Posted on 01/31/2007 12:16:44 PM PST by william clark
1. Duncan Hunter was born on May 31,1948, in Riverside, Calif., where his father was a real estate developer. He and his wife, Lynne, have two sons–one a former Marine who served two tours in Iraq–and several grandchildren.
2. He dropped out of college to serve in the military, where he was an Army Ranger paratrooper in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971. He received a Bronze Star for his service in 24 helicopter combat assaults.
3. While attending night school to earn his law degree from Western State University through the GI Bill, he supplemented his income by working in farming and construction. Upon graduation, he worked as an attorney, setting up a private practice in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego and providing free legal assistance to many in the area's Hispanic community.
4. He was elected to Congress in 1980 as a part of the Reagan revolution. As a congressman, he is known for his hawkish views and promilitary stance, serving on the Armed Services Committee, and, more recently, the Select Committee on Homeland Security.
5. The American Conservative Union routinely gives Hunter's voting records high scores for voting for conservative policies and agendas, including a perfect score of 100 in multiple years; conversely, the liberal Americans for Democratic Action has on multiple occasions given Hunter's voting record a zero score.
6. In 1988, he used a sledgehammer to make a point–smashing a Toshiba radio to protest the company's sale of submarine technology products to countries in the Soviet bloc–and advocated barring Toshiba from ever doing business in the United States.
7. In 1992, he was troubled by 399 House Bank overdrafts totaling $129,000, and for three days set up a card table in front of the El Cajon courthouse with copies of his checks, ready to explain each one to any voter.
8. In 2001, he lobbied for a $32 billion increase in current spending, and said the Clinton administration was trying to "conduct an aggressive Ronald Reagan foreign policy with a Jimmy Carter defense budget."
9. Throughout his career, Duncan Hunter has lobbied for more controlled measures along the U.S.-Mexico border, including the installation of fences and border crackdowns; ironically, his younger brother John launched the Water Station project, in which volunteers lug thousands of gallons of water throughout the border's desert to prevent undocumented immigrants from dying in the desert as they attempt to cross into the U.S.
10. He lost his home in the cedar wildfires that raged throughout Southern California in 2003.
DH4WH
Thank you! Excellent information there.
Wasn't Bush president in 2001?
Right now, he's the only real horse in the race. The ponies are gonna tucker out.
"7. In 1992, he was troubled by 399 House Bank overdrafts totaling $129,000, and for three days set up a card table in front of the El Cajon courthouse with copies of his checks, ready to explain each one to any voter."
I'd be "troubled" by an overdraft that big, too. I'd like to know more about that one.
Budget for 2001 written in 2000.
My guess is that he was referencing the prior administration's defense budget while lobbying the new administration for an increase. But the text is certainly not clear on that point.
I'm not sure I understood #7.
I remember this. It was the propeller technology if I remember. I was real good with that sledge too.
"I want to be an airborne Ranger.
I want to go to Vietnam"
(excerpt from marching cadence song, circa 1969)
Hunter was and did.
Duncan Hunter: Overdrafts on his house checking acct.
Hillary: Filegate, cattle futures, Vince Foster, Monica-Juanita-Kathleen Willey, Craig Livingstone, carpet bagger (muncher to, most likely).
McCain: Keating 5
One of these things doesn't belong.
ping
As would I, to be sure. But the description certainly makes it sound as though there was a viable explanation for whatever caused it; and since it was clearly a locally-reported issue that his constituents weren't much bothered by (given his multiple re-elections), I'm not too concerned. Still, it would be beneficial to know the details so as to respond to any Dem accusations that might arise regarding it (the pot-kettle crowd).
DH4WH
They all don't.
"He dropped out of college to serve in the military, where he was an Army Ranger paratrooper in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971. He received a Bronze Star for his service in 24 helicopter combat assaults. "
...where were Rudy/Mitt/Newt during those air assault ops?
That's like saying my speeding ticket is the same as vehicular homicide.
Done in typical fashion of politicians not keeping within budgets??
Not a disqualifying issue, if adequately explained and reimbursements were properly made.
I don't know about the description making it sound like a viable explanation; if I had overdrawn my account by that much, I could show all the cheques I'd written, and it wouldn't explain why I'd overdrawn. :)
You are suggesting one of the those incidents had something to do with the overdraft?
So this overdraft was not 'his house' but the Federal House?
Why did he have his check book on the card table?
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