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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 03:02 PM Aug 2018

Duncan Hunter's Political Promise Foiled by Hard Partying and a Corruption Scandal

In Alpine, Calif., a suburban Southern California enclave, Duncan Hunter was a good neighbor. He’d help people do yard work, or move heavy furniture. He drove the same dented-up truck for years. At parties, he’d have a beer, two tops, and he might go off and sneak a cigarette so his wife wouldn’t see. He rarely talked about his job as a congressman.

In Washington, Mr. Hunter was a fixture on the bar scene, and spent lavishly — over $400 for 30 tequila shots at a bachelor party, and countless fancy dinners. He visited one of his favorite bars sometimes multiple times a day, piling up thousands of dollars in tabs. On occasion, he would get into loud arguments with patrons, once over the choice of music on the jukebox (he hated Celine Dion).

Those divergent lives — between the watering holes and halls of power in Washington and the suburban tracts and chain stores of Southern California — intersected for years, prosecutors say, as Mr. Hunter and his wife funded their personal lives with campaign donations, the dimensions of which were revealed in an indictment last week.

Mr. Hunter, 41, once boasted a glittering political résumé that touched all the right notes in his conservative district: war hero, father to three young children, scion of a political dynasty in Southern California, where his father held power for almost 30 years. His brash personality, tough talk on national security and hard-line immigration views — he was “Trump before Trump,” staffers like to say — ensured a loyal following among his constituents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/us/duncan-hunter-corruption-scandal.html

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Duncan Hunter's Political Promise Foiled by Hard Partying and a Corruption Scandal (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2018 OP
His district is hard core pro-tRump BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #1
I'm in his district Zorro Aug 2018 #2
I hope that feeling lasts until the midterms. BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #3
I hope his opponent uses the "blue falcon" label many veteran acquaintances called Hunter stuffmatters Aug 2018 #4
I want to know the names of other Cong Reps in Hunter's "Bros Caucus" stuffmatters Aug 2018 #5

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
1. His district is hard core pro-tRump
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 03:30 PM
Aug 2018

so he will likely get reelected. My family and friends in San Diego expect this from his deplorable voters.

Zorro

(15,691 posts)
2. I'm in his district
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 04:32 PM
Aug 2018

I'm reading through a Hunter thread posted in nextdoor.com, and although there are a couple of hard-core RWNJs, there are a lot more respondents that definitely are not.

I think he's pissed off a lot of veterans in the district with his actions and comments.

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)
4. I hope his opponent uses the "blue falcon" label many veteran acquaintances called Hunter
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 06:25 PM
Aug 2018

Because Hunter's claiming "Wounded Warriors" donations for money that went into his own pocket is really, really proof that many vets who called him a blue falcon knew Hunter best. This is an enormously active & vet filled district, if our news here does a competent job of reporting on how Hunter betrayed the vets, Hunter is toast IMHO.

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)
5. I want to know the names of other Cong Reps in Hunter's "Bros Caucus"
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 06:37 PM
Aug 2018

Lead by Hunter, pretty much a (constant) drinking,partying club in DC to "defend" White Masculinity/Supremacy.

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