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To: dirtboy

Read one more link Scooter - #63.

If you doubt Duncan Hunter ties in this matter - contact anyone who lives in San Diego - or do a little research..

I'm not making accusations - these are well know facts..

Taken from the USA Today - November of 2005

WASHINGTON — A San Diego businessman under investigation in the bribery case of former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham is a well-known GOP fundraiser whose generosity to key members of Congress came at the same time his company saw large increases in its government contracts, public records show.

Brent Wilkes, the founder of defense contractor ADCS Inc., gave more than $840,000 in contributions to 32 House members or candidates, campaign-finance records show. He flew Republican lawmakers on his private jet and hired lobbyists with close ties to those lawmakers.

Since 1994, Wilkes and ADCS gave $40,700 in campaign contributions to Rep. Duncan Hunter, a San Diego Republican who now chairs the House Armed Services Committee. Hunter has acknowledged that he joined with Cunningham in 1999 to contact Pentagon officials who reversed a decision and gave ADCS one of its first big contracts, for nearly $10 million. Hunter's spokesman, Joe Kasper, said the congressman was unavailable for comment Tuesday.

Wilkes' ties to Hunter and Cunningham go beyond campaign contributions. In 2003, the businessman's foundation hosted a "Salute to Heroes" gala to give Hunter an award, just as it did for Cunningham a year earlier. The Wilkes Foundation gave $1,000 in 2003 to a charity run by two of Hunter's staffers, records show.

Wilkes also provided a jet that Cunningham and other Republicans used for more than a dozen flights to campaign fundraising events since 2001, records show.
Providing flights gives donors a chance for hours of one-on-one contact with the lawmaker they want to influence, said Keith Ashdown of the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense.

"Most other lobbyists would give up their second lung to get that kind of access," Ashdown said. "It's not always illegal, but it's definitely a strategy of influence that's unparalleled."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-29-cunningham-case_x.htm


110 posted on 02/19/2007 11:25:55 AM PST by Jake The Goose
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To: Jake The Goose
Like I said. The guy also gave $30,000 to President Bush's campaign. And about $100,000 to the RNC.

It is not illegal to take campaign contributions. It is illegal to do such as a quid pro quo.

So once again, if you can show actual wrongdoing on the part of Hunter, I'd like to see it. Otherwise, please go back to denying Rudy is a gun grabber after being confronted with clear evidence to the contrary.

115 posted on 02/19/2007 11:28:26 AM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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