Duncan Hunter announced his candidacy for president today. Yawn.
Howie Klein has a post on Hunter’s connections to Republican corruption scandals. Hunter is close buddies with Duke Cunningham, Jerry Lewis, Brent Wilkes, and Mitchell Wade – all part of an even greater cast of characters in a series of bribes of Republican House members by defense industry lobbyists. Cunningham is already in jail and Hunter is under investigation.
One of the triumvirate– along with Jerry Lewis and Randy “Duke” Cunningham– of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee that was a major pillar of Tom DeLay’s Republican Culture of Corruption, Hunter is under investigation (as is Lewis; Cunningham already having been convicted and sentenced to prison) for a wide array of corruption charges.
When Fox “News” and the Washington Post first announced he was setting up an exploratory committee, neither could avoid mentioning Hunter’s close relationship with Cunningham, nor the fact that “Hunter has accepted $46,000 in campaign donations from the same contractors at the center of the Cunningham scandal, Brent Wilkes and Mitchell Wade.” That’s the tip of the iceberg and it is suspected that Hunter, like Cunningham, accepted millions of dollars in bribes from Republican defense contractors over the years. In fact, most knowledgeable sources looking into the case, agree that both Jerry Lewis and Duncan Hunter dwarfed Cunningham in terms of bribes taken in. After all, each was infinitely more powerful and more able to make good on the desires of the vast array of bribers who were always so generous with them.
I have a new poll in play on the sidebar: Will Hunter be indicted on corruption charges at some point during the primary season?
Updated 1/26/07, 2:33pm by Matt Ortega: Two videos of his announcement.
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