{"id":181697,"date":"2016-04-10T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/10\/dynastic-politics-at-its-finest\/"},"modified":"2016-04-10T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T00:41:00","slug":"dynastic-politics-at-its-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/10\/dynastic-politics-at-its-finest\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynastic Politics at Its Finest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duncan D. Hunter, the son of Duncan L. Hunter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/2016\/apr\/07\/hunter-repay\/\">has been caught spending campaign funds on personal expenses<\/a>, a federal crime:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rep. Duncan Hunter \u2014 whose spending of campaign funds on video games made national news this week \u2014 said on Thursday that he\u2019s cutting short a trip to Israel to return to the United States and rectify that problem and several other mistakes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThere was no taxpayer money involved, and I take full responsibility,\u201d Hunter, R-Alpine, said by telephone from his trip. \u201cThat\u2019s it. I\u2019m going to pay everything back by tomorrow morning, with interest.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hunter said he and his wife were the only two holders of his campaign\u2019s credit card, which incurred most of the expenses. As of Thursday morning, he said, he is now the only card-holder.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hunter\u2019s call came amid a review by The San Diego Union-Tribune of an unusual pattern of expenditures listed on his disclosure forms as personal expenses or mistaken charges \u201cto be paid back.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Campaign finance reports show $5,339 in such charges during 2015 alone: $1,128 in travel, $1,650 to Hunter\u2019s children&#8217;s school in El Cajon, $1,424 for video games and $1,137 paid to an oral and facial surgeon.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The forms list only one personal expense that was actually paid back by Hunter \u2014 $169 on Oct. 21, with no indication of which personal expense was being reimbursed. None of the other outstanding charges were listed as repaid, or as an ongoing debt to the campaign for the year-end accounting.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Union-Tribune was the first to report this week that more than 60 video game transactions totaling $1,302 were being questioned by the Federal Election Commission. News outlets from Esquire to Roll Call picked up the story.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will note that dynastic politics has a long of enabling corrupt and unqualified, whether we are talking about the Hapsburgs, the any number of the Bush clan, Ron Paul&#8217;s idiot son, and <i>**ahem*<\/i>* another prominent Presidential candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duncan D. Hunter, the son of Duncan L. Hunter, has been caught spending campaign funds on personal expenses, a federal crime: Rep. Duncan Hunter \u2014 whose spending of campaign funds on video games made national news this week \u2014 said on Thursday that he\u2019s cutting short a trip to Israel to return to the United &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,970,1052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-corruption","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181697"}],"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=181697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}