Congressman's campaign expenses under review, including children's school lunches

[joeybee12]

His office won’t confirm it, but unexplained expenses from Rep. Duncan Hunter’s (R-Sh*t for Brains) campaign account may have gone to buy lunches for his children at their private school in El Cajon.

Hunter campaign reports filed several weeks back listed $1,300 spent with Ki’s restaurant in Cardiff-by-the-Sea in 2015 and early 2016 — 21 separate transactions that seemed far afield from his East County base.

This week, in following up on an ongoing Federal Election Commission review of Hunter’s campaign accounts, U-T Watchdog came up with a possible explanation for the charges. Ki’s provides school lunch delivery to Christian Unified Schools, where Hunter’s three children attend. And on the schools’ website, visitors who click "lunch info and menu" are taken to a Ki’s fact sheet.

There’s no way to know whether the expenses are school lunches, because Hunter’s staff has declined to discuss specific expenses. The Ki’s charges by Hunter’s campaign were all during the school year, and none during the summer. The most recent ones reported were Feb. 26 and March 21 of this year, for $68.90 and $45.50.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hunter-school-lunch-20160616-snap-story.html

[Bucky]

1. To be fair, so much money comes into campaigns, it'd be a shame NOT to help out kids with some of it

I mean, it's not like his campaign donations don't represent his real salary anyway.

[shraby]

2. People who have given to campaigns, give to help a candidate get elected. Kids lunches at

school are not a campaign expense. As such, that is what I consider fraud. Using money that was given for a different reason in a manner that has nothing to do with why it was given.

[Ilsa]

3. It's to feed his kids at a private school, if I understand this correctly. nt

[Zorro]

4. Dirty Duncan is also Trump’s House Leadership Committee co-chair

and one of the first Republican congressholes to endorse Cheeto Jesus.

"We don't need a policy wonk as president. We need a leader as president" -- that was his statement earlier this year. Yeah, Trump's the type of leader that orders the likes of Hunter to charge out of the trenches in a suicidal frontal attack. Seems like Dirty Duncan may be having second thoughts now.