Posted on 01/29/2007 9:12:31 AM PST by SusanD
The attack on Duncan Hunter by the Dems is foreshadowed in a Daily Kos article back in October-- allegations about buying a house from the Resolution Trust Corporation at supposedly less than half of its value.
"Resolution Trust Corporation"
We can take McCain and the Keating Five for this and the Billions bailing out the S&L industry he helped destroy.
I remember they sold a 150 million dollar hotel for 20 million to a company in Japan.
Do you really need to attack a guy who is at less than one percent in the polls?
You took the words right out of my mouth. That was the whole point of the RTC, selling distressed property that had been purchased at inflated values that the buyer could no longer afford to pay for once the market bubble burst. I'm sure every single person who bought a property from RTC bought it for less than "1/2 the value" or they wouldn't be buying it from them in the first place.
Maybe he should have just invested in cattle futures, that would get past their selective code of ethics.
ROFLMAO!!! Good one!
Preemptive.....worried he may succeed.
Bill clinton was at less than 1 percent in the polls two years out from election day. Duncan Hunter has already struck a chord with the conservative base-- witness what happened with the straw poll in Arizona and strong on the border. They are afraid he might catch fire with the base and want to scare them off.
This is a man who intensely disliked McCain (for not real well articulated reasons) and doesn't think much of Romney (including a stated distrust of Mormons).
I found that interesting. One thing about Reagan that was unusual was that he was BOTH the strongest conservative running in the GOP primaries AND the candidate with the strongest appeal to disaffected Dems.
Could Hunter have that same mix?
The answer was, of course, that a few years back Mr. Hunter bought up a severely distressed RTA-held property out in a remote part of San Diego County (I don't recall for certain, but it may have had some fire damage in addition to it's other problems) and he had invested a substantial amount of his own money to bring it back up to code, spruce it up, and make it livable. Of course, Hunter paid the tax bills he received from the county Tax Assessor's Office and he was never in arrears on them. Even though the property was properly permitted for the renovation work that took place, the Assessor's Office never showed up to reassess the property after the title was transferred to Mr. Hunter. In short, if there was any mal- or misfeasance on the property taxes, it was on the part of the taxing authority itself, not Mr. Hunter.
The left-leaning Union-Trib, already having been awarded a Pulitzer for it expose of Duke Cunningham's financial misdeeds, obviously decided to go for a two-fer with Hunter's property "questions" and it was on the story like a bulldog on a ham bone, running several A Section stories on it.
Even though Mr. Hunter explained to the U-T folks what the actual facts of the matter were (and his story was confirmed by the Tax Assessor's Office) the U-T's insinuations of crooked dealings continued.
Finally, rather than seeing his reputation savaged by a thousand cuts from the U-T, Hunter spent his own money to buy a full page ad in the local papers explaining his side of the story, complete with pictures of the hulk of the house that was on the property when he first bought it. He also proved that the property had been languishing as virtually unsalable with the RTA for quite a long time before he became interested in it and paid the RTA the full asking price. At that point, the U-T bloodhounds because almost completely uninterested, and the story died.
That, in essence, is the story as I recall it. I'm sure that the U-T's write ups and Mr. Hunter's ad are still in the U-T archives somewhere for those who wish to follow up further.
Duncan Hunter is the awesome. Attacks will come but it's up to us to hammer, hammer, hammer for Hunter 08!
I knew nothing about Hunter, until today.
He looks like a real conservative. Let's get the word out.
Buy from a crony at one-tenth market value.
Fund a bridge.
Reap the profits.
What is your purpose in posting this?
Hunter's hometown newspaper carried this non story.
My purpose in posting this is to arm people with the truth as soon as the lies start circulating. this non-story, like the Bush National Guard story, will be constantly recirculated if Hunter begins to move upwards in the polls. I am glad that there are posts that further trash the story. Daily Kos already made reference to this story when Hunter announced his presidential exploratory committee. No slur on a conservative is so old and debunked as to render it unusable by the left. Rather than wait until it is surfaced again, I thought it a good idea to arm those who are interested in Duncan Hunter (and I am one of them) with the truth.
One thing I like about Hunter is his willingness to confront accusations of wrongdoing. "Turn the other cheek" is advice for personal dealings, not political survival.
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