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.
Mel Martinez won't throw any support his way sadly.
Hey, this guy sounds very interesting. Hope he runs.
How many women or blacks or Mormons have been elected to the presidency?
My apologies about the links, I messed up the HTML. Here is the web page where I got the Hunter info...
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400191
Duncan Hunter is electable. All you have to do is pull the lever.
I provided the link...., but whatever.
Republicans
| Name | Lifetime Rating | 2005 Rating |
| Representative Tom Tancredo (CO) | 99 | 100 |
| Senator Sam Brownback (KS) | 95 | 100 |
| Senator George Allen (VA) | 92 | 100 |
| Representative Duncan Hunter (CA) | 92 | 92 |
| Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (GA) | 90 | N/A |
| Senator Chuck Hagel (NE) | 86 | 96 |
| Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (TN) | 89 | 92 |
| Senator John McCain (AZ) | 83 | 80 |
So, who do you plan to vote for in the primaries?
I think I could stomach Giuliani or Romney if Hunter washes out before the primaries hit Maryland, but certainly not this guy:
Problem is not too many folks know this guy.
And the m.s.m. isn't going to assist him to get his word out there.
It's all obama and clinton add nausium.
Still from what I've seen so far Mr. Hunter has good positions.
That's a pretty pathetic list. Not one Governor. At least Governors have to run a state. The only thing a Congresscritter has to run is his or her mouth.
Is this like Scrabble? Can we reject every one of the candidates on that list and pick from the bag? Most of those cats belong in a bag -- the barf bag. Nothing personal, but that's a very uninspiring list. The ones that are known are pretty bad, and the good ones aren't known.
When drafting Jeb looks like the best option, we are in big trouble in 2008.
I am beginning to get a sick feeling that McCain will win the nomination and get beaten worse than Dole did in 1996.
I like Duncan Hunter. (His name is pretty cool, too.)
And I like your tag. Very very very true.
Dear Antoninus,
"That list needs some serious updating."
Yes. One wonders whether Mr. Hunter would be "the middle of the pack" if we were to add folks like Mr. Romney and Mr. Giuliani, and had some way of factoring in their socially-liberal past views.
sitetest
Only one - James Garfield, in 1880.
The ACU doesn't rate mayors and governors, as stated at the link and in post 44.
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