five per cent of the vote. In , he decided to run for the United States Senate. His impressive background—working-class high-school dropout, Army officer who helped protect the President, and self-made high-tech tycoon interested in law and order—helped him attract some of the best campaign operatives in California.
He started out by spending two million dollars on radio ads. Although he outspent his main opponent, Matt Fong, the state treasurer, by some nine million dollars, he lost by five points. His campaign fell apart after a burst of investigative reporting raised serious questions about his honesty and his past. Many politicians have committed indiscretions in earlier years: maybe they had an affair or hired an illegal immigrant as a nanny. Issa, it turned out, had, among other things, been indicted for stealing a car, arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, and accused by former associates of burning down a building.
Bergey died of lung cancer in , but his widow, Joyce, recently said to me that she remembered her husband telling the story of the stolen Dodge Charger.
She laughed when she heard that Issa is now a prominent member of Congress. The judge eventually dismissed the case. While the Maserati case was pending, Issa went to college. Just before 11 P.
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