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.
DITTO!!
Trivia question:
How many US Presidents have been elected directly from the US House of Representatives?
I love your posts! Just get people to know his name, he'll show he has the goods.
How many? Love your photo on your home page, btw.
How many women or blacks have been elected to the presidency?
Thank you...so far, so good. Now let him get in front of the commie news guy and have at it.
Thanks for continuing to post articles and maintain the Hunter ping list. These threads are a nice break from the 500 post Rudy/McCain/Romney threads.
As someone who lives in Duncan Hunter's district I can tell you he is very popular in this district usually winning his elections with over 65% of the vote.
I heartily endorse him.
He was great on immigration/border issues long before most of the country was aware of the problem.
I urge you to consider him.
Not bad, but middle of the pack of current Republican 08 Presidential contenders.
This guy has it together. He has my vote as the other offerings such as Mclame and Julie Annie are out.
http://www.nrapvf.org/elections/State.aspx?State=CA#U.S.%20HOUSE%20OF%20REPRESENTATIVES
In addition to the above, Duncan Hunter also gets an "A+" from the NRA. The more I'm reading, the more I'm liking.
Thank you. The answer is none, and in fact nobody has been elected whose last job was a US Rep, although many have tried.
It's extremely difficult, and the reason is that you're considered a local politician without any executive experience.
Very few Representatives have a national following or even name recognition. I guarantee you that a majority of the public couldn't tell you who Denny Hastert is (was).
The only President who ever managed to pull off a similar (and perhaps more remarkable) feat was Abraham Lincoln, who came out of the Illinois legislature to win the Presidency.
So far, history has shown that it's extremely difficult to win the Presidency as a US Senator, and it's been impossible as a US Representative.
There could always be a first, but if it were easy it would have been done before.
"Hunter. Not Hines."
You mean this is not the guy who makes the Cake mix?
Hunter is very wellspoken, clear and straightforward. He made that great presentation on how well Gitmo-Prisoners are being treated and destroyed (i think Wolf Blitzer) on the issue of war reporters and MSM propaganda.
"Not bad, but middle of the pack of current Republican 08 Presidential contenders"
92 lifetime ACU rating is "middle of the pack" ????????
HUH?
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