Posted on 03/21/2007 8:12:59 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
White House hopeful Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) will not seek reelection next year as his 30-year-old son prepares to mount a race for his fathers seat.
Duncan D. Hunter, the lawmakers son, confirmed late Tuesday that the 110th Congress will be his fathers last. The younger Hunter, who is working on his fathers presidential campaign, is in Washington this week.
Rep. Hunters office confirmed his retirement from Congress. My understanding is yes. Congressman Hunter does not intend to run for two offices simultaneously and presently does not intend to seek reelection in the 52nd congressional district, said spokesman Joe Kasper.
Hunter is the only lawmaker running for president who has announced his retirement from Congress.
Until 2005, Duncan D. Hunter was in the U.S. Marine Corps. About a month ago, he says, he moved to Lakeside, an unincorporated area of San Diego. Before that, he lived in Oklahoma, Virginia, Camp Pendleton and Iraq twice.
Once out of the Marines, he says, he moved to Idaho for a year to build homes. Hunter added that he went to high school in San Diego, and graduated from San Diego State University.
Hunter says he will soon formally announce his candidacy, but not on April Fools Day. Not April 1 of course, he said, laughing. Maybe a day after.
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...for 30 years spent without getting zip in name-recognition polls?
For a hard-working LOCAL Congressman...fine....
For a man with Presidential ambitions? Inept.
If he really had the stuff to be President...he would have been CA guv by now.
THIRTY YEARS!!!
Isn't DDH a FReeper ? Best of luck on his campaign to succeed his dad.
Lets see, Rudy only a Mayor.
There are many Sens. & Govs. who haven't done 1/8 for the nation as Hunter has.
Your problem, you are spending the majority of your posts bashing Hunter for the past weeks.
You have an obsession and frankly I don't take you seriously.
Duncan Hunter has been defending this country for all of his adult life. First in Viet Nam and then as a Congressman. A congressman who btw, has made the defense of our country his priority. He has worked for and with the military and intelligence communitities, both vital in our WOT and has the inside track to them. But everyone gets gaga over a former Mayor, who, without Sept. 11th would not even be on the map.
pissant and I have been posting a number of articles from the past for a while now. Articles concerning Duncan Hunter.
The stuff he's been doing for his country is so amazing, it's a total shame that he's never gotten any media coverage. If anything, the media's more to blame than Hunter for lack of name recognition.
At least you're off your absurd apostrophe fixation.
AmazesMe is a troll. Not sure of which type, but the turd needs to be flushed.
Check the posts of our trollish fiend.
A true blue Rudy fanatic, with a bad mouth for all things Hunter.
Perhaps the Rudy supporters need to import Democrats to come to their aid.
Ignorant ones at that.
oooh! I'm CRUSHED!!! SoCalPol doesn't take me seriously!!!
(can't stop laughing....)
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