Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

Four-star Omni stay for Duncan Hunter aide

General Atomics gets $92 million contract for border work

Reed Linsk and his spouse junketed for free to the lobbyist-backed, four-star Omni Homestead tucked away in the Allegheny Mountains
Reed Linsk and his spouse junketed for free to the lobbyist-backed, four-star Omni Homestead tucked away in the Allegheny Mountains

Ethical vacation

As his boss twisted slowly in the winds of federal jurisprudence, a top employee of indicted Republican House member Duncan Hunter took off with his wife for a round of ethics training at a posh resort hotel in Hot Springs, Virginia. For two weekdays ending Friday, June 7, Hunter deputy chief of staff Reed Linsk and his spouse Abbey junketed for free to the lobbyist-backed, GOP-friendly Congressional Institute’s Legislative and Communications Directors Retreat at the four-star Omni Homestead tucked away in the Allegheny Mountains.

Duncan Hunter — twisting slowly in the winds of federal jurisprudence.

“A vacation at The Omni Homestead is distinguished by historic ambiance, rich traditions, and a seemingly endless array of indoor and outdoor activities including two championship golf courses, tennis, shooting club, horseback riding, hiking, fly fishing, archery, falconry, mountain biking, and carriage rides,” says Virginia’s website for tourists. When not partaking of the inn’s amenities, the itinerary shows that participants attended educational sessions including An Ethics Primer, Preventing Ethics Violations, as well as The Sausage Factory, the Legislative Process. “I attended all meetings included on the attached agenda, including policy and legislative briefings, “Linsk declared on his June 21 disclosure filing.

Sponsored
Sponsored
Oceanside city councilman Christopher Rodriguez must sit out votes regarding the city’s short-term rental limits.

Maximum conflict

Oceanside city councilman Christopher Rodriquez has a conflict of interest and will have to sit out any votes regarding the city’s proposed short-term rental limits, says a June 7 letter to city attorney John Mullen from the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission. As the chief executive officer of Maximum Mortgage and Real Estate, Inc. Rodriquez “currently manages three Oceanside single-family homes registered with the City as short-term vacation rental properties.” The company “is paid twenty percent of gross revenues for its property management services and generates approximately $2,200 a month for its management of these three short-term vacation rentals,” notes the opinion. “Under the terms of the draft ordinance as recommended by the Planning Commission, no new short-term rentals will be allowed in single-family zones unless the owner resides in the unit while it is rented as a short-term rental. A prudent person would likely find that these changes will impact the value of Maximum because the ordinance would decrease the amount of competition in the field in which it is engaged, and decrease the need for the services that Maximum supplies, by limiting new short-term rentals in single-family zones.”

$308 million tab

A bevy of San Diego vendors, big and small, are profiting handsomely from federal contracts associated with the controversial job of policing the border with Mexico, and the biggest beneficiaries are some of the county’s most prolific political givers. Topping the list of local operations awarded lucrative contracts by U.S. Customs and Border Protection is Leidos, Inc, once known as Science Applications International, with $154 million, almost half of the $308 million in CBP spending here since September 2014. The super-sized military contractor has been contracted to furnish the government with “irradiation apparatus manufacturing” and maintenance. The company’s Vista factory makes Non-Intrusive Inspection gamma imaging devices and X-ray equipment, per its website.

Linden Blue

Second on the list of locals is Linden and J. Neal Blue’s General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., provider of border surveillance drones, with a haul of $92.1 million, about 30 percent of the total. In third place is Millennium Computer Products of San Marcos, whose website says it is an Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business, with $30.6 million, nearly ten percent. The San Diego data is part of a national compilation of border contracts posted online by the news site Sludge.

Making big government money on the border goes hand in hand with federal campaign giving, judging by the $955,950 spent during the 2016 election cycle by the Leidos, Inc. Political Action Committee, according to OpenSecrets.org. General Atomics PAC was not far behind, with $938,070.

Besides its work at the border, Leidos built the Sea Hunter, a San Diego-based robotic warship prototype. Last fall the trimaran drone made it all the way to Hawaii and back, though on the way to Pearl Harbor the ship had to be boarded three times by repair crews to keep it running.

The latest copy of the Reader

Please enjoy this clickable Reader flipbook. Linked text and ads are flash-highlighted in blue for your convenience. To enhance your viewing, please open full screen mode by clicking the icon on the far right of the black flipbook toolbar.

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

The danger of San Diego's hoarders

The $1 million Flash Comics #1
Next Article

At 4pm, this Farmer's Table restaurant in Chula Vista becomes Acqua e Farina

Brunch restaurant by day, Roman style trattoria by night
Reed Linsk and his spouse junketed for free to the lobbyist-backed, four-star Omni Homestead tucked away in the Allegheny Mountains
Reed Linsk and his spouse junketed for free to the lobbyist-backed, four-star Omni Homestead tucked away in the Allegheny Mountains

Ethical vacation

As his boss twisted slowly in the winds of federal jurisprudence, a top employee of indicted Republican House member Duncan Hunter took off with his wife for a round of ethics training at a posh resort hotel in Hot Springs, Virginia. For two weekdays ending Friday, June 7, Hunter deputy chief of staff Reed Linsk and his spouse Abbey junketed for free to the lobbyist-backed, GOP-friendly Congressional Institute’s Legislative and Communications Directors Retreat at the four-star Omni Homestead tucked away in the Allegheny Mountains.

Duncan Hunter — twisting slowly in the winds of federal jurisprudence.

“A vacation at The Omni Homestead is distinguished by historic ambiance, rich traditions, and a seemingly endless array of indoor and outdoor activities including two championship golf courses, tennis, shooting club, horseback riding, hiking, fly fishing, archery, falconry, mountain biking, and carriage rides,” says Virginia’s website for tourists. When not partaking of the inn’s amenities, the itinerary shows that participants attended educational sessions including An Ethics Primer, Preventing Ethics Violations, as well as The Sausage Factory, the Legislative Process. “I attended all meetings included on the attached agenda, including policy and legislative briefings, “Linsk declared on his June 21 disclosure filing.

Sponsored
Sponsored
Oceanside city councilman Christopher Rodriguez must sit out votes regarding the city’s short-term rental limits.

Maximum conflict

Oceanside city councilman Christopher Rodriquez has a conflict of interest and will have to sit out any votes regarding the city’s proposed short-term rental limits, says a June 7 letter to city attorney John Mullen from the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission. As the chief executive officer of Maximum Mortgage and Real Estate, Inc. Rodriquez “currently manages three Oceanside single-family homes registered with the City as short-term vacation rental properties.” The company “is paid twenty percent of gross revenues for its property management services and generates approximately $2,200 a month for its management of these three short-term vacation rentals,” notes the opinion. “Under the terms of the draft ordinance as recommended by the Planning Commission, no new short-term rentals will be allowed in single-family zones unless the owner resides in the unit while it is rented as a short-term rental. A prudent person would likely find that these changes will impact the value of Maximum because the ordinance would decrease the amount of competition in the field in which it is engaged, and decrease the need for the services that Maximum supplies, by limiting new short-term rentals in single-family zones.”

$308 million tab

A bevy of San Diego vendors, big and small, are profiting handsomely from federal contracts associated with the controversial job of policing the border with Mexico, and the biggest beneficiaries are some of the county’s most prolific political givers. Topping the list of local operations awarded lucrative contracts by U.S. Customs and Border Protection is Leidos, Inc, once known as Science Applications International, with $154 million, almost half of the $308 million in CBP spending here since September 2014. The super-sized military contractor has been contracted to furnish the government with “irradiation apparatus manufacturing” and maintenance. The company’s Vista factory makes Non-Intrusive Inspection gamma imaging devices and X-ray equipment, per its website.

Linden Blue

Second on the list of locals is Linden and J. Neal Blue’s General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., provider of border surveillance drones, with a haul of $92.1 million, about 30 percent of the total. In third place is Millennium Computer Products of San Marcos, whose website says it is an Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business, with $30.6 million, nearly ten percent. The San Diego data is part of a national compilation of border contracts posted online by the news site Sludge.

Making big government money on the border goes hand in hand with federal campaign giving, judging by the $955,950 spent during the 2016 election cycle by the Leidos, Inc. Political Action Committee, according to OpenSecrets.org. General Atomics PAC was not far behind, with $938,070.

Besides its work at the border, Leidos built the Sea Hunter, a San Diego-based robotic warship prototype. Last fall the trimaran drone made it all the way to Hawaii and back, though on the way to Pearl Harbor the ship had to be boarded three times by repair crews to keep it running.

Comments
Sponsored

The latest copy of the Reader

Please enjoy this clickable Reader flipbook. Linked text and ads are flash-highlighted in blue for your convenience. To enhance your viewing, please open full screen mode by clicking the icon on the far right of the black flipbook toolbar.

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Big swordfish, big marlin, and big money

Trout opener at Santee Lakes
Next Article

The danger of San Diego's hoarders

The $1 million Flash Comics #1
Comments
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

This Week’s Reader This Week’s Reader