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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">history pete w behind 20 pts kathleen brown, prop 187 boosted polls</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-25-2019/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-25-2019/</a></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">john carlos frey sp bk sand and blood</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/rep-duncan-hunter-used-campaign-funds-to-support-at-least-5-romantic-affairs-with-lobbyists-and-congressional-aides-prosecutors/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/rep-duncan-hunter-used-campaign-funds-to-support-at-least-5-romantic-affairs-with-lobbyists-and-congressional-aides-prosecutors/</a><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">
California Congressmember Duncan Hunter is coming under fire after saying he and his unit probably killed “hundreds of civilians” while serving in Iraq in 2004. Hunter made the comments during an episode of the Barstool Sports podcast “Zero Blog Thirty” while defending Navy SEAL officer Edward Gallagher, who was released from custody Thursday as he awaits his trial for alleged war crimes.Edward Gallagher is facing charges of shooting unarmed civilians and killing a wounded captive teenager by stabbing him with a knife, then staging a re-enlistment ceremony over the teenager’s dead body, which he then photographed and reportedly texted to a fellow Navy SEAL. During the interview, Hunter also acknowledged taking a photo with a dead combatant, and said “a lot of us have done the exact same thing.” This is Congressmember Hunter responding to a question about the killing of the captive teenager.<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Duncan Hunter: “I frankly don’t care if he was killed. I just don’t care. And that’s my personal point of view. And as a congressman, that’s my prerogative to help a guy out like that. If—even if everything that the prosecutors say is true in this case, then, you know, Eddie Gallagher should still be given a break, I think.”</blockquote>Edward Gallagher is due to stand trial on June 10 for his alleged war crimes. Separately, Duncan Hunter is facing charges related to the misuse of campaign funds and is set to face trial later this year.<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">dn<div>
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</div><div>Trump is considering pardoning American military members convicted of war crimes. One of the requests for a pardon is reportedly for Navy SEALs Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, who is facing charges of shooting unarmed civilians and killing a wounded captive teenage fighter by stabbing him with a knife and then staging a re-enlistment ceremony over the dead teen’s body. On Thursday, a military judge in San Diego ordered Gallagher free from custody, citing prosecutorial misconduct in his murder trial for war crimes. The court has yet to rule on whether to remove prosecutors or to throw out the case entirely. One of the attorneys for Gallagher also represents the Trump Organization. Republican Congressmember Duncan Hunter, one of Gallagher’s most vocal supporters, recently admitted in a podcast to killing hundreds of civilians while serving in the U.S. military during his deployment to Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. This comes as Trump may also consider a pardon request for Blackwater contractor Nicholas Slatten, who was twice found guilty of first-degree murder in the deadly 2007 Nisoor Square massacre in Baghdad, which killed 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians. We speak with Waitman Wade Beorn, a combat veteran of Iraq and a Holocaust and genocide studies historian. In a May 9, 2019, opinion column in The Washington Post, headlined “”I led a platoon in Iraq. Trump is wrong to pardon war criminals.”</div><div>---</div><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click1.e.alternet.org/bdjbqszvztdydqmmyjfzzyzmmjymvgcnbtzdfpsgzcj_nypyqkjknqddkdrwpjj.html?a=&b=280&c=21989&d=2">Rep. Duncan Hunter continues his defense of war crimes by claiming his unit ‘killed probably hundreds of civilians’</a><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" italic="italic" color="color" rgb="rgb" margin="margin" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, currently under indictment over his misappropriation…<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/duncan-hunter-fake-border-crossing-825094/">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/duncan-hunter-fake-border-crossing-825094/</a><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">
<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">no lnx mojo<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">
<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"> Duncan Hunter (R-CA) posted a video on Facebook and Twitter Thursday that he claimed showed him crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. But there’s one catch: the border was actually almost 100 feet away from where Hunter was, Customs and Border Patrol said.<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">
<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">“So here is the grand border wall in Yuma, Arizona,” Hunter said in the video, pointing to a waist-high barrier he could easily step over. “This is what we expect to stop people, transnational terrorists, families, all illegal aliens from coming across the border. This is it.”<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">
<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">He then did step over the fence and said to the camera, “There you go. That’s how easy it is to cross the border in Yuma, Arizona.”<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">Except no, that wasn’t the border, nor did he climb an actual border wall or set foot in Mexico. A Customs and Border Patrol spokesman told the Times of San Diego that the barrier Hunter climbed was a vehicle barrier located in the United States, 75-100 feet from the actual U.S.-Mexico border, which is located along the Colorado River.<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">Had Hunter actually crossed the border, he would have created even more trouble for himself. The congressman is currently out on bail because he has been indicted for allegedly misusing campaign funds for personal family expenses to pay for luxury family vacations, dentistry and other bills, and even his children’s school lunches. According to the terms of his bail, Hunter is not allowed to leave the country, so if he had actually crossed over to Mexico, it would have been a violation of his bail.<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">[vid]<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">According to the indictment, Hunter and his wife not only spent $250,000 of campaign funds on themselves, they did so while claiming to make donations to charities. For example, they claimed a $200 shoe purchase at Dick’s Sporting Goods was actually hunting equipment to benefit “wounded warriors.” And Hunter’s wife Margaret purchased $152 of make-up at Nordstrom then falsely claimed it was for “gift basket items for the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Diego.”<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">
<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">So, if you consider all their alleged lies about use of campaign funds, it’s not too far of a stretch that Hunter did the same in his “border wall” jumping video.<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">==<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://readsludge.com/2019/01/17/20-house-republicans-donated-to-duncan-hunters-islamophobic-campaign/">https://readsludge.com/2019/01/17/20-house-republicans-donated-to-duncan-hunters-islamophobic-campaign/</a><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">
<h1 class="article-headertitle2_ur- article-headertitle" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.08; vertical-align: baseline; grid-column: auto / span 3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Twenty House Republicans Donated to Duncan Hunter’s Islamophobic Campaign</h1><p class="article-headerdek3U0zk article-headerdek" style="margin: 0px 0px 2.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.19; vertical-align: baseline; grid-column: auto / span 3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Hunter falsely painted his Mexican-Palestinian American opponent as an infiltrator with ties to terrorists. But prominent House Republicans continued to back his campaign with big donations.<p class="article-headerdek3U0zk article-header__dek" style="margin: 0px 0px 2.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.19; vertical-align: baseline; grid-column: auto / span 3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After years of statements that either hinged on or directly implicated Iowa Rep. Steve King as a supporter of white supremacy, House Republicans passed a resolution condemning King following a recent interview where he questioned why using the terms “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” was offensive. 
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republicans like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claim past leadership did not take King’s racism seriously, but McCarthy was in fact in charge of messaging for the party and asked reporters privately “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Republicans like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claim past leadership did not take King’s racism seriously, but McCarthy was in fact in charge of messaging for the party and asked reporters privately “to ignore King’s crazy racist rantings.” And despite years of objectionable statements, King also served as the co-chair for Ted Cruz’s 2016 Presidential campaign.

(opens in a new tab)" href="https://twitter.com/dcbigjohn/status/1085619952961376256" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; text-decoration-color: rgb(48, 232, 189); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; text-underline-position: under;">to ignore King’s crazy racist rantings.”</a> And despite years of objectionable statements, King also served as the co-chair for <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/ted-cruz-picks-rep-steve-king-campaign-national-co-chair-n491461" target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Republicans like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claim past leadership did not take King’s racism seriously, but McCarthy was in fact in charge of messaging for the party and asked reporters privately “to ignore King’s crazy racist rantings.” And despite years of objectionable statements, King also served as the co-chair for Ted Cruz’s 2016 Presidential campaign.

(opens in a new tab)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; text-decoration-color: rgb(48, 232, 189); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; text-underline-position: under;">Ted Cruz’s 2016 Presidential campaign.</a> 
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While the national GOP leadership finally decided to take action on King this week, other members of their caucus with similar histories of racist and offensive statements have not been condemned and in fact receive financial support from their Republican colleagues. 
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The most prominent example from the last election cycle is Congressman Duncan Hunter’s Islamophobic campaign for California’s 50th Congressional District. 
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After the Depart of Justice released a <a href="https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Hunter-Indictment-18CR3677-W.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="After the Depart of Justice released a full 47-page indictment in August implicating Hunter in illegal campaign finance spending, Hunter’s lead began to slip in the polls. So with weeks left before the election, Hunter decided to try a new tactic: tying his opponent, who happens to be a Mexican-Palestinian man, with terrorism.

(opens in a new tab)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; text-decoration-color: rgb(48, 232, 189); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; text-underline-position: under;">full 47-page indictment in August implicating Hunter in illegal campaign finance spending</a>, Hunter’s lead began to slip in the polls. So with weeks left before the election, Hunter decided to try a new tactic: tying his opponent, who happens to be a Mexican-Palestinian man, with terrorism. 
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline;">Running against Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, a former White House staffer during the Obama administration, Hunter began spending thousands of dollars on Facebook advertisements against his opponent. His statements and videos were blunt: they painted Campa-Najjar as a<a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Running against Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, a former White House staffer during the Obama administration, Hunter began spending thousands of dollars on Facebook advertisements against his opponent. His statements and videos were blunt: they painted Campa-Najjar as a “national security risk” with family ties to terrorism who was “working to infiltrate Congress.” Campa-Najjar’s grandfather was involved in the 1972 Munich terror attacks, but Campa-Najjar never met his grandfather, who died 16 years before he was born. And perhaps mostly irrelevant to the situation, but something Hunter disputes without evidence, Campa-Najjar is a Christian.

(opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.facebook.com/ads/archive/?active_status=all&ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&country=US&page_ids[0]=343104205819029&q=duncan%20hunter" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; text-decoration-color: rgb(48, 232, 189); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; text-underline-position: under;"> “national security risk”</a> with family ties to terrorism who was “working to infiltrate Congress.” Campa-Najjar’s grandfather was involved in the 1972 Munich terror attacks, but <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/01/indicted-congressman-falsely-ties-opponent-terrorism/?utm_term=.ffab8d095235" target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Running against Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, a former White House staffer during the Obama administration, Hunter began spending thousands of dollars on Facebook advertisements against his opponent. His statements and videos were blunt: they painted Campa-Najjar as a “national security risk” with family ties to terrorism who was “working to infiltrate Congress.” Campa-Najjar’s grandfather was involved in the 1972 Munich terror attacks, but Campa-Najjar never met his grandfather, who died 16 years before he was born. And perhaps mostly irrelevant to the situation, but something Hunter disputes without evidence, Campa-Najjar is a Christian.

(opens in a new tab)" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; text-decoration-color: rgb(48, 232, 189); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; text-underline-position: under;">Campa-Najjar never met his grandfather, who died 16 years before he was born.</a> And perhaps mostly irrelevant to the situation, but something Hunter disputes without evidence, Campa-Najjar is a Christian. 
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ads argued that if Campa-Najjar received classified information, he would expose our interests abroad. Hunter’s advertisements did not provide actual critiques of Campa-Najjar’s platform or policy ideas. Rather, Hunter was trying to argue that Campa-Najjar was Muslim, and by proxy dangerous. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="The ads argued that if Campa-Najjar received classified information, he would expose our interests abroad. Hunter’s advertisements did not provide actual critiques of Campa-Najjar’s platform or policy ideas. Rather, Hunter was trying to argue that Campa-Najjar was Muslim, and by proxy dangerous. Politifact called a claim made in Hunter’s ad that Campa-Najjar was supported by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood " an="an" unsubstantiated="unsubstantiated" accusation="accusation" that="that" rests="rests" fear-mongering="fear-mongering" opens="opens" in="in" a="a" new="new" tab="tab" href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/nov/01/duncan-hunter-2/did-cair-muslim-brotherhood-back-democratic-candid/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; text-decoration-color: rgb(48, 232, 189); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; text-underline-position: under;">Politifact called </a>a claim made in Hunter’s ad that Campa-Najjar was supported by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood “an unsubstantiated accusation that rests on fear-mongering.”<div class="wp-block-image" style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: table; clear: both;"><figcaption style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0.313rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: baseline; display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom;">[Still from a Duncan Hunter Facebook video ad that ran from Sept. 26, 2018 – Oct. 31, 2018]</figcaption></figure></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although it was the closest election in the district’s recent history, Hunter ultimately won re-election with 51.7 percent of the vote to Campa-Najjar’s 48.3.
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Despite his viciously racist and Islamophobic campaign rhetoric, Hunter’s campaign pulled in thousands in donations from fellow Republican lawmakers. A Sludge analysis of post-election campaign finance reports found that 20 current and former elected officials, all Republicans, made contributions to Hunter’s campaign from their leadership PACs or their campaign committees, for a total of $56,700. 
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline;">Of the elected officials from the House whose campaigns and PACs made donations, seven are retired: Brian Bilbray (R-Ca.), Dan Burton (R-Ind.), Tim Murphy (R-Pa.), Todd Akin (R-Mo.), John Kline (R-Minn.), John L Mica (R-Fla.), and Buck McKeon (R-Ca.),<a href="https://readsludge.com/2018/06/25/is-this-ex-congressman-using-his-leftover-campaign-funds-to-help-lobbying-clients/" target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Of the elected officials from the House whose campaigns and PACs made donations, seven are retired: Brian Bilbray (R-Ca.), Dan Burton (R-Ind.), Tim Murphy (R-Pa.), Todd Akin (R-Mo.), John Kline (R-Minn.), John L Mica (R-Fla.), and Buck McKeon (R-Ca.), who Sludge found may be using his old campaign funds to help his current lobbying clients.

(opens in a new tab)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; text-decoration-color: rgb(48, 232, 189); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; text-underline-position: under;"> who Sludge found may be using his old campaign funds to help his current lobbying clients</a>. 
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline;">The other thirteen were in office at the time of the contributions or are still in office, including Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), Darrell Issa (R-Ca.), Don Young (R-Alaska), Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Roy Blunt (R-Miss.), Sam Graves (R-Mo.), Scott W Taylor (R-Va.), Tom Cole (R-Okla.), and Tom Rooney (R-Fla.).
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Apart from current and former House representatives, former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, the father of current White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, also contributed $5,000 through his leadership PAC, Huck PAC. 
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Elected officials more than anyone know what kinds of events they’re going to, who they’re donating to, and what’s going on politically,” said Professor Robert McKenzie, an adjunct at Columbia University and the founding director of the Muslim diaspora initiative at New America, a non-partisan think-tank. ...<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; line-height: 21px;"><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><h3 class="r dO0Ag" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="l lLrAF" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rep-darrell-issa-accuses-us-attorney-of-political-misconduct-in-timing-of-duncan-hunter-indictment/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rep-darrell-issa-accuses-us-attorney-of-political-misconduct-in-timing-of-duncan-hunter-indictment/&ved=0ahUKEwjd8PSBupHgAhXj24MKHX-bC7wQqQIIQygAMAU" style="cursor: pointer;">Issa accuses US attorney of "political misconduct" over Duncan ...</a></h3><div class="slp" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CBS News-Aug 22, 2018</div><div class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Retiring Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, is accusing the U.S. attorney's office of "political misconduct" for indicting Rep. Duncan Hunter ...</div><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/politics/duncan-hunter-indicted/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/politics/duncan-hunter-indicted/index.html</a>  vid?<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">
<div class="elleafmedia elleafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><cite class="el-editorial-source" kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizeLegibility" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">(CNN) </cite>California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter on Wednesday denied the charges he and his wife, Margaret, face relating to their alleged misuse of his congressional campaign funds, a day after a 47-page indictment on the matter was unsealed.</div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">The Hunters allegedly<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/politics/duncan-hunter-campaign-charges/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;"> used campaign funds to pay personal bills</a> big and small, from luxury vacations to kids' school lunches and delinquent family dentistry bills, according to the indictment.</div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">"We're excited about going to trial with this, frankly," Hunter told CNN affiliate <a href="https://www.10news.com/news/san-diego-congressman-duncan-hunter-addresses-federal-indictment-in-10news-interview" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">ABC 10News in San Diego</a>, adding later that he's not worried. "This is modern politics and modern media mixed in with law enforcement that has a political agenda. That's the new Department of Justice."</div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">Asked if he was innocent, Hunter said, "Of course."</div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-5 cn-zoneAdContainer" data-layout="list-hierarchical-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">Hunter, one of President Donald Trump's earliest supporters in Congress, claimed the indictment was entirely political.</div><div class="zn-bodyread-all" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">"This is the Democrats' arm of law enforcement. That's what's happening right now. It's happening with Trump. It's happening with me. We're going to fight through it and win and the people get to vote in November. ... I think they've used every dirty trick in the book, so it'll go to court when they want it to."</div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">He later added, "They can try to have a political agenda as our law enforcement, as a US government ... as we've seen with (former FBI agent Peter) Strzok, and with the FBI and DOJ have been doing. Let them expose themselves for what they are, and that's a politically motivated group of folks." Hunter on Wednesday pointed to no evidence that the prosecution was politically motivated.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">On Tuesday, when asked about the allegations that Hunter's team raised about two prosecutors on the case attending a Clinton campaign event, multiple sources familiar with the matter confirmed that the charging decision was made by US Attorney Adam Braverman, who was appointed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Republican.</div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">
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</div><div><div> former smoker turned vaper, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is becoming one of the biggest advocates for electronic cigarettes in Congress.</div><div>
</div><div>Hunter has pushed legislation to protect the growing industry, and made headlines this week when he puffed from an e-cigarette during a congressional hearing.</div><div>
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</div><div>“This is called a vaporizer,” Hunter said Thursday as he accidentally blew a white cloud of e-cigarette smoke into another lawmaker’s face. “There’s no combustion. There’s no carcinogens. Smoking has gone down as the use of vaporizers has gone up.”</div><div>“There is no burning,” added Hunter. “There is nothing noxious about this whatsoever. This has helped thousands of people quit smoking. It’s helped me quit smoking."</div><div>
</div><div>Hunter was protesting an amendment that would prohibit the use of e-cigarettes on airplanes, which passed with some Republican support. </div><div>
</div><div>Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who sponsored the amendment banning e-cigarettes on airplanes, thought Hunter’s vaping was funny, particularly because she believes it helped her win the vote of Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.), who had to sweep away a cloud of smoke from Hunter’s e-cigarette with her hand. </div><div>
</div><div>“Imagine what it would be like if you were sitting next to him on an airplane,” Norton joked.</div><div>
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</div><div>Hunter did not respond to requests for comment for this story. </div><div>
</div><div>The California Republican’s show of support for e-cigarettes was no mere publicity stunt.</div><div>
</div><div>E-cigarette officials say Hunter has been leading the charge for them in Congress, waging fights to deregulate the industry, stop an e-cigarette airline ban and protect the right to smoke on military bases. </div><div>
</div><div>Greg Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, said Hunter is a “champion” for the e-cigarette industry. </div><div>
</div><div>“He’s absolutely the most vocal proponent of vapor products in Congress,” Conley said. </div><div>
</div><div>"Being a former smoker, Hunter understands the challenges more than anyone,” said Cynthia Cabrera, executive director of the Smoke Free Alternatives Trade Association. “He’s lived it himself, he’s experienced the struggles of quitting first hand, and he understands that we have an opportunity to help move people away from cigarettes." </div><div>
</div><div>“This guy is out in front of the issue,” Cabrera added. “He’s owning it. Hardly anyone is willing to stand up there and say, ‘Hey, people are dying from smoking cigarettes. We need to look at other options.’ The fact that he’s willing to bring attention to it is great."</div><div>
</div><div>Hunter said last year that e-cigarettes helped him quit smoking traditional cigarettes and could "very well save my life.” </div><div>
</div><div>“Yes, I vape — as do millions of other Americans,” Hunter wrote in a letter to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). “And why do I vape? It is because it prevents me from smoking the real thing.” </div><div>
</div><div>His letter came after Pelosi boasted about killing a policy rider in the government spending bill that would have provided vapers with greater access to e-cigarettes.</div><div>
</div><div>Hunter recalled his own struggles with smoking, dating back to his time as a Marine.</div><div>
</div><div>“E-cigarettes are a suitable alternative to cigarettes, and they could very well save my life, as well as the lives of so many Americans who are making their best effort to quit cigarettes,” Hunter wrote. </div><div>
</div><div>“Ironically, by not supporting the commercial availability of e-cigarettes, with all their advancements in recent years, you are giving your support — whether intended or not — to traditional cigarettes and other products,” he added.</div><div>
</div><div>Hunter is also trying to help the e-cigarette industry stave off government regulation. He is pushing back against new rules from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that critics say would destroy the industry.</div><div>
</div><div>The FDA is in the process of finalizing new rules for e-cigarettes. </div><div>
</div><div>The so-called deeming regulation would give the FDA the authority to review e-cigarettes before they hit the market. But critics say this would essentially be a deathblow for the industry, because the agency has a backlog of tobacco products that could slow approval for newer e-cigarettes.</div><div>
</div><div>The FDA Deeming Authority Clarification Act, which Hunter is co-sponsoring, would roll back those proposed restrictions. </div><div>
</div><div>It’s unclear with the legislation will see action, despite Republican control of House.</div><div>
</div><div>Though Hunter has been vocal about his personal desire to quit smoking, he has also given support to more traditional tobacco products. </div><div>
</div><div>In 2014, Hunter authored an amendment to the defense funding bill that seeking to overturn a proposed military smoking ban. The Pentagon was planning to ban tobacco sales on Navy bases and ships, though it would not necessarily have prohibited sailors from smoking.</div><div>
</div><div>At the time, Hunter defended soldiers’ right to smoke.</div><div>
</div><div>“We sleep in the dirt for this country,” he told the Washington Free Beacon. “We get shot at for this country. But we can’t have a cigarette if we want to for this country, because that’s unhealthy.”  </div><div>
</div><div>The tobacco industry has opened its coffers to help Hunter. Since 2010, he’s received more than $38,000 in campaign contributions from companies that make both traditional and electronic cigarettes, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.</div><div>
</div><div>In the current election cycle, Altria Group, Inc., which has ties to Philip Morris, and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company have each contributed $5,000 to Hunter. Lorillard Tobacco Company, which later merged with Reynolds, donated $5,000 to the congressman in 2014. </div><div>
</div><div>Hunter has also received smaller contributions from cigar makers.</div><div>
</div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/duncan-hunter-endorses-donald-trump-219725">http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/duncan-hunter-endorses-donald-trump-219725</a><div class="summary"><header><h1>Trump lands his first congressional endorsements</h1></header><footer class="meta">By <a href="http://www.politico.com/staff/nick-gass" rel="author" class="url fn" target="top">Nick Gass</a><time datetime="2016-02-24T10:59-0500">02/24/16 10:59 AM EST</time></footer></div>Donald Trump finally has official supporters in Congress.Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) told POLITICO on Wednesday that he will support Trump for the Republican nomination, making him one of the first members of Congress to express public support for the Manhattan businessman who is the prohibitive front-runner after his victory in Tuesday's Nevada caucuses.Also on Wednesday, Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/washington-politics/chris-collins-becomes-first-sitting-member-of-congress-to-endorse-trump-20160224" target="blank">told The Buffalo News</a> that he is backing Trump, saying he has the "guts and fortitude" to get jobs back from China and to take on foreign threats such as the Islamic State and North Korea.In an interview on Wednesday, Hunter told POLITICO that Trump has the strength needed for the job. "We don't need a policy wonk as president. We need a leader as president," Hunter said, adding that he has told his colleagues much of the same thing. "I'm in, and I've been in," he said in a telephone interview.Noting that he and Trump see eye-to-eye on a number of issues, including border security, manufacturing and national security, Hunter said he also likes Trump for another reason. "I don't think Trump wants my endorsement," Hunter said, while also remarking that he has not heard from the candidate himself. "And that's one reason why I like him," he added. Trump <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/trump-endorsements-mean-very-little-219715" target="blank">said</a> earlier Wednesday that "endorsements mean very little."<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">jim h<div id="maincontent" style="margin-right: 226px; padding: 12px; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;"><div class="node content_commentary" style="padding: 0px;"><div class="content">The bozos and boneheads are loose again, regurgitating their own paranoia and propaganda to advance their doleful agenda of fear.Take Rep. Duncan Hunter… please! This self-promoting bozo constantly sounds off, louder than a car alarm on the fritz, honking and squealing about some bugaboo he's dreamed up. In a recent Fox News episode, the far-right California congress critter was in full panic mode, wailing that Islamic State terrorists were entering our country from Mexico: "ISIS is coming across the Southern border," he panted. "I know that at least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas," he breathlessly asserted, adding sternly that while the 10 got caught, "you know there's going to be dozens more that did not get caught?"Really? How does he know that? Mr. Fearmongerer won't say, refusing to reveal his "sources." Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security calls his claim of an ISIS intrusion from Mexico "Categorically false… not supported by any credible intelligence or the facts on the ground."Of course, right-wing delusions are impenetrable by mere facts, and Hunter is not about to believe anything said by Homeland officials working in the administration of the man he considers Satan incarnate, Barack Obama. But – oopsy-daisy – Duncan's delusion got deflated by the Republican-led Department of Public Safety in Texas, which also looked into his foam-at-the-mouth warnings. In an email to state legislators, the agency reported that "DPS does not have any information to confirm [Hunter's] specific statements."It's embarrassing to learn that boneheads like this are actually taking up space in the United States Congress. No wonder they never get anything done. Duncan shouldn't be in Congress – he ought to be sitting in a dunking booth at your state fair."PolitiFact Texas: Islamic State hasn't crossed our border," Austin American Statesman, October 12, 2014.</div></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">bw bk:a week after kia, erik meets with arms serv comm: incl chr john warner; santorum set up, ted stecvens alaska, geo allen va <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">before met w/ delay, porter goss, duncan hunter (hse armed serv) bill young;d hunter booster fence& BW , dana r endorse MM
 may 05 house approve 2k border guards, commit wants to outsrc training 334 mike rogers said cost more 4 yrs harvard than train in 10 mos; fid duty<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">=<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">dad srcwatch:Duncan Lee Hunter, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a>, represented the 52nd Congressional District of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Members_of_the_U.S.Congress_from_California" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California</a> in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.House_of_Representatives" title="U. S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U. S. House of Representatives</a> from 1981-2008. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/ca52_109.gif" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" xmlns:data="data">map</a>) Hunter became the chairman of the U.S. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Armed_Services_Committee" title="House Armed Services Committee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Armed Services Committee</a> in 2002 during the 109th Congress. In the 2006 general election, he defeated Navy veteran/Minister John Rinaldi, a Democrat, and Michael Benoit, a Libertarian. Hunter was re-elected with 65% of the vote, a 33-point margin over Rinaldi. He sought the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States in 2008 but dropped out of the race January 19.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-Dropped-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Record_and_controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1 Record and controversies</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Iraq_War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.1 Iraq War</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Response_to_John_Murtha.27s_resolution_to_terminate_U.S.troop_deployment_in_Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.1.1 Response to John Murtha's resolution to terminate U.S. troop deployment in Iraq</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Hunter.27s_call_for_Harry_Reid_to_resign_after_Reid_declared_that_the_Iraq_war_is.22lost.22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.1.2 Hunter's call for Harry Reid to resign after Reid declared that the Iraq war is "lost"</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Environmental_record" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.2 Environmental record</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#2008_Presidential_campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.3 2008 Presidential campaign</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Controversial_campaign_staff_appointments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.3.1 Controversial campaign staff appointments</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.4 Abortion</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Restriction_of_pornography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.5 Restriction of pornography</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Immigration_and_the_border_fence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.6 Immigration and the border fence</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Misc.intelligence_and_military_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.7 Misc. intelligence and military issues</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Cunningham.2FWilkes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.7.1 Cunningham/Wilkes</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Role_in_legislation_creating_the_National_Intelligence_Director" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.7.2 Role in legislation creating the National Intelligence Director</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Earmarks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.7.3 Earmarks</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#FY2006_Defense_Department_Appropriation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.7.4 FY2006 Defense Department Appropriation</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Ties_to_Pentagon_official.3B_Abu_Ghraib_role" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.7.5 Ties to Pentagon official; Abu Ghraib role</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Titan_Corp..3B_Abu_Ghraib_connection" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.7.6 Titan Corp.; Abu Ghraib connection</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Contributions_from_Van_D.Hipp_Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.7.7 Contributions from Van D. Hipp Jr.</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Biography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2 Biography</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Committees_and_Affiliations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3 Committees and Affiliations</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Committee_assignments_in_the_110th_Congress.282007-2008.29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1 Committee assignments in the 110th Congress (2007-2008)</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1.1 Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#More_Background_Data" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4 More Background Data</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Contact" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5 Contact</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6 Articles and resources</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.1 Resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.2 Local blogs and discussion sites</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Articles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.3 Articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-29" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Related_Sourcewatch_articles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.4 Related Sourcewatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-30" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#Sources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.5 Sources</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Record and controversies</h2><div><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Controversial campaign staff appointments</h4>On February 22, 2007 Hunter named two South Carolinians, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Henry_Jordan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry Jordan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Henry Jordan</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lois_Eargle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lois Eargle (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lois Eargle</a>, to his campaign staff, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a> and then dismissed them a week later because of inflammatory comments that each had made about immigrants and religious minorities.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>In 1997, Jordan made disparaging comments about Muslims and Buddhists while serving as a South Carolina state school board member. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a> Jordan’s comments were recorded during a committee meeting discussion about displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools. He said, “Screw the Buddhists and kill the Muslims…And put that in the minutes.” The remarks were expunged from the written minutes, but the tape was obtained through the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_of_Information_Act" title="Freedom of Information Act" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Freedom of Information Act</a>. Jordan expressed that he didn’t mean for the remarks to be taken literally. “What I want to do is promote Christianity as the only true religion," Jordan said. "This nation was founded to worship, honor and glorify Jesus Christ, not Mohammed, not Buddha.” <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a> Jordan, who has unsuccessfully run twice for lieutenant governor, has apologized for making the comments, but agrees with Hunter’s decision to dismiss him. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a> Hunter had previously referred to Jordan as a “great, conservative Republican leader” and stated that he did not know about Jordan’s comments. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a>In May 2006, Jordan said that science does not support Darwin's theory of evolution and that students should learn "intelligent design" alongside evolution. Jordan told the Associated Press at the time, "I mean you've got to be stupid to believe in evolution, I mean really." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a>On February 22, 2007, Lois Eargle, a South Carolina county auditor, said that an illegal immigrant with three children had asked her for free legal assistance for an abused child. “I told her the best thing for her to do was to get back to<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mexico" title="Mexico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mexico</a>,” Eargle said. The next day, Eargle said that she had been misquoted, but a tape of the news conference proved otherwise. Eargle said that she meant to say that the woman had been abused by her boyfriend and was asking for free legal help to get him released from jail. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a>......<h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Earmarks</h4>Hunter made his earmark projects public through a May 2006 listing of his key funding initiatives for the fiscal budget of 2007. His proposed “wish list” consists of 13 defense projects worth $254.3 million, most of which aim to further equip and protect U.S. troops in Iraq as follows: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a><ul data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$210 million for programs to combat roadside bombs (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/IED" title="IED" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">IED</a>’s), which are the chief source of U.S. troop casualties in Iraq. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$27 million for an inexpensive missile called the "Affordable Weapon" <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a>, which is a multi-purpose cruise missile that, according to Titan Corp., uses available off-the-shelf components to significantly reduce development and production costs for approximately one-tenth the cost of a traditional cruise missile. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$25.7 million for the Navy’s Sea Fighter which, according to Navy News Stand, can operate more effectively in littoral (coastal) waters combat with one tenth of the personnel and one hundred times more firepower than a battleship. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$8 million for the DP-2 "Vectored Thrust Aircraft,” which is a VSTOL, high-speed combat transport aircraft capable of hover, and vertical take-off and landing. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[41]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$1.7 million to create a diagnostic skin test for Leishmaniasis, a parasitic skin disease transmitted by infected sand flies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and 87 other countries. The test would be intended to allow more effective treatment of the disease, as well as screening of military personnel returning to the U.S. from these regions. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[42]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$1 million for a wound dressing that includes pure oxygen to fight infection and accelerate wound healing. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[43]</a></li></ul><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">FY2006 Defense Department Appropriation</h4>In 2005, as House Armed Services Committee Chairman, Hunter sponsored the FY2006 Defense Department Appropriation (DDA) for military activities, which appropriated $441 billion for defense-related activities for Fiscal Year 2006 (beginning October 1, 2005). Of the total figure, $49 billion was allocated for supplemental war funding, bringing the total amount appropriated for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to $350 billion. In addition, it recommended increases of 10,000 Army and 1,000 Marine active duty personnel to sustain the missions. The biggest spending increase in the bill from the previous year centered on Navy vessels. The bill approved adding $2.5 billion for two additional destroyers built by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Dynamics" title="General Dynamics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">General Dynamics</a> Corp.'s Bath Iron Works unit and $384 million for one additional dry cargo vessel also built by General Dynamics. Neither vessel was requested by the Navy. Opponents of the bill expressed concern that much of money was being spent on weapons systems that did not work properly or failed to address the threats faced by U.S. military personnel.<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congressional_actions_on_the_Iraq_War_following_the_2003_U.S.invasion" title="Congressional actions on the Iraq War following the 2003 U.S. invasion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional actions on the Iraq War following the 2003 U.S. invasion</a></dd></dl><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">Ties to Pentagon official; Abu Ghraib role</h4>On his financial disclosure forms, Hunter lists himself as a partner in a rural Virginia cabin with former Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pete_Geren" title="Pete Geren" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">Pete Geren</a> (D-Tx), the current Under Secretary of the Army.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">[44]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">[45]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pete_Geren" title="Pete Geren" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">Pete Geren</a> served as a member of Congress from 1989-1997 and served alongside Hunter on the House Armed Services Committee from 1995-1996. After Geren left Congress in 1997, he served from 2001-2005 as a "special assistant" to Defense Secretary <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">Donald Rumsfeld</a> at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pentagon" title="Pentagon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">Pentagon</a>. He then served as the Acting Secretary of the Air Force from July to November 2005 after Air Force Secretary James Roche resigned in the wake of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Boeing" title="Boeing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Boeing</a> tanker lease scandal. In February 2006, Geren was confirmed as Under Secretary of the Army.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[46]</a>As special assistant to Rumsfeld from 2001 to 2005, Geren's duties included "inter-agency initiatives, legislative affairs, and special projects," and he became the acting Pentagon liaison with Congress on detainee abuse issues when the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abu_Ghraib" title="Abu Ghraib" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Abu Ghraib</a> scandal emerged in 2004. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Project_on_Government_Oversight" title="Project on Government Oversight" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Project on Government Oversight</a> (POGO), a liberal watchdog group<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[47]</a>, states that Hunter had oversight over Geren and, according to one POGO blog, Hunter "actively discouraged Congressional investigation into Abu Ghraib".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[48]</a>Hunter and the House Armed Services held both a public and a closed-door hearing.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[49]</a>Hunter was critical of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Armed_Services_Committee" title="Senate Armed Services Committee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate Armed Services Committee</a> chairman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Warner" title="John Warner" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Warner</a> (R-Va.) and other members of Congress when they moved to hold numerous televised hearings while also pulling senior commanders from the war zone in Iraq as witnesses. "We are at this point disserving our military operation in theater -- that is, all of the troops are in a shooting war right now, who need their leadership -- by bringing leadership out of theater, jerking out these battlefield commanders," Hunter told reporters. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[50]</a>According to a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CNN" title="CNN" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CNN</a> transcript, Hunter also expressed his concern about over-publicizing the abuses: "The thing that I'm worried about is the 135,000 Americans who are acting honorably and courageously will receive little coverage and these -- and these six idiots, if that's the number of people who involved themselves in the pictures that we saw, will receive massive coverage and I think that's a tragedy."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[51]</a>In his opening comments to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and the House Armed Services Committee, Hunter stated, "By abusing enemy detainees a handful of miscreants broke our laws, embarrassed our country and created an international incident. Unlike <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saddam</a>, who practiced such abuse and much worse as a matter of state policy, the United States does not tolerate that kind of behavior. The military will bring the guilty to justice just as surely as Saddam could not escape accountability for his crime."<h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Titan Corp.; Abu Ghraib connection</h4>Hunter’s top corporate campaign contributor in the 2002 and 2004 election cycles (2001-2004) was San Diego-based defense contractor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Titan_Corporation" title="Titan Corporation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Titan Corporation</a>, whose employees and owners gave him $37,825 over that period. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[52]</a>Titan had a $10 million, five year contract to provide linguists to the Army that was expanded to a ceiling of $657 million after 9/11. In 2003, Titan received $112.1 million from the contract, six percent of its total revenues. On May 21, 2004, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Titan's contractor hiring and training practices were systematically lacking and it was "hiring people who speak limited English and have no professional experience as interpreters and translators." Titan personnel were singled out in the Taguba, Fay and Kern reports as participants in abuses at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abu_Ghraib" title="Abu Ghraib" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Abu Ghraib</a>. (Titan, along with Arlington, Virginia-based contractor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CACI&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CACI (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">CACI</a>, is currently facing multiple lawsuits.) <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[53]</a>On March 1, 2005, Titan pleaded guilty to three criminal counts of bribery and paid a total of $28.5 million in fines to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="Securities and Exchange Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Securities and Exchange Commission</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Department_of_Justice" title="Department of Justice" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Department of Justice</a>. The company had been under investigation by Justice for making illicit campaign contributions to officials in the African country of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Benin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Benin (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Benin</a> in exchange for the quadrupling of their management fees. The SEC had been investigating the company for document falsification and the under-reporting of expenses. The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Project_on_Government_Oversight" title="Project on Government Oversight" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Project on Government Oversight</a> called Titan "among the most ethically bankrupt US contractors doing business overseas." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[54]</a>Despite its problems, the Department of Defense waived its right to disbar Titan from any further contracts and the company (now part of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=L3_Communications&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="L3 Communications (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">L3 Communications</a>, which bought it last year), indicated in a shareholder conference call that it would retain the contract until at least 2007. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[55]</a> L3 has also become a top contributor to Hunter; its employees and owners gave Hunter $19,600 in the 2006 election cycle.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[56]</a><hr style="height: 1px; border: 0px; margin: 0.2em 0px; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" /><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Contributions from Van D. Hipp Jr.</h4><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Van_D.Hipp_Jr." title="Van D. Hipp Jr." class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Van D. Hipp Jr.</a> is a former deputy assistant secretary of the Army who made an unsuccessful run for Congress in 1994. He was convicted of taking illegal campaign contributions during his congressional race, receiving five years of probation, three months of house arrest, 200 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[57]</a>In 1998 he joined <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Defense_International" title="American Defense International" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Defense International</a>, a lobbying firm specializing in defense with clients including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Raytheon" title="Raytheon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Raytheon</a> Missile Systems, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ruag_Munition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ruag Munition (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ruag Munition</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarnoff_Corp&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sarnoff Corp (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sarnoff Corp</a>, serving as its chairman as of 2006. A 2006 report from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_Citizen" title="Public Citizen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Public Citizen</a> reported that he had given Hunter at least $11,750 in campaign contributions, making Hunter the number two congressional recipient. Hunter was serving at that time as the chairman of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Armed_Services_Committee" title="House Armed Services Committee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Armed Services Committee</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[58]</a>Other recipients included Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harold_Rogers" title="Harold Rogers" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harold Rogers</a> (R-KY) and Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edward_Kennedy" title="Edward Kennedy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Edward Kennedy</a> (D-Mass).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[59]</a></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DAD:<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">wikiDuncan Lee Hunter (born May 31, 1948) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American</a> politician. He was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a> member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House of Representatives</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_52nd_congressional_district" title="California's 52nd congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California's 52nd</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_45th_congressional_district" title="California's 45th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">45th</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_42nd_congressional_district" title="California's 42nd congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">42nd districts</a> from 1981 to 2009.Hunter was the chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Armed_Services" title="U.S. House Committee on Armed Services" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Armed Services Committee</a> during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108th_United_States_Congress" title="108th United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">108th</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/109th_United_States_Congress" title="109th United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">109th Congress</a>. Hunter sought the Republican Party nomination for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President of the United States</a> for 2008,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> but his campaign failed to attract significant voters or delegates in early primary and caucus states,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> and he dropped out after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Republican_caucuses,2008" title="Nevada Republican caucuses, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nevada Republican caucuses</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>He was succeeded as Representative for the 52nd district by his son, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_D.Hunter" title="Duncan D. Hunter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Duncan D. Hunter</a>. <div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>   [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#Early_life.2C_education.2C_military_service.2C_and_family" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1 Early life, education, military service, and family</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2 U.S. House of Representatives</a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#Initial_election_and_re-elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1 Initial election and re-elections</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#House_Armed_Services_Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2 House Armed Services Committee</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#Other_legislative_actions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3 Other legislative actions</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#Cunningham.2FWilkes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.4 Cunningham/Wilkes</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#2008_Presidential_campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3 2008 Presidential campaign</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#Political_positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4 Political positions</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7 External links</a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#Documentaries.2C_topic_pages_and_databases" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7.1 Documentaries, topic pages and databases</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#Media_coverage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7.2 Media coverage</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#Official_sites_for_2008_presidential_campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7.3 Official sites for 2008 presidential campaign</a></li></ul></li></ul></div> <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Early life, education, military service, and family[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duncan_Hunter&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education, military service, and family" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Hunter was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside,California" title="Riverside, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Riverside, California</a>, the son of Lola L. (née Young) and Robert Olin Hunter.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> He graduated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubidoux_High_School" title="Rubidoux High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rubidoux High School</a> in Riverside in 1966.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> He attended the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Montana" title="University of Montana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Montana</a> from 1966 to 1967,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-pvs-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> and then briefly the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Santa_Barbara" title="University of California, Santa Barbara" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of California, Santa Barbara</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-pvs-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> before being commissioned into the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Army</a> in 1969.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-usnews012907-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> He served in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">South Vietnam</a> from 1970 to 1971 during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vietnam War</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-ausa-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Rangers" title="United States Army Rangers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Army Rangers</a>' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/75th_Ranger_Infantry_Regiment(Airborne)" title="75th Ranger Infantry Regiment (Airborne)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">75th Ranger Regiment</a>, attached to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/173rd_Airborne_Brigade" title="173rd Airborne Brigade" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">173rd Airborne Brigade</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-house-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> He participated in 24 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_helicopter" title="Military helicopter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">helicopter</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_assault" title="Air assault" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">assaults</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-usnews012907-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> as well as in a number of night-time <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance" title="Reconnaissance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">reconnaissance</a> patrols.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-yeager-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a> He held the rank of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Lieutenant#United_States" title="First Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">First Lieutenant</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-ausa-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> and was awarded the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Star_Medal" title="Bronze Star Medal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bronze Star</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-usnews012907-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Medal" title="Air Medal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Air Medal</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-ausa-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> and service ribbons such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Service_Medal" title="Vietnam Service Medal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vietnam Service Medal</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-ausa-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> He has said, "I didn't do anything special in the U.S. Army, but I served with very special soldiers I will never forget."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-ausa-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>Making use of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I.Bill" title="G.I. Bill" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">G.I. Bill</a> in 1973; he enrolled at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">San Diego</a> campus of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_State_University_College_of_Law" title="Western State University College of Law" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Western State University College of Law</a> and earned a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science_in_Law" title="Bachelor of Science in Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bachelor of Science in Law</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Juris Doctor</a> in 1976. Hunter worked farming and construction jobs to supplement his income while finishing his degree. He was admitted to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Bar_of_California" title="State Bar of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Bar of California</a> on December 22, 1976,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-bar-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a> but has held inactive status since January 1, 1983.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-bar-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>Hunter married Lynne Layh in 1973. Hunter's son, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_D.Hunter" title="Duncan D. Hunter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Duncan Duane Hunter</a> (born 1976), a major in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Reserve" title="United States Marine Corps Reserve" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Marine Corps Reserve</a>, was deployed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Iraq" title="War in Iraq" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraq</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2003</a> and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Fallujah" title="First Battle of Fallujah" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2004</a> and Afghanistan in 2007. On November 4, 2008, Duncan D. Hunter was elected to succeed his father as the congressional representative of the California's 52nd congressional district. Hunter has another son, Samuel.Hunter's family attends <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fbcalpine.org/about.html" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" xmlns:data="data">First Baptist Church of Alpine</a>, which is affiliated with the San Diego <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist" title="Southern Baptist" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Southern Baptist</a> Association. Hunter's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine,California" title="Alpine, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alpine, California</a> home burned down during the October 2003 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Fire" title="Cedar Fire" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cedar Fire</a>. The loss topped $500,000, but insurance covered most of it.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a> Hunter was critical of then-Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis" title="Gray Davis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gray Davis</a>'s response to the fire.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>He has a brother, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hunter(scientist)" title="John Hunter (scientist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Hunter</a>, who has worked as a weapons scientist. <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. House of Representatives[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duncan_Hunter&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><table class="metadata plainlinks ambox ambox-content ambox-BLP_sources" role="presentation" style="margin: 0px 135.797px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(242, 133, 0); line-height: 22.4px; background: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><div style="width: 52px;"><img src="/479ad69b-4c83-50ed-921f-a57d62f52b1f.png"/></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 848px;">This <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">section of a biographical article</a> needs additional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citations</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">verification</a>. Please help by adding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">reliable sources</a>. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation" title="Defamation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">libelous</a> or harmful. (June 2014)</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Initial election and re-elections<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duncan_Hunter&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Initial election and re-elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 1980, Hunter was recruited to run for Congress in what was then the 42nd District against 18-year incumbent Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Van_Deerlin" title="Lionel Van Deerlin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lionel Van Deerlin</a>. Hunter was initially an underdog in a district where Democrats outnumbered Republicans by almost 2 to 1. However, his attacks on Van Deerlin's record on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense(military)" title="Defense (military)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">national defense</a> gained traction in a district dominated by military bases and personnel. Van Deerlin did not respond quickly enough, and Hunter narrowly defeated him. He was one of many Republicans swept into office from historically Democratic districts as a result of the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_revolution" title="Reagan revolution" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reagan revolution</a>"; Van Deerlin had been the district's only congressman since its creation in 1963. After the 1980 census, many of the more Democratic areas were cut out of Hunter's district, and he was reelected 13 more times with no substantive opposition. His district was renumbered as the 45th District in 1983 and the 52nd in 1993.In the 2006 general election, he defeated Navy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran" title="Veteran" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">veteran</a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister(religion)" title="Minister (religion)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">minister</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Rinaldi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Rinaldi (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Rinaldi</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democrat</a>, and Michael Benoit,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a> a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Libertarian</a>. Hunter was re-elected with 65 percent of the vote, a 33-point margin over Rinaldi.On March 20, 2007, Hunter announced that, as part of his presidential bid, he would not seek re-election to the House of Representatives in 2008.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-ap032107-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a> After his son, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_D.Hunter" title="Duncan D. Hunter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Duncan D. Hunter</a>, announced his candidacy for his father's seat, the younger Hunter was recalled by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Marine Corps</a> to serve in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan(2001%E2%80%93present)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Operation Enduring Freedom — Afghanistan</a>. During Duncan D. Hunter's active service, his wife, Margaret Hunter, campaigned on his behalf. On June 3, 2008 Duncan D. Hunter won 72% of the Republican Primary vote and became the Republican nominee to replace his father representing the 52nd District.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-ap032107-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a> <h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">House Armed Services Committee<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duncan_Hunter&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: House Armed Services Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Hunter became chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Armed_Services_Committee" title="House Armed Services Committee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Armed Services Committee</a> in 2002. As such, he sponsored legislation authorizing defense department fiscal year activities from FY2004 to FY2007. During consideration of the FY2006 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act" title="National Defense Authorization Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Defense Authorization Act</a>, Hunter offered an amendment to the bill clarifying enacted policy restricting women from direct combat units. Hunter's amendment codified existing Army policy enacted in 1994 under former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Defense Secretary</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aspin" title="Les Aspin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Les Aspin</a> that prohibited women from submitting or migrating into combat units or operations. The amendment was subsequently withdrawn in order for a study to be conducted on the rationale and future implementation of the policy.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a>In November 2004, Hunter and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wisconsin</a> Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sensenbrenner" title="Jim Sensenbrenner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Sensenbrenner</a> withheld their support for a bill creating a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence" title="Director of National Intelligence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Director of National Intelligence</a> (DNI) until specific conditions were met. Hunter argued that the military is the biggest consumer of intelligence and any reforms enacted, including the creation of a DNI, must not endanger the lives of troops on the battlefield. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Reform_and_Terrorism_Prevention_Act" title="Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act</a>, which created the DNI position, was passed by Congress and signed by President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> later that year.In a House Armed Services Committee hearing on November 9, 2005, Hunter strongly criticized a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Logistics_Agency" title="Defense Logistics Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Defense Logistics Agency</a> "prime vendor" buying program that led to the purchase of $20 ice cube trays and a tiny refrigerator for $22,797 (initially exposed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_State(newspaper)" title="The State (newspaper)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The State</a>). Hunter stated that he wanted explanations from the companies in question and the government purchasing agents who had approved the purchases, accusing the latter of "absolute incompetence." He further stated that the purchases are "a real slap in the face to the guy making $13,000 a year who is engaged in a firefight in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadi" title="Ramadi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ramadi</a>," and claimed that "A fairly large amount of incompetence is embedded into the system."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a> On November 18, 2005, in response to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pennsylvania</a> Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murtha" title="John Murtha" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">John Murtha</a>'s resolution to terminate the deployment of United States forces in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraq</a>, to redeploy the forces already involved in Iraq, and to "pursue security and stability in Iraq through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy" title="Diplomacy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">diplomacy</a>",<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a> Hunter and other Republicans drafted a two-sentence counter-resolution that read: <dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.</dd></dl>Democrats condemned the bill as a political stunt; they made much of the fact that Hunter himself didn't support his own resolution. The bill was defeated, 3-403, in the House of Representatives.Hunter became ranking member of the committee when Democrats took control of the House in 2007.On January 31, 2007, Hunter held a press conference on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test" title="2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test</a>, stating that it "represents the commencement of a new era of military competition in space." He contended that the United States' ability to engage in warfare depends heavily on its space assets, and opined that the country must take steps to "ensure our forces cannot be targeted through an adversarial space strike."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a>On April 25, 2007, after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Majority_Leader" title="Senate Majority Leader" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate Majority Leader</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harry Reid</a> declared "the war is lost", Hunter wrote "my highest obligation is, like yours, owed to our forces in uniform, especially during this time of war.... Given your position of leadership within the United States Government, I find your pronouncement of failure irresponsible and disserving to America's armed forces. In light of the fact that this statement has both been used by our adversaries and has exhibited a marked lack of leadership to U.S. troops, I call on you to resign your leadership position".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a> Hunter further wrote that Reid's declaration "can have no effect but to demoralize the brave men and women, who are honorably fulfilling their mission in Iraq, and to encourage our adversaries.... Even if you sincerely believe it to be true, your pronouncement of failure will undoubtedly be used by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist" title="Terrorist" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">terrorist</a>leaders to rally their followers — inevitably leading to increased attacks on U.S. and coalition forces".According to the July 2007 edition of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Flyer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pacific Flyer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pacific Flyer</a>, Hunter and Cunningham had pressured the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Department of Defense</a> to "... advise <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA" title="DARPA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">DARPA</a> to put an immediate halt to bureaucratic delays and get on with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont_Aerospace_DP-2" title="DuPont Aerospace DP-2" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">DuPont Aerospace DP-2</a> testing." The DP-2 is a Vertical Take-Off and Landing, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTOL" title="VTOL" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">VTOL</a>, aircraft designed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DuPont_Aerospace&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="DuPont Aerospace (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">DuPont Aerospace</a> to transport special operations forces, but has been repeatedly rejected by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Navy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Army</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Air Force</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NASA</a>, and DARPA. The design, of which all four constructed models have crashed, has had $63 million appropriated to it since 1991, not including a suggested $6 million for fiscal year 2008. Despite the rejections and reports by multiple military and civilian experts that the aircraft will not fly or hover and will incinerate Special Operations forces rappelling out of the aircraft, Hunter has allegedly repeatedly added funding for the DP-2 in "earmarks" and defended the aircraft in recent testimony to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subcommittee_on_Investigations_and_Oversight_of_the_Committee_on_Science_and_Technology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology</a>. Hunter received $36,000 in donations from DuPont Aerospace.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a> According to his testimony before Congress,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a> Hunter compared the lack of success of the DP-2 to the trials of perfecting the V-22 Osprey. He alleged that such long-term testing is necessary to keep American forces equipped with the best technology.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other legislative actions<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duncan_Hunter&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Other legislative actions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3> On December 8, 2006, Hunter introduced H.R. 6375, which would have required the defense department to post the purpose of all congressional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmark(politics)" title="Earmark (politics)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">earmarks</a> in annual defense bills, along with the location and a grade according to the utility of the earmark.Hunter introduced H.R. 552, The Right to Life Act, on February 2, 2005. The purpose of the bill is to "implement equal protection... for the right to life of each born and preborn human person." In the 109th Congress, the legislation collected 101 cosponsors.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a> Hunter states that The Right to Life Act "would legally define “personhood” as the moment of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conception(biology)" title="Conception (biology)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conception</a>and, therefore, guarantee all constitutional rights and protections, including life, to the unborn without utilizing a constitutional amendment."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a> Hearings for H.R. 552 were scheduled for December 12, 2006, but were cancelled right before the House adjourned.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a>On April 28, 2004, Hunter introduced legislation that he said could "turn parents into prosecuting attorneys fighting a wave of obscenity."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a> HR 6390 IH, also called the "Parents Empowerment Act",<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a> would allow the parent or guardian of a minor to sue in federal court anyone who knowingly disseminates material "that is harmful to minors", or specifically, "any pornographic communication, picture, image, graphic image file, article, recording, writing, or other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">pornographic</a> matter of any kind",<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[30]</a> if it is distributed in a way that "a reasonable person can expect a substantial number of minors to be exposed to the material and the minor, as a result to exposure to the material, is likely to suffer personal or emotional injury or injury to mental or moral welfare."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a>In 1994, Hunter legislatively mandated the construction of 14 miles (23 km) of security fencing on the international land border separating <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_County,California" title="San Diego County, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">San Diego County</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana" title="Tijuana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tijuana</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mexico</a>. In 2005, Hunter introduced legislation calling for the construction of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico_barrier" title="United States–Mexico barrier" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">reinforced fence</a> along the entire <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico_border" title="United States–Mexico border" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S.-Mexico border</a>, citing crime statistics as measures of San Diego-Tijuana fence's success.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a> After successfully adding an amendment to a House-passed<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a> bill that ultimately stalled in House-Senate negotiations, Hunter's amendment was later incorporated into H.R. 6061, the Secure Fence Act, introduced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York</a> Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T.King" title="Peter T. King" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Peter T. King</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a> He has said that if he becomes President, the 754-mile (1,213 km) double layer border fence will be built in less than 12 months.Hunter repeatedly voted against international <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_agreement" title="Trade agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">trade agreements</a> such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="North American Free Trade Agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">North American Free Trade Agreement</a> (NAFTA), the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="Central America Free Trade Agreement" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Central America Free Trade Agreement</a> (CAFTA) and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization" title="World Trade Organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">World Trade Organization</a>(WTO).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cunningham/Wilkes<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duncan_Hunter&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Cunningham/Wilkes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Hunter was not implicated in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cunningham" title="Duke Cunningham" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Duke Cunningham</a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_R.Wilkes" title="Brent R. Wilkes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brent R. Wilkes</a> congressional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery" title="Bribery" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bribery</a> scandal. In December 2005, Hunter directed that the contributions his campaign received from Wilkes and Wade be given to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-hillnews1-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a> "We had options," said Bruce Young, treasurer for Hunter's re-election campaign. "We could keep the money, send it back, send it to the government or send it to a charity. We just felt that because of the situation, we would rather not have the money."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a> More than 100 members of the House and Senate — Republicans and Democrats — accepted money from Wilkes, former MZM Inc. president Mitchell Wade, their relatives, employees or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">political action committees</a>, according to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Responsive_Politics" title="Center for Responsive Politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Center for Responsive Politics</a>, a campaign watchdog group.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2008 Presidential campaign[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duncan_Hunter&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2008 Presidential campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter_presidential_campaign,2008" title="Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008</a></div>On October 30, 2006, Hunter announced his intention to consider running for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_Republican_candidates_in_the_2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="Potential Republican candidates in the 2008 United States presidential election" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican nomination</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,2008" title="United States presidential election, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2008</a>. Throughout 2006, his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Through_Strength" title="Peace Through Strength" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Peace Through Strength</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">PAC</a> raised funds and ran advertising expressing his issues of border security and fair trade. Hunter formally announced his presidential candidacy in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartanburg,South_Carolina" title="Spartanburg, South Carolina" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Spartanburg, South Carolina</a>, on January 25, 2007.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a>
During 2007, Hunter did well in some county- and state-level <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_poll" title="Straw poll" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">straw polls</a>, including a victory at the first GOP <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Straw_Poll" title="Texas Straw Poll" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Texas Straw Poll</a> on September 1<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a> but those results did not transfer to regular polls at national or state levels. Some major polls did not even list Hunter as an option along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mitt Romney</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John McCain</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee" title="Mike Huckabee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Huckabee</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul" title="Ron Paul" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ron Paul</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson" title="Fred Thompson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fred Thompson</a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani" title="Rudy Giuliani" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rudy Giuliani</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[41]</a> When national polls did list Hunter, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Republican_Party(United_States)2008_presidential_candidates" title="Opinion polling for the Republican Party (United States) 2008 presidential candidates" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">he consistently got three percent or less support among Republicans</a>.Conservative commentator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter" title="Ann Coulter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ann Coulter</a> and aviation legend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager" title="Chuck Yeager" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Chuck Yeager</a> both endorsed Hunter as their choice for President, but Hunter received little support from the Republican establishment. Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee" title="Mike Huckabee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Huckabee</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arkansas</a>, who was also seeking the Republican nomination for President, stated that Hunter might play a role in a potential Huckabee administration, noting that he is "extraordinarily well qualified to be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_Defense" title="Secretary of Defense" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Secretary of Defense</a>."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[42]</a>As the caucus and primary season got underway, Hunter began being excluded from Republican debate forums. On January 7, 2008, he held a press conference where reporters thought he would announce his withdrawal. Instead, he surprised pundits by first lambasting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_News" title="ABC News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ABC News</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fox News</a> not allowing him to participate in previous days' televised debates and then declaring that he would not withdraw from the presidential race: "I am not going to let some arrogant knucklehead executive in a glass office 10 stories above a mall in New York City decide the outcome of this election."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[43]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[44]</a>In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Republican_caucuses,2008" title="Iowa Republican caucuses, 2008" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iowa caucuses</a> Hunter finished in seventh place with 524 votes, or one percent of the total. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_Republican_primary,2008" title="New Hampshire Republican primary, 2008" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Hampshire primary</a> he finished in seventh and last place again with 1,220 votes, or less than one percent of the total votes cast. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Republican_caucuses,2008" title="Wyoming Republican caucuses, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wyoming caucuses</a> he had his best showing, coming in third and scoring 1 delegate to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Republican_National_Convention" title="2008 Republican National Convention" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican National Convention</a>. However, in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Republican_primary,2008" title="Michigan Republican primary, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michigan primary</a>, Hunter once again placed last, coming in eighth behind "Uncommited" (which received 15,000 more votes than Hunter). On the last day of his campaign, Hunter won just two percent of the vote in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Republican_caucuses,2008" title="Nevada Republican caucuses, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nevada caucuses</a>, and in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Republican_primary,2008" title="South Carolina Republican primary, 2008" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">South Carolina primary</a> he received only 0.2 percent of the vote, putting him in last place in both states. He withdrew from the race that night, on January 19, 2008. Hunter subsequently endorsed Huckabee for the Republican nomination.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[45]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Political positions[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duncan_Hunter&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Duncan_Hunter" title="Political positions of Duncan Hunter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Political positions of Duncan Hunter</a></div><table class="metadata plainlinks ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation" style="margin: 4px 1em 4px 0px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(242, 133, 0); width: 238px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img src="/e19ab31a-1006-59d7-9d9c-02169e79d990.png"/></a></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 188.688px;">This section requires <a class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duncan_Hunter&action=edit" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding: 0px !important; background: none !important;">expansion</a>.(June 2014)</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Duncan Hunter is a self-described "true <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_conservatism" title="American conservatism" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conservative</a>". Hunter voted with a majority of the Republicans 88.7 percent of the time.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[46]</a> He was a member of the conservative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Study Committee</a>.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">son srcwtch stub:Duncan D. Hunter has been a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a> member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives</a>, representing the 52nd district of the State of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Members_of_the_U.S.Congress_from_California" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California</a>, since 2009 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/ca52_110.gif" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" xmlns:data="data">map</a>). He replaced his father, Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_L.Hunter" title="Duncan L. Hunter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Duncan L. Hunter</a> (R-Calif.), who sought the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Positions.2C_record_and_controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1 Positions, record and controversies</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#National_Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.1 National Security</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Border_Security" style="background: none;">1.2 Border Security</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Taxes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.3 Taxes</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Social_Issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.4 Social Issues</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Healthcare" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.5 Healthcare</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Social_Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.6 Social Security</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#2nd_Amendment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.7 2nd Amendment</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.8 Education</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Trade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.9 Trade</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Bio" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2 Bio</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#2008_elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1 2008 elections</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Committees_and_affiliations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3 Committees and affiliations</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Committees" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1 Committees</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Affiliations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2 Affiliations</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#More_background_data" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4 More background data</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Contact" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5 Contact</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6 Articles and resources</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#Sources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.2 Sources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#External_resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.3 External resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_D.Hunter#External_articles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.4 External articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">son methinks<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;">Critics in the House and elsewhere have said the modeling has been a closed-door process, with insufficient input from the American public, and are trying to prevent the agency from enacting any regulations that account for the social cost of carbon.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An amendment introduced by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) would bar the EPA from factoring the social cost of carbon into regulations unless a federal law is enacted specifically to authorize such consideration, <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/313057-social-cost-of-carbon-battle-hits-house-floor" target="hplink" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; text-indent: 0px !important;">according to The Hill</a>. Another amendment, introduced by Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) as part of the "Energy Consumers Relief Act," would require the agency to promulgate a separate regulation to enable use of the metric.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), who's worked with Culberson on his amendment, is also authoring <a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Bill.pdf" target="_hplink" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; text-indent: 0px !important;">a stand-alone bill</a> with Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) that would scrutinize the process by which the social cost of carbon has been calculated, the role of public and congressional input, and how the social cost of carbon could affect future executive branch actions.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">bs<div class="issue-date-tag" style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">Jul 1, 2013</div><div class="divide-double-line" http="http" hunter.house.gov="hunter.house.gov" sites="sites" themes="themes" duncanhunter="duncanhunter" images="images" line-double.gif="line-double.gif" repeat-x="repeat-x" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; height: 5px; background: url("><a name="main-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);"></a><div id="node-641" class="node node-press-release clearfix" about="/press-release/hunter-rahall-introduce-legislation-following-change-social-cost-carbon-unnoticed" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Washington DC — In response to a change in the social cost of carbon included in a little-noticed federal rule on microwave ovens, U.S. Representatives Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Nick Rahall (D-WV) introduced H.R. 2593, the Cost-Benefit and Regulatory Transparency Enhancement Act.  The bipartisan legislation requires that any cost-benefit analysis and key methods used to justify regulations must be held for at least 60-days pending public review and comment. By increasing the social cost of carbon to $38 a metric ton, government actions that lead to cuts in emissions are considered more valuable, while actions supporting the completion of the Keystone Pipeline and other energy production, for instance, are deemed more costly.“The social cost of carbon has significant implications on rule making and this calculation could be revised and even manipulated to make cuts in emissions appear more or less valuable in any cost-benefit analysis,” said Representative Hunter.  “Tucking the latest social cost of carbon calculation into an unnoticed rule on microwave ovens raises questions about intent, given that the calculation could be used to justify specific actions supported by the Administration.“There should be an opportunity for public review and comment, so that industry and stakeholders can weigh in and provide feedback on cost-benefit analyses and key methods, including the social cost of carbon.  Evidently, this is a process that needs to be more open and transparent, and this legislation will guarantee adequate time and opportunity for congressional and public review.”A Congressional Research Service analysis of the Cost-Benefit and Regulatory Transparency Enhancement Act is available <a href="http://execbrief.cq.com/energyclimate/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/RIA-Transparency-13-6-27.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>.  </div></div></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">son:<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--<table id="topContrib" class="tablesorter datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 10px 0pt 15px; padding: 0px; width: 604px; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><tbody><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">General Atomics</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$54,650</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$20,350</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$34,300</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">BAE Systems</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$44,400</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$11,400</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$33,000</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AT&T Inc</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$38,250</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$250</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$38,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Edison Chouest Offshore</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$36,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$36,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">General Dynamics</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$35,700</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$8,200</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$27,500</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">American Assn of Orthopaedic Surgeons</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$34,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$34,000</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Maritime Officers</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$34,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$34,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Honeywell International</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$34,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$34,000</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Boeing Co</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$31,500</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$500</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$31,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">National Beer Wholesalers Assn</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$31,500</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$31,500</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Northrop Grumman</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$31,250</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$750</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$30,500</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Raytheon Co</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$30,250</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$250</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$30,000</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Every Republican is Crucial PAC</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$30,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$30,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Cobham Management Services</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$29,225</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$29,225</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Assn of Realtors</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$29,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$29,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Cubic Corp</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$28,050</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$5,700</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$22,350</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Crystal Sugar</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$27,500</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$27,500</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Lockheed Martin</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$27,500</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$27,500</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Aircraft Owners & Pilots Assn</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$26,500</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$26,500</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top;">L-3 Communications</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$25,950</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$7,050</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$18,900</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; text-indent: 1.5em; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--<div class="crpItem" style="margin-right: 25px; line-height: 24px;"><table id="summaryData" class="datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; border: 0px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">007 - 2014 Total Receipts:</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.gif" height="10" width="150" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> $4,110,258</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">2007 - 2014 Total Spent:</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.gif" height="10" width="132" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> $3,603,077</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Debts:</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.gif" height="10" width="0" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> $0</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Last Report:</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Monday, June 30, 2014</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="headerWithIcons" style="line-height: 24px;"><h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;">Top 5 Contributors, 2007 - 2014</h2></div><div class="crpItem" style="margin-right: 25px; line-height: 24px;"><table id="topContrib" class="datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><thead><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Contributor</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Total</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Indivs</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">General Atomics</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$54,650</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$20,350</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$34,300</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">BAE Systems</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$44,400</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$11,400</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$33,000</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">AT&T Inc</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$38,250</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$250</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$38,000</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Edison Chouest Offshore</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$36,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$36,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">General Dynamics</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$35,700</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$8,200</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$27,500</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="viewMoreText" style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; margin-right: 25px;"><a name="cont" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00029258&type=C" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">...view more data</a></div></div><div class="headerWithIcons" style="line-height: 24px;"><h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;">Top 5 Industries, 2007 - 2014</h2></div><div class="crpItem" style="margin-right: 25px; line-height: 24px;"><table id="topIndus" class="datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><thead><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Industry</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Total</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Indivs</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Defense Electronics</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$179,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$24,050</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$155,250</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Defense Aerospace</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$176,700</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$19,700</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$157,000</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Retired</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$142,709</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$142,709</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Misc Defense</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$137,965</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$10,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$127,665</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Real Estate</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$133,825</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$73,825</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$60,000</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="viewMoreText" style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; margin-right: 25px;"><a name="cont" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00029258&type=C" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">...view more data</a></div></div><div class="headerWithIcons" style="line-height: 24px;"><h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;">Source of Funds</h2></div><div class="crpItem" style="margin-right: 25px; line-height: 24px;"><img class="src_img_pie" src="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/include/pie.php?type=s&data1=1979047.28&data2=2103227.07&data3=0&data4=27983.46" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; float: left; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 10px; display: block;" /><table id="src_table" class="datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.gif" alt="legend" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">Individual Contributions</td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">$1,979,047</td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">(48%)</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/img/legend2.gif" alt="legend" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">PAC Contributions</td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">$2,103,227</td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">(51%)</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/img/legend5.gif" alt="legend" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">Candidate self-financing</td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">$0</td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">(0%)</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/img/legend4.gif" alt="legend" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">Other</td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">$27,983</td><td style="padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">(1%)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; 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