{"id":177735,"date":"2019-06-25T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/25\/republican-family-values-2\/"},"modified":"2019-06-25T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T23:14:00","slug":"republican-family-values-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/25\/republican-family-values-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Family Values"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>As you may be aware, Duncan Hunter, (the son) of Duncan Lee Hunter, is under investigation for misuse of campaign funds.
What I did not know, until now, was that it is alleged that he spent his money on his girl(s) on the side<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors alleged in a new court filing<\/a> this week that Rep. Duncan D. Hunter used campaign funds to help facilitate extramarital affairs, and they want to show jurors evidence of the relationships at his upcoming trial. <\/p>\n

The filing Monday alleges Hunter (R-Calif.) used campaign money to fund trips, dinners and drinks with women with whom he was romantically involved \u2014 three lobbyists, a woman who worked in his congressional office and another who worked for a member of House leadership. <\/p>\n

In the new filing, prosecutors allege Hunter\u2019s romantic entanglements blossomed as he used campaign money for large expenses \u2014 such as a ski trip near Lake Tahoe \u2014 and small ones, such as Uber rides to and from the women\u2019s homes.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Hunter and his wife, Margaret, were charged last year with using more than $250,000 in campaign funds to pay for family vacations, theater tickets and other personal expenses. Prosecutors say he used his campaign account as his \u201cpersonal piggy bank\u201d to live well beyond his means.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Hunter\u2019s wife, meanwhile, pleaded guilty in the case<\/a> this month and agreed to \u201ctell everything,\u201d according to a copy of her agreement with prosecutors. Prosecutors revealed in another court filing they have texts between Margaret and her husband, who have three children, in which they discussed using campaign funds on personal expenses. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Democrat who is challenging Hunter in the next election, tweeted that Hunter was \u201cliterally in bed with lobbyists<\/span><\/b>.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

The kicker is that he won reelection last year, when he had already been charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you may be aware, Duncan Hunter, (the son) of Duncan Lee Hunter, is under investigation for misuse of campaign funds.What I did not know, until now, was that it is alleged that he spent his money on his girl(s) on the side: Federal prosecutors alleged in a new court filing this week that Rep. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[513,447,368,387,486,448],"class_list":["post-177735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-hypocrisy","tag-schadenfreude","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}