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Zorro

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Thu Feb 9, 2017, 11:40 PM Feb 2017

Hunter spends campaign cash at cigar bar, poses with Cubans

Rep. Duncan Hunter’s campaign continued in the last quarter of 2016 to spend money on “food/beverages” at a cigar lounge in his district, where he was photographed apparently smoking a Cuban cigar on election night.

Hunter’s financial disclosure report, filed last week with the Federal Election Commission, shows his campaign spent $404 at Alpine Tobacco Company Cigar and Wine Bar in Alpine in November. The spending is in addition to the $3,018 Hunter’s campaign has reported spending on “food/beverages” at that smoking lounge and two others since April 2015.

Hunter’s campaign spending has come under scrutiny by the Office of Congressional Ethics since the FEC and The San Diego Union-Tribune first raised questions last April. He has reimbursed his campaign for more than $60,000 his office identified as personal, mistaken or insufficiently documented. None of the tobacco expenses have been reimbursed.

Hunter’s office has declined to say the campaign purpose of the spending at the tobacco lounge.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/sd-me-hunter-smoking-20170208-story.html

This lout needs to go.

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