Reply #1: the key detail here is the minority status of the businessman in question.

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why would Alphonso say that he was a minority businessman? why add such a specific detail to a fabricated story? look here:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/14564792.htm

Jackson told a Dallas business group April 28 about a minority contractor who finally had landed an advertising contract with HUD after trying for 10 years, according to an article in the Dallas Business Journal.

this story has legs. i believe that Alphonso DID in fact refuse a contract to a minority businessman solely on the basis of political beliefs, and i believe that this is the tip of the iceberg as far as bushco policy on this type of discrimination. bushco is really going to have to scramble to contain this one.