Duncan Hunter Knows Pizza

The bidding process for contractors seeking to furnish the County with an elaborately outfitted truck to accommodate the sheriff’s bomb-defusing operations, first reported here last month, has been called off. “In the best interests of the County of San Diego, the Sheriff’s Department has decided to cancel the Bomb-Arson Command Vehicle,” says a notice posted on the County bid site February 7. According to specifications, the truck was to include an array of fancy high-tech gear, including a bevy of robots, video cameras, flat screen TVs, a digital video recorder, refrigerator, and an atomic clock…GOP congressman Duncan Hunter has a heavy-duty lunchtime fund-raising schedule coming up. According to the Sunlight Foundation’s Party Time website, since the beginning of the year Hunter has already held three fund-raisers at the Capitol Hill Club, each with a $1000 minimum for political action committees ($2000 to be “co-host”), with five more events scheduled through March 16. A February 17 lunch for the ex-Marine and defense-contractor champion is to be held at We, the Pizza, a Pennsylvania Avenue eatery whose website features a variation on a famous quote from the late acid-rock king Jimi Hendrix (“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know (pizza).”)