Rep. Hunter bans Indivisible members from his office, hundreds join protest outside
Source: East County Magazine
Some 300 demonstrators staged a boisterous rally late Thursday afternoon near the El Cajon district office of 50th District U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon) on Magnolia and Bradley Avenue. Hunter’s office issued a release earlier stating that his staff would no longer meet with constituents from the group, then shut down the office today in response to the protest rally.
The protestors held up placards representing a mixed array of concerns over his stances on key issues, drawing attention during rush hour traffic, including demonstrators on an overpass visible to motorists on State Route 67. Their concerns include repeal of the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s immigration policies, defunding Planned Parenthood, Trump’s election, and an ongoing investigation of Hunter’s alleged improper use of campaign funds.
Protest rallies have also been staged at Hunter’s Temecula office. Organized by Indivisible San Diego and Indivisible North San Diego County, the groups also expressed outrage that Rep. Hunter has not held any town hall meetings of late.
...Rally organizers voiced outrage earlier in the day on Facebook, in a post which read, “Update- we received an email from Hunter's office that we are no longer allowed to come to his office or we will be trespassing! We pay for that office! We pay for those employees! We will not be silenced! He is trying to slander his own constituents for asking him to do his job. We will not back down. Join us tonight to show him and his supporters that we are a peaceful but powerful movement and we will not be silenced! We are perfectly within our constitutional rights to be on public sidewalks, that is where we will be. We will also have Sheriff Sergeant Rinder and his officers on site to help keep the peace..."
Read more: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/hunter-bans-%E2%80%9Cindivisible%E2%80%9D-members-his-office-hundreds-join-protest-outside
Hunter has his office on private property so his constituents can't even go visit his staff, let alone see their Congressman who has repeatedly dodged their visits and refuses to hold town halls with his constituents.
Note: His staff lied to the LA Times and claimed he's held town halls in the past. He hasn't. When I pinned his staff down on this for an earlier article, they admitted he's only spoken to groups that invited him, such as Tea Party or Chamber of Commerce meetings, and at a jobs fair he hosted a while back. He has held telephone town halls that are a joke, since we hear that progressive callers or anyone who disagrees with him gets screened out and is not allowed to ask questions.
Hunter isn't getting a pass from media anymore; the biggest paper in town, the San Diego Union-Tribune, recently sold and the new owners have been going after him on his shady campaign finances (charging up family vacations, costly jewelry and even airfare for his kid's pet rabbit, all billed to his campaign).
There were news crews from several TV news stations at tonight's protest, including one TV van that a tipster told us got towed. (If Hunter's office towed a TV van parked at his lot, he may live to regret that. Media has long memories about such things.)
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by riding on daddy's coattails. When he first ran they kept the "Jr." off the signs so that the East County rednecks couldn't tell that it was now the son, not the father.
