Posted on 01/03/2007 10:20:08 AM PST by Antoninus
Since first being elected to Congress in 1980, Duncan Hunter has devoted himself to ensuring that our military is second to none, securing our nation’s borders, and protecting American workers from unfair competition. Hunter has worked on these issues not because they make headlines, but because they are the right things to do for our country.
A Vietnam veteran, Duncan Hunter has served in the 173rd Airborne and 75th Army Rangers and after returning home, utilized the G.I. Bill to attend Western State University Law School in San Diego. While completing his degree, Hunter worked in farming and construction, and opened a storefront legal office after graduation where he began serving many in the Hispanic community, often without compensation. In 1980, Hunter was asked to mount a challenge for the Congressional seat held by Lionel Van Deerlin. Despite the district having a 2-to-1 Democratic registration, Hunter won the seat in an upset.
Coming to Washington, Hunter successfully sought a seat on the House Armed Services Committee where he could work on America’s national security priorities. Serving on this committee throughout his career, Hunter became Chairman of the full committee in 2002, overseeing a $542 Billion Dollar defense budget. Hunter focuses his efforts on providing President Bush with the necessary resources to win our nation’s military conflicts, protecting our men and women in uniform, and developing modernization initiatives that will deliver new and more effective technologies to the battlefield.
Hunter also came to Congress to make securing the California-Mexico border a top priority. As a resident of a border community, Hunter’s goal was to make the region safe for communities on both sides of the border by providing border enforcement agencies with the tools they need to be effective. September 11, however, made border security a national security issue and Hunter responded by leading efforts in Congress to seal a porous border vulnerable to illegal aliens, drug trafficking and terrorism. Hunter successfully provided over 59 miles of fencing and border infrastructure to date in San Diego County, including continued construction of the Southwest Border Fence Project and fought to ensure that legislation extending the San Diego fence for 700 miles across Arizona, New Mexico and Texas became law.
Hunter’s other legislative priorities include retaining and increasing jobs across America, providing tax relief to hard-working American families, keeping our promises to American veterans, protecting Social Security for present and future generations, and promoting strong family values.
Hunter resides in El Cajon with his wife, Lynne. Like many of his constituents, he is in the process of re-building his Alpine home after it was lost in the October 2003 wildfires. In 2006, Duncan and Lynne celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary and have two sons, Duncan Duane, honorably discharged from the Marine Corps and now president of Boise Hunter Homes, and Sam Hunter, a business student at San Diego State University. Duncan D, and his wife, Margaret, have three children, Duncan Lee, Elizabeth Grace and Sarah Louise, and reside in Boise, Idaho. Sam was married on Valentine’s Day 2004 to the former Theresa Heger of Jamul and their daughter Marin was born in October 2006.
amen to that. Hey, I like Hunter, I voted for him...lived in his district. But there's no way he could win. I choose to live in the real world.
He can't win California. Have we learned nothing from last election?
ROFLMAO..............that just made me SPIT on my monitor!
LOL! Good one boss!
I've been at this all day. They had the whole squad out on just about every anti-Bush thread on the Forum, and today there has been many.
What I love is that this guy actually has DONE stuff in congress. Unlike *cough*kerry*cough*
Duncan Hunter would have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars he doesn't have to become known, let alone nominated. I'd be surprised if his name familiarity is 1%. If provided the name, the typical voter would identify him as processor and marketer of a line of cake mixes: Duncan Hines. What's your position on Angel's Food versus Devil's Food, eh, Duncan?
Duncan Hunter, awarded the Keeper of the Flame Award 2006
(snip) In late September, Hunter was the guest of honor at a black-tie dinner in a hall at Washington's Union Station, where the hawkish defense group the Center for Security Policy presented him with its annual "Keeper of the Flame" award. Among those lauding him at the Center for Security Policy banquet that evening was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who said the Pentagon relies on Hunter's "wisdom, his leadership, his experience and his 'get it done' attitude.' "It is something when he comes into your office like a whirling dervish and starts discussing a subject first at the national level and then down at the microlevel, and then leaves you pieces of metal on your desk that you can hardly lift and has explained exactly where it goes, what it's for, why it should be there and then wants to know why it isn't. And God bless him for it."
Rumsfeld also said the U.S. is more secure because of Hunter. "He's never let the troops down, and as a result of his leadership and his hard work, our nation is a safer place today," Rumsfeld told the dinner gathering that included Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"The war for the Free World will be the most important issue in 2008 and a guy like Duncan Hunter who has a serious grasp on what is at stake will be in an advantageous position come primary season," said Frank Gaffney, who also writes a weekly column for the conservative Washington Times newspaper. http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/11/05/news/top_stories/21_51_5611_4_06.txt
He won the "Keeper of the Flame" award.......
GET OUDA HERE!
And Rudy won't win NY. He wouldn't have beat Hillary as Senator and he won't as presidential candidate and he's then likely to split the GOP in the crucial states and lose what we have held before. Not good.
How did Howard Dean come out of nowhere in 2004? He used the internet! And who the hell ever heard of him before the primaries?
Like someone said, Rudy was only mayor. Hunter is a great campaigner, no nonsense type guy and we are going to need a candidate who is not afraid to take on the Demonrat agenda. I don't see Rudy or the 'names' really making much of a difference in running an aggressive campaign. They will keep many conservatives home unfortunately while they will not win the NY's or Mass liberals over to vote GOP for president!
Please do not lose that info. We'll need it posted numerous times between now and '08.
My tagline has been the same ever since the November 7 elections.
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