Alexander J. Madison - Sept 10, 2007

The nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters issued Hunter the lowest possible environmental score for 2006; his lifetime rating from the LCV is 9%. The group singled him out for criticism when in 2003 he and Senator John Warner “succeeded in removing the Senate’s bipartisan language and adding broad military exemptions from both the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. – Wikipedia, 2007.

In a phone interview with the North County Times regarding the military environmental exemptions, Hunter told them: “We went at this with the viewpoint that the most important endangered creature is the 19-year-old Marine rifleman.” - NC Times, November, 2003

Voted against the Omnibus spending bill in 1990, HR 5835, that included George Herbert Walker Bush’s tax increases after his “read my lips” broken promise. - Congressional Record

He called for the use of the National Guard in 1986 to help secure the southern border and used the Seabees and Army Corps of engineers to improve the Border Patrol fences and roads in the early 1990s, prior to getting the ‘Hunter Fence’ built. – Congressional Record.

Hunter proposed an amendment to the 1994 defense authorization bill that would have reinstated the practice of questioning recruits about their sexuality, ditching the Clinton Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. – Washington Post, Sept 1993.

Hunter still opposes gays in the Military today. Writing in the USA Today earlier this year: “It is not fair, nor conducive to unit cohesion, for young Americans whose moral principles reject homosexual conduct to force them to live and operate in close quarters with those who exercise such conduct, just to satisfy liberals in the U.S. political system. Finally, America possesses the best fighting force in the world, and any proposed changes impacting the operability of our military, regardless of their social significance to liberals, must be blocked outright by Congress.” - USA Today, March 2007.

In an article Hunter wrote in a July 1994 opposing the formation of the World Trade Organization, he laid out four reasons it was a very, very bad idea for US sovereignty. Hunter argued:

• “The first of these ``Big 4’’ provisions is in Article IX. It states that decisions by the World Trade Organization ``shall be taken by a majority ... each member of WTO shall have one vote.’’ Folks, this gives Fidel Castro in Cuba the same vote as the United States. It is just like the General Assembly of the United Nations, with one vital difference. There is no Security Council in the WTO to give the U.S. a veto as in the UN.