Duncan D. Hunter

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Duncan D. Hunter

Duncan Duane Hunter (* 7. December 1976 in San Diego , California ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Between 2009 and 2020, he represented most of California's San Diego County in the United States House of Representatives . He is charged with alleged embezzlement of campaign donations.

Family, education and work

Duncan Hunter is the son of longtime Congressman Duncan Lee Hunter . He attended Granite Hills High School in El Cajon and then studied business administration at San Diego State University until 2001 . He then started a web design company and worked in the IT industry as an analyst. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , he gave up this activity and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps . Between 2002 and 2005 he was an active soldier in this unit in both the Iraq war and Afghanistan . To this day he is a member of the Marine Corps Reserve. After 2005 he worked temporarily in the real estate industry.

Hunter is married and has three children. He has his private residence in Lakeside .

Political career

In the 2008 election , Hunter was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 52nd  Congressional District of California , where he succeeded his father on January 3, 2009. He ran in the Republican primary for the 2008 presidential election and, after a disappointing result at the caucus in Nevada in January 2008, decided not to run again for Congress. Duncan D. Hunter was re-elected five times. After the electoral districts have been redesigned in 2012, Hunter represented the 50th electoral district of California since January 3, 2013, which largely corresponds to his former district and in San Diego County includes the city of El Cajon , among other things . Hunter sat in the Armed Services Committee , the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He was on several sub-committees.

The House of Representatives Ethics Committee asked Duncan Hunter to stop voting on December 5th. The reason was the criminal proceedings against him. On December 6, 2019, Hunter announced that he would be stepping down shortly after the Christmas holidays. He officially resigned from his congress mandate on January 13, 2020. His seat for the 50th  Congressional constituency of California will remain vacant until the establishment of the 117th United States Congress on January 3, 2021.

Embezzlement charges

On August 21, 2018, a grand jury charged Hunter and his wife with misappropriating approximately $ 250,000 in campaign donations for personal purposes such as vacation travel and covering up the use by alleging alleged charitable causes. Hunter ran for re- election in the November 2018 election. The Democratic Party had set up Ammar Campa-Najjar as the opposing candidate . The Cook Political Report changed its forecast from solid to lean for Hunter (surely too lean ). The spokesman Paul Ryan called the allegations very serious and announced that Hunter would be removed from his committees. Hunter anticipated this by withdrawing temporarily. Hunter and his wife declared their innocence in court; Hunter claimed that his wife managed all of the finances so he had no knowledge of it. Hunter won the 2018 election by four percent of the vote and is also a member of the 116th Congress.

In June 2019, Hunter's wife admitted partial guilt and stated that she was working with the prosecution, making Hunter's conviction more likely. His trial was due to begin in September 2019 and was postponed to January 2020, a few weeks before the Republican primary for Hunter's 2020 mandate . At this, the former representative of the neighboring 49th congressional electoral district of California, Darrell Issa , is expected to take on Duncan. Campa-Najjar is running again on the Democratic side.

On December 2, 2019, Hunter announced that he too would plead guilty the following day. His sentencing is scheduled for March 17, 2020.

Positions

Hunter was considered a decidedly conservative MP, is close to the Tea Party movement and was a member of the Republican Study Committee . In 2010 he spoke out against the Obamacare health care reform . He advocated the expulsion of people who immigrated illegally as children (see Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ) and opposed the legal harmonization of same-sex partnerships . He attracted attention by making controversial statements; For example, his claim that ten Islamic State fighters crossed the border from Mexico into the United States in 2014 has no factual basis.

In late February 2016, Hunter was the second congressman, after Chris Collins , to support Donald Trump in the Republican primary campaign for the 2016 presidential election .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duncan Hunter. In: Encyclopaedia Britannica , August 13, 2007 (English, updated several times).
  2. ↑ READ: Ethics Committee letter to Duncan Hunter, urging him not to vote in House , CNN, December 5, 2019.
  3. ^ Rep. Duncan Hunter says he will resign after the holidays following guilty plea NBC dated December 6, 2019.
  4. ^ A b Charles T. Clark: Rep. Duncan Hunter officially vacates office representing 50th Congressional District. In: Los Angeles Times . January 14, 2020, accessed January 16, 2020 .
  5. ^ GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter and wife indicted on charges of misusing campaign funds. In: Politico , August 21, 2018; Chris Cilliza: The 30 most astounding moments in Rep. Duncan Hunter's 47-page indictment. In: CNN.com , August 23, 2018.
  6. ^ David Wasserman: CA-50: Hunter Indictment Moves Race from Solid to Lean Republican. In: Cook Political Report , 21. August 2018.
  7. ^ Lindsey McPherson: Paul Ryan Strips Duncan Hunter of Committee Assignments. In: Roll Call , August 21, 2018.
  8. ^ Bridget Bowman: Hunter Indictment Shakes Up Race in GOP District. In: Roll Call , August 21, 2018.
  9. ↑ Kate Sullivan: Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter: My wife handled my finances. In: CNN.com , August 24, 2018.
  10. ↑ Julie Watson: Indicted congressman's wife pleads guilty to corruption. In: Associated Press , June 13, 2019; Chris Marquette: Rep. Duncan Hunter's trial pushed to 2020. In: Roll Call , August 14, 2019; Jeremy B. White: Issa weighs return to the house through Duncan Hunter. In: Politico , August 29, 2019.
  11. ↑ Paul Vercammen / Paul LeBlanc, Rep. Duncan Hunter to plead guilty in case alleging misuse of campaign funds , CNN of December 2, 2019.
  12. ↑ Pants on Fire: Duncan Hunter makes unconfirmed claim Border Patrol caught at least 10 ISIS fighters. In: Politifact , October 10, 2014.
  13. ↑ Nick Gass: Trump lands his first congressional endorsements. In: Politico , February 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Duncan D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunter, Duncan Duane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego , California