A Republican official being indicted on what amounts to $250,000 of campaign finance fraud is only like, the third biggest story of corruption in the Grand Old Party today. San Diego Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter gets to add “indicted on charges of wire fraud, falsifying records, campaign finance violations and conspiracy” to his resume. After an FBI investigation that’s lasted more than a year, the Department of Justice says that Hunter and his wife spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for travel, on bars and restaurants, to pay for dental work, and on an Italian vacation. Like a real stand-up conservative, Hunter has blamed his wife for inadvertently using the campaign credit card to blow a couple hundred thousand dollars. You know, like how you do.
"There was wrong campaign spending, but it was not done by me," Hunter told KGTV-10, a San Diego television station, earlier this year.
Besides being indicted for being a corrupt official, soon-to-be-disgraced Rep. Hunter is best known for being offended by paintings that depict racial injustice. Seriously. Now, you don’t get a real piece of work like Duncan Hunter unless the district you represent is blood red, but he does have a real opponent this election cycle, in Ammar Campa-Najjar. Whether or not Rep. Hunter bows out of the race, it is too late for any other names to be added to the ballot this November—and the Republican Party is a craven lot.
Here’s a Daily Kos diary from 2008 … about Duncan Hunter and his corrupt family. Some things change, and some just stay the same.