American politician (born 1948)
Duncan L. Hunter
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In office
January 3, 2007 ? January 3, 2009
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Preceded by
| Ike Skelton
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Succeeded by
| John McHugh
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In office
January 3, 2003 ? January 3, 2007
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Preceded by
| Bob Stump
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Succeeded by
| Ike Skelton
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In office
January 3, 1981 ? January 3, 2009
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Preceded by
| Lionel Van Deerlin
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Succeeded by
| Duncan D. Hunter
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Constituency
| 42nd district
(1981?83)
45th district
(1983?93)
52nd district
(1993?2009)
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Born
| Duncan Lee Hunter
(
1948-05-31
)
May 31, 1948
(age 75)
Riverside, California
, U.S.
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Political party
| Republican
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Spouse
| Lynne Hunter
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Children
| 2 (including
Duncan
)
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Education
| University of Montana
University of California, Santa Barbara
Western State University
(
BS
,
JD
)
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Allegiance
| United States of America
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Branch/service
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United States Army
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Years of service
| 1969?1971
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Rank
| First Lieutenant
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Unit
| 75th Infantry Regiment (Ranger)
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Battles/wars
| Vietnam War
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Awards
| Bronze Star
Air Medal
Vietnam Service Medal
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Duncan Lee Hunter
(born May 31, 1948) is an American politician. He was a
Republican
member of the
House of Representatives
from
California's 52nd
,
45th
and
42nd districts
from 1981 to 2009.
Hunter was the chairman of the
House Armed Services Committee
during the
108th
and
109th Congress
. Hunter sought the
Republican Party nomination
for
President of the United States
for 2008,
[1]
but his campaign failed to attract significant voters or delegates in early primary and caucus states,
[2]
and he dropped out after the
Nevada Republican caucuses
.
[3]
He was succeeded as representative for the 52nd district by his son,
Duncan D. Hunter
.
Early life, education, military service, and family
[
edit
]
Hunter was born in
Riverside, California
, the son of Lola Lee (nee Young) (d. 2004) and Robert Olin Hunter (1905?2006).
[4]
He graduated from
Rubidoux High School
in Riverside in 1966.
[5]
He attended the
University of Montana
from 1966 to 1967,
[6]
and then briefly the
University of California, Santa Barbara
,
[6]
before being commissioned into the
United States Army
in 1969.
[7]
He served in
South Vietnam
from 1970 to 1971 during the
Vietnam War
[8]
in the
Army Rangers
'
75th Infantry Regiment
, attached to the
173rd Airborne Brigade
.
[9]
He participated in 24
helicopter
assaults
[7]
as well as in a number of night-time
reconnaissance
patrols.
[10]
He held the rank of
first lieutenant
,
[8]
and was awarded the
Bronze Star
,
[7]
Air Medal
,
[8]
and service ribbons such as the
Vietnam Service Medal
.
[8]
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."
[8]
Making use of the
G.I. Bill
in 1973, he enrolled at the
San Diego
campus of the
Western State University College of Law
(now
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
) and earned a
Bachelor of Science in Law
and
Juris Doctor
in 1976. Hunter worked farming and construction jobs to supplement his income while finishing his degree. He was admitted to the
State Bar of California
on December 22, 1976,
[11]
but has held inactive status since January 1, 1983.
[11]
[12]
Hunter married Lynne Layh in 1973. Hunter's son,
Duncan Duane Hunter
(born 1976), a major in the
United States Marine Corps Reserve
, was deployed to
Iraq
in
2003
and
2004
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. On August 21, 2018, Duncan D. Hunter and his wife Margaret, were indicted for criminal activity.
[13]
In June 2019, federal prosecutors showed that from 2009 to 2016, Hunter had spent campaign funds on extramarital affairs with five women, including lobbyists and congressional staff. In December 2019, Hunter changed his plea to guilty on one count of misusing campaign funds. On March 17, 2020, Hunter was sentenced by the U.S. District Court Southern District of California to 11 months in prison.
Hunter's family attends First Baptist Church of Alpine, which is affiliated with the San Diego
Southern Baptist
Association.
[
citation needed
]
Hunter's
Alpine, California
home burned down during the October 2003
Cedar Fire
. The loss was over $500,000, but insurance covered most of it.
[14]
Hunter was critical of Governor
Gray Davis
's response to the fire.
[15]
Hunter has another son, Samuel. He has a brother,
John Hunter
, who has worked as a weapons scientist.
U.S. House of Representatives
[
edit
]
Initial election and re-elections
[
edit
]
In 1980, Hunter was recruited to run for Congress in what was then the 42nd District against 18-year incumbent Democrat
Lionel Van Deerlin
. 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
national defense
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 "
Reagan revolution
"; 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. During this time, he only won less than 60 percent of the vote once, when he was held to 53.8 percent in 1992. His district was renumbered as the 45th District in 1983 and the 52nd in 1993.
[16]
In the 2006 general election, he defeated Navy
veteran
/
minister
John Rinaldi, a
Democrat
, and Michael Benoit,
[17]
a
Libertarian
. 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 a 15th term in the House of Representatives in 2008.
[18]
After his son,
Duncan D. Hunter
, announced his candidacy for his father's seat, the younger Hunter was recalled by the
United States Marine Corps
to serve in the
Operation Enduring Freedom ? Afghanistan
. 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.
[18]
House Armed Services Committee
[
edit
]
Hunter became chairman of the
House Armed Services Committee
in 2002. As such, he sponsored legislation authorizing defense department fiscal year activities from FY2004 to FY2007. During consideration of the FY2006
Defense Authorization Act
, 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
Defense Secretary
Les Aspin
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.
[19]
In November 2004, Hunter and
Wisconsin
Congressman
Jim Sensenbrenner
withheld their support for a bill creating a
Director of National Intelligence
(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
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
, which created the DNI position, was passed by Congress and signed by President
George W. Bush
later that year.
In a House Armed Services Committee hearing on November 9, 2005, Hunter strongly criticized a
Defense Logistics Agency
"prime vendor" buying program that led to the purchase of $20 ice cube trays and a tiny refrigerator for $22,797 (initially exposed by
The State
). 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
Ramadi
," and claimed that "A fairly large amount of incompetence is embedded into the system."
[20]
[21]
On November 18, 2005, in response to
Pennsylvania
Congressman
John Murtha
's resolution to terminate the deployment of United States forces in
Iraq
, to redeploy the forces already involved in Iraq, and to "pursue security and stability in Iraq through
diplomacy
",
[22]
Hunter and other Republicans drafted a two-sentence counter-resolution that read:
- Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.
- Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.
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
2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test
, 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."
[23]
On April 25, 2007, after
Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid
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".
[24]
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 terrorist leaders to rally their followers ? inevitably leading to increased attacks on U.S. and coalition forces".
According to the July 2007 edition of
Pacific Flyer
, Hunter and Cunningham had pressured the
Department of Defense
to "...
advise
DARPA
to put an immediate halt to bureaucratic delays and get on with the DuPont Aerospace DP-2 testing." The DP-2 is a Vertical Take-Off and Landing, or
VTOL
, aircraft designed by DuPont Aerospace to transport special operations forces, but has been repeatedly rejected by the
United States Navy
,
United States Army
,
United States Air Force
,
NASA
, 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 Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology. Hunter received $36,000 in donations from DuPont Aerospace.
[25]
According to his testimony before Congress,
[26]
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.
In April 2023 NPR reported on a "friendly fire" mortar incident in Iraq that occurred in 2004, but had been covered up. Hunter's son Duncan D. Hunter was serving at the command center that ordered the mortar fire, and may have been responsible for the order. Lt. Gen. James Conway, top Marine officer in Iraq, signed off on the report that declined to exact punishments from those responsible for the incident. He did so two days after a personal visit from Hunter. The report was only disseminated to family members three years later, by order of a congressional investigation carried out after Hunter had left the committee. The Marine Corps claimed to be unable to fulfill NPR's FOIA request for the report, as it was said to be "missing."
[27]
Other legislative actions
[
edit
]
In November 1997, Hunter was one of eighteen Republicans in the House to co-sponsor
a resolution
by
Bob Barr
that sought to launch an
impeachment inquiry
into President
Bill Clinton
.
[28]
[29]
The resolution did not specify any charges or allegations.
[29]
This was an early effort to
impeach
Clinton, predating the eruption of the
Clinton?Lewinsky scandal
. The eruption of that scandal would ultimately lead to a more serious effort to impeach Clinton in 1998.
[30]
On October 8, 1998, Hunter voted in favor of legislation that was passed to open
an impeachment inquiry
.
[31]
On December 19, 1998
, Hunter voted in favor of all four proposed
articles of impeachment
against Clinton (only two of which received the needed majority of votes needed to be adopted).
[32]
[33]
[34]
[35]
On December 8, 2006, Hunter introduced H.R. 6375, which would have required the defense department to post the purpose of all congressional
earmarks
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.
[36]
Hunter states that The Right to Life Act "would legally define "personhood" as the moment of
conception
and, therefore, guarantee all constitutional rights and protections, including life, to the unborn without utilizing a constitutional amendment."
[37]
Hearings for H.R. 552 were scheduled for December 12, 2006, but were cancelled right before the House adjourned.
[38]
On April 28, 2004, Hunter introduced legislation that he said could "turn parents into prosecuting attorneys fighting a wave of obscenity."
[39]
HR 6390 IH, also called the "Parents Empowerment Act",
[40]
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
pornographic
matter of any kind",
[41]
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."
[42]
In 1994, Hunter legislatively mandated the construction of 14 miles (23 km) of security fencing on the international land border separating
San Diego County
and
Tijuana
,
Mexico
. In 2005, Hunter introduced legislation calling for the construction of a
reinforced fence
along the entire
U.S.-Mexico border
, citing crime statistics as measures of San Diego-Tijuana fence's success.
[43]
After successfully adding an amendment to a House-passed
[44]
bill that ultimately stalled in House?Senate negotiations, Hunter's amendment was later incorporated into H.R. 6061, the Secure Fence Act, introduced by
New York
Congressman
Peter T. King
.
[45]
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
trade agreements
such as the
North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA), the
Central America Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA) and the
World Trade Organization
(WTO).
[46]
Cunningham / Wilkes
[
edit
]
Hunter was not implicated in the
Duke Cunningham
/
Brent R. Wilkes
congressional
bribery
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.
[47]
"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."
[48]
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
political action committees
, according to
OpenSecrets
, a campaign watchdog group.
2008 Presidential campaign
[
edit
]
On October 30, 2006, Hunter announced his intention to consider running for the
Republican nomination
for
President
in
2008
. Throughout 2006, his
Peace Through Strength
PAC
raised funds and ran advertising expressing his issues of border security and fair trade.
Hunter formally announced his presidential candidacy in
Spartanburg, South Carolina
, on January 25, 2007.
[49]
Wikinews has related news:
During 2007, Hunter did well in some county- and state-level
straw polls
, including a victory at the first GOP
Texas Straw Poll
on September 1,
[50]
but those results did not transfer to regular polls at national or state levels.
Conservative commentator
Ann Coulter
and aviation legend
Chuck Yeager
both endorsed Hunter as their choice for President, but Hunter received little support from the Republican establishment. Governor
Mike Huckabee
of
Arkansas
, 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
Secretary of Defense
."
[51]
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
ABC News
and
Fox News
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."
[52]
[53]
In the
Iowa caucuses
Hunter finished in seventh place with 524 votes, or one percent of the total. In the
New Hampshire primary
he finished in seventh and last place again with 1,220 votes, or less than one percent of the total votes cast. In the
Wyoming caucuses
he had his best showing, coming in third and scoring 1 delegate to the
Republican National Convention
. However, in the
Michigan primary
, Hunter once again placed last, coming in eighth behind "Uncommitted" (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
Nevada caucuses
, and in the
South Carolina primary
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.
[54]
Political positions and voting record
[
edit
]
Hunter voted with a majority of the Republicans 88.7 percent of the time.
[55]
He was a member of the conservative
Republican Study Committee
. Hunter is a member of the
United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus
.
[56]
Hunter is a staunch
conservative
.
[57]
In January 2007, when he announced his presidential candidacy, Hunter had a lifetime rating of 92% from the
American Conservative Union
, indicating a highly conservative voting record.
[58]
Economy
[
edit
]
Hunter was a supporter of the
FairTax
plan, which would replace all
federal income taxes
with a federal
sales tax
.
[59]
Environment
[
edit
]
On environmental issues, Hunter score a 9% (out of 100%) lifetime voting score from the
League of Conservation Voters
, an environmental group.
[60]
He supporting
drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
(ANWR),
[59]
voting twice to open the area to drilling.
[60]
Hunter also voted for legislation reducing protections for
endangered species
.
[59]
Hunter twice co-sponsored legislation to end the moratorium on
offshore drilling in American waters
.
[60]
Hunter acknowledged the occurrence of
climate change
, but called the position of former Vice President
Al Gore
, who agrees with the
scientific consensus on climate change
, "doomsday alarmism".
[60]
Foreign relations
[
edit
]
During his tenure in the House and his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, Hunter was a staunch supporter of the
Iraq War
.
[58]
[59]
Although Hunter generally favored
free trade
,
[58]
he condemned Chinese currency devaluation and expressed a desire to protect the U.S. manufacturing sector,
[57]
and proposed imposing
tariffs
on imports from China.
[59]
Healthcare
[
edit
]
Hunter voted for the
2003 legislation
that created
Medicare Part D
, a partial
prescription drug
benefit for seniors.
[59]
LGBT rights
[
edit
]
Hunter opposed
same-sex marriage
, and proposed a
constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman
.
[59]
Military
[
edit
]
As chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Hunter "developed a reputation for never meeting a weapons system he didn't like."
[61]
Hunter used
congressional earmarks
to "steer money" to defense projects that the Defense Department did not want, including the
L-3 Communications
Sea Fighter
and the
DuPont Aerospace DP-1
.
[61]
Hunter defended the use of earmarks by saying that it was the constitutional prerogative of Congress to decide how specifically federal monies should be spent.
[62]
Social issues
[
edit
]
Abortion
[
edit
]
He is
opposed to abortion
in all cases and proposed a constitutional amendment to make abortion illegal.
[59]
[61]
He also introduced a number of bills in the House to restrict abortion.
[59]
Hunter also opposed
embryonic stem cell research
,
[58]
and voted against the
Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005
.
[59]
Immigration
[
edit
]
Hunter was outspoken in his opposition to
illegal immigration
, favoring strict measures to combat it.
[57]
[58]
He was a leading voice pushing for faster and more extensive construction of a
U.S.?Mexico border
fence, naming the border "our biggest homeland security problem" and listing a fence as a top priority.
[63]
Hunter criticized the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
under the
George W. Bush administration
for planning to build just half of the 700 miles of U.S.?Mexico border barrier authorized by the
Secure Fence Act of 2006
.
[63]
Capital punishment
[
edit
]
Hunter supported
death penalty
and voted against legislation to restrict its use.
[59]
Religious liberty
[
edit
]
Hunter was a major supporter of the
controversial Mount Soledad cross
, clashing with advocates for
separation of church and state
over the issue.
[59]
Education
[
edit
]
Hunter favored
school vouchers
and
homeschooling
.
[59]
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]
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.
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.
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.
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