Former Repub. candidate Duncan Hunter's search for wildebeest in Chad

[kskiska]

The Hunter is a lonely heart

Former GOP prez candidate left up the creek without a wildebeest

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), one-time contender for the Republican presidential nomination, had the best of intentions for a trip to Africa. Having heard that there are 230,000 hungry refugees from Darfur currently residing in Chad, Hunter's staffers called the country's embassy and proposed that their boss come hunt wildebeest and distribute the meat to refugees.

Problem? There aren't any wildebeest in Chad. And even if there were, "the Government of Chad does not permit the hunting of large mammals," according to a missive from Chad's embassy.

Actually, wildebeest and other large game aren't all that common in the places they usually reside on the continent. Wars have also taken their toll on the animals, and their annual migration between Kenya and Tanzania has been threatened by poachers.

The embassy offered him the opportunity to take part in a more traditional method of food distribution to refugees, but apparently Hunter has decided instead to try a commercial hunting expedition in Kenya, Tanzania, and Southern Africa.

ProPublica reports that this isn't the first, er, misguided hunting proposal from Rep. Hunter. …

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http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/7/25/104047/764

[World Citizen]

1. I herd there's lots of wildebeesties on the...

Pakistan/Iraq border. And there was one that made a speech in Canada recently.

[TlalocW]

2. Maybe some of his "friends" can take him on a Snipe hunt at night

Then they can do what my brother and his friends did to the guy they took snipe hunting - leave him alone in the woods while they moved on ahead to supposedly flush out the snipes, circle around, and put on a gorilla mask and jump out and scare the crap out of him.

Hunter sounds like the kind of guy who would fall for this.

TlalocW