The ballot initiative to divide up California’s Electoral College votes to help the GOP nominee, once believed dead, is looking a little more lively, now that it’s found a new sugar daddy. And just as a writer’s strike is poised to turn the fall TV season into reruns, the state of California finds itself threatened with a political rerun.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports:

Rep. Darrell Issa, who heavily bankrolled the petition drive that led to the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis, said yesterday he would dip into his personal fortune again to help rescue a Republican plan to change the way California’s presidential electoral votes are allocated.

But as with all reruns, it’s never as good the second time around.

The Vista Republican, who became a multimillionaire manufacturing and selling car alarms, would not say what his financial commitment would be, but that it would be far less than the $1.7 million he spent on the recall campaign.

If this news puts you in the mood for Darrell Issa reruns– or you’re just not sure who this walking wallet is– you can check out these recall-era columns I wrote for OC Weekly touching on Issa’s criminal history and his distortion of his military record, as well as the murky origins of his car alarm fortune.

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