Rep. Duncan Hunter has filed paperwork to get on the New Hampshire primary ballot.
The California congressman, a Republican, filed his petition and delivered the $1,000 check required to get onto the ballot Wednesday. He joins 15 other candidates who have so far filed for the Republican nomination in the Granite State.
Hunter was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980, and has made the U.S.-Mexico border a key issue in his campaign.
The Vietnam veteran serves on the Armed Services Committee, and is a strong supporter of a large military. His son, also Duncan Hunter, has served several tours in Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine.
In an Eagle-Tribune telephone interview several weeks ago, Hunter said he believed America has a moral and strategic responsibility to stay in the Iraq War until the Iraqi Army and police can protect the country.
“I have a picture on my desk, a photograph on my desk, of hundreds of Kurdish mothers lying on the hillside in northern Iraq holding their babies, who (were) killed (by former dictator Saddam Hussein),” Hunter said. “Hope for a decent future in Iraq lies with the free government that the United States has established.”
