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Home Front: Culture Wars
Duncan Hunter Announces He Will Resign from Congress
2020-01-08
[BREITBART] Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) announced Tuesday that he will resign from Congress next week after he pleaded guilty last month to the misuse of campaign funds.

In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
 (D-CA), Hunter, who first began serving in Congress in 2009, said he plans to step down from his seat on January 13th. Hunter also stated in the letter that he was proud of "giving a voice to our men and women in uniform" while he served as a member of the Armed Services Committee.

Both Hunter and his wife, Margaret, were indicted in August 2018 on charges of misusing more than $250,000 in campaign funds. Last month, after he pleaded guilty, Hunter indicated that he would be leaving his position.

Hunter will be sentenced in March and could face up to five years behind bars.
Posted by:Fred

#10  A huge disappointment. It's gratifying that voters in that district reelected him in 2018 in spite of his crimes instead of electing Ammar Campa-Najjar, the Democrat who ran against him. That was very wise of the voters in that district. Whatever Hunter did, the time to deal with it was in the next election. Scary how often crooked Republicans get replaced by crooked Democrats.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-01-08 12:37  

#9  Yeah,...Cunningham's situation was worse for what he did.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2020-01-08 11:35  

#8  I knew a fella that flew with Duke Cunningham in Vietnam. He told me the entire story, a very, very sad story. It almost brought him to tears.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-08 11:22  

#7  I thought that at first, but he also couldn't keep it in his pants and made plenty of his own bad decisions. His Dad is embarrassed
Posted by: Frank G   2020-01-08 11:18  

#6  I suspect Duncan's problem may have been his bunkmate.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-08 11:05  

#5  Sad that hunter and Duke Cunningham both went down in flames. I liked both and yet they couldn't keep it clean in a state where you know the knives are always out when you have an (R) by your name.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-01-08 10:50  

#4  Hunter was my congresscritter and betrayed us with his escapades. I hope he'll be replaced by Brian Jones or Darrell Issa (who's carpetbagging in but has $$$)
Posted by: Frank G   2020-01-08 10:19  

#3  Too bad the Hunters couldn't live on a $174K salary + great benefits + all the (legal for Congress) insider trading in the stock market. America feels for them.
Posted by: Glinter Jaique8353   2020-01-08 09:47  

#2  On the one hand, a republican politician, especially in a blue state, should understand he has to be squeaky clean. On the other hand, once they get to Washington DC, they all go native and rationalize that "everyone does it." Add the fact that state level GOP organizations repeatedly let freaks like Roy Moore and Todd Akin into the ranks virtually unvetted and you have a recipe for problems.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-01-08 08:00  

#1  It bad being Republican.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-01-08 07:57  

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