More Duncan Hunter/Brian Bilbray corruption (San Diego gets screwed in McMillan deal!)

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Duncan Hunter was lobbying for his big time "local lobbyist" Corky McMillin and his real estate company which his brother is the VP of this company and also got a sweetheart house from this deal from their so called "random lottery" too. Both Hunter and Bilbray heavily lobbied the City to do business with McMillan.

Check here for more details on this mess. Perhaps this is yet ANOTHER reason why Carol Lam got pushed out. I wouldn't be surprised that she would have added this to the list of things Hunter would have been charged with had she been still around to make an indictment against him!

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070303-9999-lz1n3mcmillin.html

WATCHDOG REPORT | WHO PROFITS FROM LIBERTY STATION
Boom for McMillin, bust for city

By Brooke Williams, Agustin Armendariz and Maureen Magee
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS


OHN GASTALDO / Union-Tribune
A public-private project at the old Navy boot camp produced a new San Diego community. The housing is finished.

March 3, 2007

Nearly seven years ago, San Diego turned over 235 acres in Point Loma to The Corky McMillin Cos. in exchange for a split of profits and the commitment to transform an old Navy boot camp into a new community.

Homes, shops, schools, a 46-acre park and the start of an arts district have sprouted at the former Naval Training Center, but the city doesn't expect to see a dime from a 50-50 split the late Corky McMillin promised.

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Corky McMillin emphasized his personal relationships.

“I have made a career out of being very well-connected with the local representatives in Washington, D.C.,” he told council members. “It's going to be relatively simple to get that through the process.”

McMillin didn't mention that his company's vice president of acquisitions was James Hunter, whose brother, local Rep. Duncan Hunter, had co-authored a letter to council members several weeks earlier, urging them to keep McMillin Cos. in the running for the NTC project. Hunter and two other congressmen sent the letter on the same day the city was poised to begin exclusive negotiations with Lennar.

Duncan Hunter, who was chairman of the military procurement subcommittee, helped to draft the bill that carried the no-cost provision for military land. The legislation was controversial because the Defense Department stood to make billions of dollars selling surplus land. It opened a window of time during which San Diego and 20 other municipalities got land for free from the Navy.

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1. The solution to this corruption is pretty simple

Quit prosecuting it. Remove the prosecuting attorney, and voila! No more corruption, no more crime, because nobody is prosecuting it.

And it's not political, so stop saying that. I think the reason Bob Boudelang doesn't post here anymore is that he's too busy with his new job with the Bush administration. I swear, so much of what I'm hearing right now (being reported with straight faces by millionaire talking heads) sounds like it could have come straight out of one of Bob's columns.