Disgraced Ex-Rep. Hunter Dipped Into Campaign Funds For Bar Tab After Resigning

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) walks down the House steps after final votes of the week in the Capitol on February 15, 2018. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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The disgraced (now-former) Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) apparently couldn’t help himself.

The “Duncan D. Hunter for Congress” committee filed a document to the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday that revealed Hunter had used campaign money to pick up a $137.20 bill at Hawk ‘n’ Dove, a bar in D.C., on January 9.

That was a mere two days after he submitted his letter of resignation and a little over a month after he had pleaded guilty to campaign fund misuse.

Hunter was handed an 11-month prison sentence in March. His abuse of donor money included flights for his pet rabbit, fine dining, and luxury vacations with five women with whom he was having extramarital affairs.

Politico editor Steven Shepard was the first to flag the payment.

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  1. So, um, how did his prison commissary account get funded?

  2. It’s a habit he has a hard time stopping…
    It’s his wife’s fault…
    It’s his privilege…

    Meanwhile…another deplorable arrested for DUI in KY!

    https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article242059721.html

    Really…Mark Meadows is

    overwhelmed at times by a permanent culture at the White House that revolves around the president’s moods.”

    What is wrong with these Greed-Over-People Party people aside from the obvious?

    Here’s the BIGLIEST Deplorable showing off his IGNORANCE…
    Chinatown is NOT China, you Moron!

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1250852583318736896

    https://twitter.com/ChrisLu44/status/1250875306967273475

  3. :beers::tropical_drink:|||

    from the pickup bars to the jail bars

  4. I think we’re gonna need a bigger basket.

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