UnionTrib: “Separated from his wife and awaiting sentencing, former congressman Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham has been pulling weeds and regaining his strength at his friend Dan McKinnon’s ranch in Lakeside. It isn’t the first time McKinnon, 72, has saved Cunningham from himself. In Cunningham’s 1984 book ‘Fox Two: The Story of America’s First Ace in Vietnam,’ he wrote that he met McKinnon in 1973 when his life had hit ‘rock-bottom.’ Cunningham didn’t give details. In disgrace, but not all alone McKinnon and a few of his friends encouraged Cunningham to turn his life over to God and stop the tailspin. ‘They always encouraged me to face things with the Lordship of Christ in mind,’ Cunningham wrote, ‘rather than selfish ambition.'”
In other news, Duke supporters ask judge to remember Duke’s legacy and mitigate sentence.
