DUNCAN HUNTER tied to contractors, bribery co-conspirators

[kpete]

TOOOOO SWEEEET!!! (Kpete: This is my congressman, Ouch)

Congressman tied to contractors, bribery co-conspirators
RAW STORY

Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has come under fire from constituents for accepting nearly a quarter million dollars in campaign contributions from missile defense contractors over the past five years. Hunter has also drawn criticism for accepting $46,000 from un-indicted co-conspirators implicated in bribing Hunter’s friend and San Diego colleague, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who resigned from Congress after pleading guilty.

But Hunter’s ties to the defense industry go even deeper.

The Republican Congressman shares ownership in a Virginia cabin with Pete Geren – who served as Acting Secretary of the U.S. Air Force from August through early November, RAWSTORY has learned. Hunter’s disclosure forms filed with the FEC indicate he built the cabin in 1996 along with Geren and a third partner, Al Tierney.

The Associated Press has previously confirmed that Hunter’s cabin is co-owned by Geren, a former Democratic Congressman from Texas. But no publication has yet revealed that the powerful House Armed Services Committee chair has been bunking with the chief procurement officer for a branch of the armed services.


Hunter, who has held office for 25 years, has come under fire for other questionable defense deals. A Dec. 8 editorial titled “Legal Looting” in the conservative San Diego Union-Tribune criticized Hunter for helping defense contractors ADCS and AUDRE obtain $190 million in Pentagon contracts for “automated data conversion” projects. A 1994 General Accounting Office report noted that the Pentagon didn’t want this “help,” as it already had the tools for such work, the editorial noted.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Congressman_tied_to_contractors_bribery_coconspirators_1214.html

[underpants]

1. Dumbest persons on the Hill

Or so I hear.

[babylonsister]

2. Another upstanding citizen about to bite the dust. NOM! nt

That expression 'culture of corruption' surely applies!

[leftchick]

3. it certainly explains the warmongering

I don't know how he sleeps at night. Sending our troops off to war and keeping them there so he can line his pockets.

I wonder what lieberman's portfolio looks like?

[Botany]

4. This Duncan Hunter?

The man in the middle of the couch?

As he was pitching this:


PRESENTATION TO
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

THE CASE FOR REBUILDING U.S. ARMED FORCES

A Special Report Prepared by

CONGRESSMAN DUNCAN HUNTER


CHAIRMAN, HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON MILITARY
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT


January, 2002

[cascadiance]

6. Yup, the Duncan "honey glazed chicken and rice pilaf" Hunter

[cascadiance]

5. Now all we have to do is nail Issa for arson or car theft...

... in those "unsolved" cases that he looks very suspicious and we'll have the "trifecta" here in San Diego! Definitely time to go on the war path for "clean elections" here in 2006!

[ronnykmarshall]

7. Dominos are falling!

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Don't count your dominoes 'til they've

fallen face up on the table.

It's just an investigation now. I won't get excited til they empanel a grand Jury or something!

[kpete]

9. In North County, San Diego

Us Liberals are EXCITED!!! Do not take that away from us. Duke went down, next Duncan...

[WhiteTara]

10. when does Pombo go down?

I really really loathe this man. I amsure in my bones that he is dirty dirty dirty.

[TheDebbieDee]

11. I don't mean to rain on your party, Kpete.......

I just don't want you to be too disappointed if things don't happen as quickly as you want!

[kpete]

12. Just seeing him wiggle

Would make me happy. He has had a free ride for too long!!!

[cascadiance]

15. Yup, we didn't get the replacement for mayor we wanted...

Hoping that Busby gets in now as my congress critter, but that remains to be seen! We've got two steps with Hunter remaining (an indictment and another resignation). Of course if that all doesn't happen before sometime in February, those in Hunter's district will just be unrepresented until 2006. We're lucky we got the goods early enough on Cunningham to force him out in time. Still hoping Darrel Issa goes down too, though I'm sure a lot of folks in Rancho Santa Fe will try to keep him around more.

[LSK]

13. FUCK YEAH!!! BRING THEM ALL DOWN

[Lexingtonian]

14. I've been

keeping an eye on this a--hole since I lived in SoCal in the mid-Nineties. ('My' Congressional nonrepresentative then was Carlos Moorhead, who was in a league with B-1 Bob Dornan for most asinine and racist POS member of the House- and clued me in on how bad the whole SoCal Republican crowd was in a hurry..the Orange County bankrupcy helped, too.) When Cunningham first got into trouble- the real question is only why it took so long, imho- I figured Hunter was into this crap up to his eyeballs too and was wondering when, if ever, San Diego journalists would get onto him.

But if you've paying attention, Bob Filner is some trouble too- paying his wife $500K for 'consulting' services, or something. Maybe that Latino city counsellor, whose name escapes me, gets a shot at his seat. What a load of rot in SD, and what a housecleaning, with Murphy and all that.