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1 minute ago, Gil Bang said:

Rabbit also ordered the steak and the 30 shots of tequila. 

God damn rabbit wanted the penthouse suite, the deluxe massage package, dessert, first class upgrade, bought that ugly ass tie on Sky Mall.

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22 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

I missed this earlier.  I agree with your assessment.  His district starts about 2 miles from my house (I'm in the 49th).  He's got a few larger towns (Escondido, San Marcos, and parts of  Temecula) and the rest is pretty desolate.  Indian reservations and fucking desert.  He's got Borrego Springs, and that's the garden spot of his district.  

Temecula has a lot of whites (about 80%), a lot of wineries, and a lot of churches.  It's filled with folks that went there for cheap(er) housing, and they have a miserable commute to OC or San Diego. 

Escondido is a real shithole.  The highlight of the city is it's 29 car washes.  The mayor, Sam Abed, is ultra-conservative and so anti-immigrant that he makes Trump blush.  Dude just straight up hates mexicans, and there's a lot of mexicans in Escondido.   Escondido, back in '06, passed an ordinance making it illegal for landlords to rent to illegals.  They backed down after the ACLU put the screws to them. 

San Marcos is a pleasant little community with a fast-growing Cal State Campus. Last I saw, enrollment there was approaching 13,000 undergrads.  It's by far the nicest place in Hunter's district. 

Same, and yes Escondido fucking sucks

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Duncan signaled he was going to fight any removal from committees, but now has agreed to it.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/politics/duncan-hunter-steps-down-committee/index.html

 

I'm sure the GOP brass is trying to weigh the chance of him still winning reelection followed by an immediate resignation and replacement against the negative headlines his presence will generate for the next 3 months.  Either surrender 1 seat or lose a half percent off every district nationwide.

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3 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

If that's the consensus, by Sept 1 Paul Ryan will have him saying "I've decided that I need to focus all of my energy on fighting these outrageous, Democrat-led charges against me, a U.S. Marine, and cannot simultaneously perform my duties as a representative of etc etc etc."

"The Democrat-led Department of Injustice continues to hate the troops.  I hear they peed on the flag and then took a knee while drawing up the indictment against me."

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/duncan-hunter-blames-wife-campaign-spending-says-difficult-live-san-diego-salary-fox-news-interview/

 

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Embattled Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) appeared on Fox News Thursday night and denied all wrongdoing over charges that he misspent a quarter of a million dollars of campaign money on personal expenses such as a vacation to Italy, dental work and flying the family’s pet bunny across the country.

In the interview, the Republican from conservative eastern San Diego County, who was gifted his seat in Congress by his father, defended himself from all accusations.

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Asked point-blank if he was guilty, Hunter denied any and all wrongdoing.

“No, in fact, the events you were mentioning there were fundraisers,” he said. “That’s how people get to hear me and hear what I have to say.”

Hunter attacked the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, Adam Braverman, who is prosecuting him and complained that he doesn’t have time to fight the charges before his election.

 

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Hunter blamed his wife for anything amiss.

“When I went to Iraq in 2003, the first time, I gave her power of attorney and she handled my finances throughout my whole military career and she continued that when I got to Congress,” he said. “Whatever she did, that will be looked at too, I’m sure. But I didn’t do it. I didn’t spend any money illegally. I didn’t use campaign money, especially for Wounded Warriors, there’s no way.”

Hunter then attacked his “socialist Democrat opponent” and complained of the cost of living in Southern California when asked if his salary was sufficient.

“It’s difficult to live in a place like San Francisco or San Diego or New York or D.C,” he said. “It’s probably easier to live in a place like Kansas or Missouri.”

 

 

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if i were a congressman i’d have a fundraiser at a badass enchilada shack on Tuesdays, the local titter on Wednesday nights, Whataburger every Thursday at noon, the closest, decent Viet place every Friday at 2:00, and one at the best ‘cue joint in the area at 9:00 am Saturday mornings.

bow before your superior, minions...


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if i were a congressman i’d have a fundraiser at a badass enchilada shack on Tuesdays, the local titter on Wednesday nights, Whataburger every Thursday at noon, the closest, decent Viet place every Friday at 2:00, and one at the best ‘cue joint in the area at 9:00 am Saturday mornings.

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Sounds like you need a campaign manager, friend.
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27 minutes ago, Skyline said:

 

I encourage everyone to listen to this interview.  Holy shit.  Not a transcription, but here's what was said:


"You told your wife that you needed Hawaii shorts. She told you to buy them at the pro shop so you could charge it to the campaign for golf balls for wounded warriors.  Is that true?"

"I don't recall that.  I would never do anything like that.  If she texted that to me, that doesn't mean that I would have done it".

This motherfucker's going to jail.   I'm going to stand by the mailbox everyday hoping I get called for jury duty at the U.S. courthouse in San Diego. 

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5. Calls his opponent a "socialist Democrat" after his opponent says that Hunter lost his way in Washington.

 

Actually, Anwar is probably spot-on here.  "That guy that served his country in Iraq lost his way in D.C." (not a direct quote).  Hunter's been widely known as a fucking frat-boy close the bars every night party dude since he's been in Congress.  I won't be shocked if women he's fucked on the side start coming out of the woodwork. And when they do, Mrs. Hunter may start a little under-bus throwing of her own.  

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SAN DIEGO — Ammar Campa-Najjar is the son of an Arab father and a Mexican-American mother. His campaign for Congress has been embraced by Democratic activists across the nation. He is an advocate of tough environmental measures, including a permanent moratorium on offshore drilling, and legal protections for immigrants who were brought into this nation as children.

At 29, he has never run for office and is barely known in this suburban San Diego district near Camp Pendleton. But Mr. Campa-Najjar abruptly emerged Wednesday as a decidedly credible candidate to represent this solidly Republican enclave in a Democratic state, after the incumbent, Representative Duncan Hunter, a Republican, was indicted with his wife Tuesday on charges of using $250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses.

The indictment came on the same day that President Trump’s former campaign chairman was found guilty of defrauding the federal government and his longtime personal lawyer pleaded guilty to campaign finance crimes, which he said he committed at the direction of Mr. Trump.

Mr. Campa-Najjar’s campaign had been something of a stepchild in a state that had been at the forefront of the Democratic battle to win control of Congress, attracting little attention. (“There were other mouths to feed,” he said of the party’s California priorities.)

But on Wednesday, he found himself in a whirlwind: calls from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a run of media interviews and an influx of contributions, as he became the latest rallying point for party activists excited by the prospect of a blue victory in a deeply red region of the nation.

Democrats had been focusing on seven Republican-held seats in this battleground state; that number has now grown to eight.

 

“People are giving me a second glance today who might not have before this indictment,” Mr. Campa-Najjar said, wearing a shirt and tie in an interview at an outdoor cafe here. “I’ve been saying for months now that we need more ethical leadership.”

“The question for voters, especially for conservative voters I’ve spoken to, if we have a congressman who can’t follow the law, how can we expect him to enforce the law?” he said. “I think there’s a dereliction of duty. I don’t think he’s fit to serve.”

[Read: Representative Duncan Hunter Is Indicted, Accused of Misusing Campaign Funds]

At least by the standards of the Democratic Party’s activist wing this year, Mr. Campa-Najjar is hardly a hard-core liberal. In the interview, he said he does not have enough information to take a position on whether Mr. Trump should be impeached. He said he liked the idea of Medicare-for-all, but that his support for it would be contingent on being convinced the government could afford 

 

And he suggested that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in writing off supporters of President Trump. Mr. Campa-Najjar said he was actively recruiting Californians who had voted both for President Barack Obama in 2008 and President Trump in 2016.

“I come down hard on my party and people in my party who write them off,” he said. “These Trump supporters aren’t ignorant. They are ignored.”

Those positions to some extent seem tailored to the decidedly uphill battle any Democrat would face — indictment or not — running in a district where Mr. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by a margin of 16 points.

“This looks like the sequel to the Alabama senate race,” said Thad Kousser, a political scientist at University of California, San Diego, referring to the defeat of the Republican candidate, Roy S. Moore, by a Democrat, Doug Jones. “His district is almost as red a district as Alabama is a red state. Hunter still looked untouchable in this district. In any normal year and with any normal candidate, he would really be in a district that would make him untouchable.”

Mr. Moore confronted allegations of sexual misconduct in his loss to Mr. Jones. In this case, the 47-page indictment filed against Mr. Hunter lays out an wide array of allegations against him and his wife, who are accused of using campaign funds as a personal piggy bank to pay for mundane expenses like dentist and water bills, supplies at Michael’s craft store, groceries at Albertson’s and their children’s school lunches and tuition.

They also used the money for more extravagant purchases like luggage sets, sneakers and new clothes to take with them on vacations in Lake Tahoe, Hawaii and Italy, as well as a plane ticket for a family pet, according to the indictment.

 

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While the Hunters burned through campaign cash, their own bank accounts remained in nearly constant disarray. They overdrew their more than 1,100 times in a seven-year period, according to the indictment, racking up roughly $37,761 in “overdraft” and “insufficient funds” fees. 

 
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“People are giving me a second glance today who might not have before this indictment,” said Mr. Campa-Najjar, center.CreditSandy Huffaker for The New York Times

The indictment also lists an incident in which Mr. Hunter’s wife advised the congressman to falsely describe a personal clothing purchase as an expenditure on golf balls “for wounded warriors,” an apparent reference to the Wounded Warrior Project. That offense was particularly striking in a district that has historically had such a strong military presence because of Camp Pendleton. Military veterans make up roughly 10 percent of the population.

Scott Hickey, an Army veteran who voted for Mr. Trump in 2016, said he was extremely offended by that allegation.

“It’s a form of stolen valor,” Mr. Hicken said, standing at the veteran’s art nonprofit where he works in Fallbrook. “For somebody to say they’re donating to a veteran’s organization, especially a nonprofit, that’s just a really crappy thing to do.”

Mr. Hickey, who described himself as politically conservative, said he had not decided whom to vote for in November.

Even as California has drifted increasingly Democratic, this inland, upper-middle-class suburb has remained solidly Republican. Mr. Hunter won by 27 percentage points in 2016. More than 40 percent of voters are registered Republicans, compared to 27 percent who are Democrats.

But like other suburban districts in Southern California, the area Mr. Hunter represents is shifting — Latinos now make up roughly a third of all residents. Mr. Campa-Najjar would, if elected, be the first member of Congress of Mexican and Arab decent, though, he disputed the suggestion that his background might be a hindrance in attracting local voters.

 

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“I think it’s more of an asset,” he said. “I think people caricature my district. We’re not a bunch of backwards, backwoods, bigoted people. The district’s changing. I think it’s an asset for me to turn out the Latino population.”

Mr. Campa-Najjar — who worked at the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, for the Obama re-election campaign and at the Labor Department —has emphasized his family’s background as the child of a Mexican-American mother and a father who immigrated from the Middle East. When he was a child, his family moved to Gaza for several years, returning to San Diego when a war broke out there. Mr. Campa-Najjar’s grandfather led the plan to murder Israeli Olympians at the games in Germany in 1972; Israeli military commandos assassinated his grandfather, Muhammed Yusuf al-Najjar, in 1973.

“The question now is about the challenger: Is he really the right challenger who can oust the incumbent under fire. Is he a moderate person?” said Mr. Kousser, the political scientist. “Do the Democrats have and spend enough money to get him known as a Mexican-American who grew up in the district and had his first job with a church ministry? Or do voters just stop when they hear his name and that his grandfather was a terrorist? Is that what happens in a conservative military district?”

Mr. Campa-Najjar has, over the years, repeatedly distanced himself from his grandfather, whom he never met, and said he was prepared for Republicans to try to use the episode against him.

“If Hunter has to go back three generations to attack me, that must mean I’m a pretty clean candidate,” he said. “I can go back two days ago and tell you an indictment he had.”

There is no process to remove Mr. Hunter from the ballot under the nonpartisan open primary system that California uses. Still, support for Mr. Trump remains strong in this district, and members of Congress under indictment have been known to win re-election.

Even before the indictment, Mr. Campa-Najjar had raised more money than Mr. Hunter, bringing in nearly $1.1 million by the end of June, compared to $850,000 for Mr. Hunter.

 

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Michael Sugamele, 66, a conservative who supported Mr. Trump, said he did not trust the media and was withholding judgment on this indictment.

“How can you have an opinion about it if you don’t really know the circumstances?” he said. “People get charged in this country all the time who are innocent.”

Erica Salinas, 28, a graduate student who is Latino, said she thought Mr. Hunter had neglected the district’s sizable Latino community as he served in Congress, in contrast to Mr. Campa-Najjar.

“I don’t know much about his politics, but he’s been showing up to events, he has made his presence known,” she said. “Where’s Duncan? He’s under indictment.”

 
Correction: August 21, 2018

An earlier version of this article misstated Ammar Campa-Najjar’s age. He is 29, not 28.

Adam Nagourney reported from San Diego. Reporting was also contributed by Jose A. Del Real in San Diego and Jenny Medina from Los Angeles.

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including a permanent moratorium on offshore drilling

Preface this with saying I want vaping douche bro Duncan strung up, but why do 29 year olds have positions like this?  I can't imagine he'd have any sort of experience to even know the relevant issues at play, let alone enough information to decide one way or another.

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54 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Preface this with saying I want vaping douche bro Duncan strung up, but why do 29 year olds have positions like this?  I can't imagine he'd have any sort of experience to even know the relevant issues at play, let alone enough information to decide one way or another.

I will give the guy credit that he joined the military immediately after 9/11 and was an officer in Afghanistan and/or Iraq (I forget which) but it seems his main qualification to the job was that he shares a name with his dad, who previously held that seat for close to 2 decades.  

Is Hunter looking to toss his wife under the bus for spending his campaign dollars on their personal life?    

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9 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Just something that annoys me, but whyyyyyy do the Democrats always stumble into candidates like this? Perfect in every way except they lack the fucking Z on their name in this case? 

Yeah I wonder how different this race would be if he took his mother's last name instead of his father's.  I'm making assumptions on her last name based on the fact they keep bringing up she's Mexican, by the way.

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2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I will give the guy credit that he joined the military immediately after 9/11 and was an officer in Afghanistan and/or Iraq (I forget which) but it seems his main qualification to the job was that he shares a name with his dad, who previously held that seat for close to 2 decades.  

Is Hunter looking to toss his wife under the bus for spending his campaign dollars on their personal life?    

I was quoting that article on his opponent saying he wants a permanent moratorium on offshore drilling.  I just can't imagine he knows anything about what he is saying.  You run a platform like that in Houston, you are liable to get shot.

You nailed it as to why Duncan is in office today.  

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3 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

I was quoting that article on his opponent saying he wants a permanent moratorium on offshore drilling.  I just can't imagine he knows anything about what he is saying.  You run a platform like that in Houston, you are liable to get shot.

Because nearly 70% of Californians oppose offshore drilling in California waters

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Ok.  I didn't 

2 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

I was quoting that article on his opponent saying he wants a permanent moratorium on offshore drilling.  I just can't imagine he knows anything about what he is saying.  You run a platform like that in Houston, you are liable to get shot.

You nailed it as to why Duncan is in office today.  

Ah.  My bad.  I didn't follow the chain and thought you were talking about Hunter.    Seems like talk about moratorium permanent is PR only.  It's only as permanent as future politicians want to make it.   It's possible to make some laws difficult to overturn but rarely impossible.

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30 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

I was quoting that article on his opponent saying he wants a permanent moratorium on offshore drilling.  I just can't imagine he knows anything about what he is saying.  You run a platform like that in Houston, you are liable to get shot.

You nailed it as to why Duncan is in office today.  

lol what

It's almost like different parts of the country have different views on things.

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13 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

Mr. Campa-Najjar has, over the years, repeatedly distanced himself from his grandfather, whom he never met, and said he was prepared for Republicans to try to use the episode against him.

“If Hunter has to go back three generations to attack me, that must mean I’m a pretty clean candidate,” he said. “I can go back two days ago and tell you an indictment he had.”

LOL. 

It really is amazing how the GOP seems to have latched into so many people like Hunter, but the question is, were they attracted by a corrupt GOP, or did the GOP become more corrupt because of who it attracted. 

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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - A federal indictment is not having a detrimental effect on Rep. Duncan Hunter’s bid to keep his 50th Congressional District seat, according to a new survey.

In a 10News/San Diego Union-Tribune poll conducted by SurveyUSA, 77 percent of likely Republican voters from the 50th District said they would still vote for Hunter if the election were held today. The poll also showed 64 percent of GOP voters believe the federal charges against the San Diego congressman are politically motivated.

Meanwhile, 62 percent of Democrats from the 50th District said Hunter should resign from his seat now. Sixty-four percent of Republican voters said Hunter should stay in office.

Prior to the federal indictment against Hunter and his wife Margaret for accusations of misusing campaign funds, the longtime congressman held a good-sized lead over Democratic opponent Ammar Campa-Najjar.

DUNCAN HUNTER INDICTED:

In a May poll, Hunter held a 43 percent to 10 percent lead over Campa-Najjar. Hunter defeated his challengers in the June primary election, paving the way for a November showdown with Campa-Najjar.

In the latest poll, which was conducted days after the indictment was announced, Campa-Najjar has made the race close. He trails Hunter 47 percent to 39 percent, the poll showed.

The poll also showed 42 percent of voters would elect Campa-Najjar if Hunter were to step down and end his reelection bid, but his name remained on the ballot.

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18 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

Jet setting rabbits and the grandson of the guy who led the assassination of the Israeli olympians (and was later killed by Israeli commandos)? Could that race get anymore interesting? 

Wait.  That is the terorist granddad?   I thought they just chose a random picture  for the fox news thing above. 

 

I gotta be honest.  That’s a pretty big black mark in my book.  I’m sure Ted Bundy has some lovely relatives, but I’d be awfully cautious around them.   

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