Duncan Hunter's Bio [GOP presidential contender]

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[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.

[Antoninus]

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.

You were on board before me, then. All you need to do is a FReep-search for "Duncan Hunter" to see the articles that have been posted on him over the past two months. They're attracting hundreds of posts each. And the ping-list is growing.

Interest in Hunter is starting to well up. We've just got to get his name and record out there. Naysayers be darned.

[no dems]

What I love is that this guy actually has DONE stuff in congress. Unlike *cough*kerry*cough*

"...Unlike *cough*Hastert*cough* and *cough*Foley*cough* and *cough*Duke Cunningham*cough* and........"

[Howlin]

Ah, it was only a matter of time until you made an appearance on a Hunter thread.

Why would you say such a stupid thing?

[Antoninus]

Why would you say such a stupid thing?

Stupid? Why? Your appearance on a thread usually means that the topic has "hit the big time".

Would you vote for Duncan Hunter if he were the nominee?

[Howlin]

Your appearance on a thread usually means that the topic has "hit the big time".

Like I said, stupid.

And I'm not here to answer YOUR questions, bud.

[Wormwood]

Interest in Hunter is starting to well up.

I'm a moderate, and I'm on the record as a (default) Guiliani supporter.

That said, I've read enough about Hunter over the past week to make me seriously examine my decision.

Feel free to consider that progress. ;-)

[Antoninus]

Like I said, stupid. And I'm not here to answer YOUR questions, bud.

Gosh, you're hostile. Nonetheless, welcome aboard!

[SierraWasp]

"Your appearance on a thread usually means that the topic has "hit the big time"."

Aw geez Antoninus... Don't pump her head up any bigger than it already is, please!!!

She's only on this thread cause she's turned moderate and anti-conservative. She actually thinks she can talk lurkers and even some posters out of supporting Duncan. That's what it's all about... You bettcha!!!

[Antoninus]

That said, I've read enough about Hunter over the past week to make me seriously examine my decision. Feel free to consider that progress. ;-)

Hey, why not. Rudy only looks good on paper and in the polls being conducted by the MSM. If he becomes the nominee, the MSM will be dancing in the aisles--five seconds before they begin the most vicious smear campaign in history to drive a wedge between Giuliani and the conservative base of the GOP. If you think the Mark Foley trick was dirty, it will be a peck on the cheek compared to what they'll unload on Giuliani. The man's got more baggage than the cast of the View filming on location in Aruba.

By the time they're done, Rudy would be lucky to get 35% of the vote in a general election. And I shudder to think what that will do to the down-ticket races...

We've got to prevent that from happening.

[Howlin]

Gosh, you're hostile.

You mock me for being on this thread and then call me hostile?

[Howlin]

You are a liar.

[Antoninus]

She's only on this thread cause she's turned moderate and anti-conservative. She actually thinks she can talk lurkers and even some posters out of supporting Duncan. That's what it's all about... You bettcha!!!

No worries. She's still a FReeper in good standing. We need naysayers on the Hunter threads anyway. If Hunter's got weaknesses, better to have them exposed now. So far, the best they can do is to say: "He's not electable because I said so."

[Wormwood]

We need naysayers on the Hunter threads anyway.

And to be fair, some of us are here to learn about the guy.

[Antoninus]

You mock me for being on this thread and then call me hostile?

That wasn't mocking. It was stating a fact. Indeed, I was surprised you hadn't appeared on a Hunter thread before now, considering they're getting hundreds of posts.

What's your opinion on Hunter? Would you vote for him?

[Antoninus]

And to be fair, some of us are here to learn about the guy.

Right! Count me in that group as well. Hunter's only been on my radar screen for three weeks, but he's immediately vaulted to my #1 choice. Seems like a rock-solid guy with great credentials.

[Howlin]

I like what I have read so far, but I don't know enough about him to make an opinion.

[Howlin]

We need naysayers on the Hunter threads anyway.

You mean you've been having these threads and the FR Prig Patrol hasn't turned up like they do on the Rudy and Mitt threads to try to destroy them?

[Antoninus]

I like what I have read so far, but I don't know enough about him to make an opinion.

Fair enough. As I said before, welcome aboard!

[SierraWasp]

But she and Hildy are NOT here to expose supposed weaknesses... They are hear seeking whom they may drive away!!! They are trying to say that conservatives are too rigid and controversial to get elected which of course is totally bogus from the get-go!!!

Of course if they themselves are still any kind of conservatives, they look to me to be "complacent conservatives" that will swallow the conservative lite types like Rudy and maybe even McCain as long as they have the support of the MSM until the general election where they'll be slaughtered, of course.

[Howlin]

They are trying to say that conservatives are too rigid and controversial to get elected which of course is totally bogus from the get-go!!!

No, we're saying that jerks like you, who give the GOP an ugly face, are too damn uncompromising. You're never satisified with anything.

Reading your other posts, I can understand why you're always in such an uproar; you're shockingly misinformed.