Duncan's pet rabbit airline ticket is some Marie Antoinette shit

[kpete]

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[Autumn]

1. How the fuck do you spend 33 hundred dollars at a burger joint?

[shanti]

4. Over a period of time?

[Autumn]

5. That's a shitload of burgers.

[Initech]

8. When I ate at In-N-Out the other day my bill was $8.90.

$3300 is fucking insane!

[Autumn]

10. I know right!

Crazy.

[ok_cpu]

27. Maybe he bought Pruitt's wife a franchise.

[Initech]

48. Oh snap!

[sheshe2]

12. He took Trump to lunch.

[Initech]

16. No way Trump would ever eat at In N Out when there's a perfectly good McDonald's across the street!

"Nothing is better than the Big Mac, ok! I only eat the best burgers! Double Doubles are for losers!"

[NCjack]

2. OK with me. I would rather that Duncan (R) spend his campaign money

this way than actually spending against a DEM.

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

3. Did He Do All 30 Shots On His Own In One Sitting? nt

[Initech]

49. I have many questions about this as well!

And I like that only *ONE* gourmet steak was purchased on the same tab! What did he do? Buy shots for the whole bar? Or did he down all 30 on his own?

[Initech]

6. 30 tequila shots? Damn!!!!

[underpants]

28. What the hell is a "Gourmet Steak"?

I mean, it's a steak -right?

Kobe beef?


But then $462for a night in a steak house is one thing but, as you all noted above, $3K at a fast food place is out of this world.

[spooky3]

34. It's served with organic ketchup.

[underpants]

35. LOL

right back at ya!

[jberryhill]

7. The rabbit ticket was legit

The rabbit is campaign staff.

[JDC]

23. Serious lol

[underpants]

29. Maybe it was an emotional support bunny

[spooky3]

32. Lol!!!

[ProudLib72]

9. Pet fucking rabbit??!!!

Maybe it was Mr. Fuzzy who ate $3,300 worth of lettuce from the burger joint?

[jberryhill]

24. Campaign bunny coordinator

[ProudLib72]

25. Like Karen McDougal?

Damnit, I wish these OPs would state which kind of "bunny" they are referring to.

[jberryhill]

36. Oryctolagus cuniculus

[ProudLib72]

38. Karen McDougal's brighter cousin?

A lot of airlines do not permit rabbits on board. United does, so I looked up the restrictions and costs associated with flying rabbits.

United allows domesticated cats, dogs, rabbits and household birds (excluding cockatoos) to travel accompanied in the aircraft cabin on most flights within the U.S. An in-cabin pet may be carried in addition to a carry-on bag and is subject to a $125 service charge each way. There is an additional $125 service charge for each stopover of more than four hours within the U.S. or more than 24 hours outside of the U.S.

https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/travel/animals/in-cabin.html

So $250 for a round trip flight. I don't believe it was "seat" as the documentation shows. I think it was a service charge.

[jberryhill]

44. The rabbit has to go under a seat

If they didn’t want to sacrifice legroom, then they would buy another ticket just to have the empty seat to put the rabbit in front of.

[Initech]

45. Well now to be fair, Mr. Fuzzy was enrolled in Southwest's Rabbit Rewards Program.

Hey o!!!!

[ProudLib72]

46. Actually, it was Frontier Airlines

Can you spot Mr Fuzzy?

[C_U_L8R]

11. That's not deep state at all.

right there is what we call deep shit. You're in it, pal.

[Saboburns]

13. Say there Dunc

Did you get the shorts?

We're they awesome?

[Achilleaze]

17. Yup, he got KGOP-republican-style "hawaii shorts"

[Saboburns]

19. Love this!

Gracias.

[Achilleaze]

14. "Fuck the Navy." - Republican Duncan

republicans never miss an opportunity to piss on our military, our veterans, our POWs, or our Gold Star Familes. republicans can shove their unpatriotic disdain up the butt of their ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, and stop demeaning our men and women in uniform.

[Tanuki]

15. Are we sure that's not his euphemism for a Playboy bunny? He's a repug, after all....

And he did disguise his purchase of golf balls as a contribution to a veterans' charity...

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. I knew we'd seen the rabbit somewhere before

There was a new reply just now to my old thread about it, but it had been archived after droppign out of the 30 most recent GD pages, so it doesn't reappear: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028429558

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Duncan Hunter spent campaign funds for rabbit air travel, says 'victimized' by Ethics Office

Rep. Duncan Hunter used campaign funds to pay for $600 of airline fees to fly a family rabbit, one of the more colorful expenses to surface in an ongoing review of his practices.

Hunter’s staff told the Press-Enterprise newspaper that the House Office of Congressional Ethics questioned the pet expenses — offered as an example of over-reach by the agency.
...
Hunter, R-Alpine, has reimbursed his campaign about $62,000 in campaign expenses that were personal in nature or lacked proper documentation, including oral surgery, a garage door, video games, resort stays and a jewelry purchase in Italy.
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“This was nothing more than an oversight. In fact, it’s such an obvious example of a mistake being made but (the office) wants to view it through a lens of possible intent. The same goes for many other expenditures,” Kasper said. “Many of Rep. Hunter’s repayments had to do with mistakes under specific circumstances, and in other cases there were bona fide campaign activities connected to expenditures that (the office) was not aware of and didn’t account for.”

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/sd-me-hunter-rabbits-20170103-story.html

$62,000 of mistakes? Yeah, sure. It's the Republican Way - try to rip people off, and if you get found out, use "I am so incompetent that I cannot make expenses claims without inserting completely inappropriate personal expenditure".

Via Talking Points Memo. Who note that Hunter, of course, voted to abolish the independence of the ethics office.

[lunasun]

40. Oral surgery and jewelry even harder to explain imo !

[Raine]

20. Pence has a pet bunny too

I wonder what it is about rethugs and pet rabbits. It's not that I'm complaining about it, I'm just glad they like bunnies and aren't out shooting them like Cheeto's spawns.

[dalton99a]

21. Kick

[yortsed snacilbuper]

22. They sell nice caskets at costco, I wonder if he bought one?

[underpants]

31. He just went there to get tube socks

but those free samples.... they'll get you with those...next thing you know you've got a receipt longer than a paragraph in a Trump speech and you are fighting with someone at the free box bin so you can get all those frozen Alaskan Salmon Burgers home.

[dawnie51]

26. These two assholes....

were livin the life.....eating out two and three meals a day, buying anything and everything their hearts desired, vacationing world wide three and four times a year, flying off here, flying relatives off there. The compilation of their spending is just nauseating. And they didn't pay their house payments, they didn't pay utilities, they mooched money from parents, all in all just horrible people. I can't wait to see them go down hard.

[underpants]

33. Yeah I read that they were simply living above their means

so they started dipping into the campaign fund.

[GWC58]

42. We drive to Daytona Beach from Maryland

every July. Why drive that distance? Because we can’t afford to fly. Apparently these two grifters couldn’t afford it either. But did that stop their outrageous behavior? Nope! Maybe, just maybe, they thought 45’s DOJ would “have their backs?” Seems to me they did this without a care in the world. 🤪🤡

[eleny]

30. One resignation coming up

Like Collins, he'll wait a few days and resign. Maybe tomorrow night or over the weekend like Collins who waited until the Saturday.

[dawnie51]

37. This ass is a veteran....

and a lot of their lies about the funds were that this and that was something for a veteran's charity, or a contribution for a veterans event. That's the worst.. Horrible guy.

[GWC58]

43. A truly horrible COUPLE!!

His wife, can’t forget her, is equally horrible. 😡😠

[Vinnie From Indy]

39. What sucked for the airlines was....

the rabbit's name is "bitey".

[lunasun]

41. Who knows what kind of pet rabbit got an airline ticket or two from his funds

[Gothmog]

47. From my twitter feed

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[Hortensis]

51. If he"can't follow the law, how can we expect him to enforce the law?"

Yup. And these are the last people we want WRITING our laws. They've made so much corruption legal or at least get-aroundable for themselves that his colleagues must be shaking their heads over his simple-minded stupidity.

[ck4829]

50. Wow...