HUD Secretary: No HUD Contracts if you criticize Bush

[DesEtoiles]

HUD secretary's blunt warning
Alphonso Jackson says deal was scuttled after contractor admits not liking Bush
Dallas Business Journal - May 5, 2006
by Christine Perez
Staff Writer
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After discussing the huge strides the agency has made in doing business with minority-owned companies, Jackson closed with a cautionary tale, relaying a conversation he had with a prospective advertising contractor.

"He had made every effort to get a contract with HUD for 10 years," Jackson said of the prospective contractor. "He made a heck of a proposal and was on the (General Services Administration) list, so we selected him. He came to see me and thank me for selecting him. Then he said something ... he said, 'I have a problem with your president.'

"I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I don't like President Bush.' I thought to myself, 'Brother, you have a disconnect -- the president is elected, I was selected. You wouldn't be getting the contract unless I was sitting here. If you have a problem with the president, don't tell the secretary.'

"He didn't get the contract," Jackson continued. "Why should I reward someone who doesn't like the president, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the president? Logic says they don't get the contract. That's the way I believe."

http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2006/05/08/story1.html?hbx=e_abd

[MADem]

1. Wow, what a dumb, incompetent bastard!!!!!

I smell a lawsuit coming:

Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University, said canceling a government contract due to political views "is not a door you want to open."

"Whether or not it's legal, it certainly draws your judgment and the judgment of your office into question," Jillson said. "It's just not the tone you want to set."

Dustee Tucker, a spokeswoman for Jackson's office, said the value of the advertising contract, which was to be placed with a minority publication, could not be provided.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. That makes Jackson different from others in the junta how?

Just wondering.

[MADem]

16. Well, that's a new low in abject stupidity n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

2. and Jackson tells the story proudly! No fear of condemnation by Dimson!

Just goes to show everyone what the "ambience" is around there. Not only can he get away with doing that, but he can brag about it, publicly!

[DesEtoiles]

3. I'm sure he'd feel the same was if Prez a Dem! NOT

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Even if he felt it, he sure would not feel free to brag about it publicly.

These guys know that it is accepted policy.

[shrdlu]

5. bump...this should go high

[spindrifter]

6. Competence doesn't win with these losers.

Just the type of anecdote we all know is true, not just at HUD. They must sit down and rule out all the people who can actually get the job done as "too threatening" to their own lack of ability.

[Supersedeas]

10. Cronyism gets ya some bonus points, I suppose

[onenote]

7. kick

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Isn't living in a fascist country fun?

[DesEtoiles]

9. He has his pictures up all over the HUD offices. Weird.

[progressoid]

11. "Logic says"....Oh, that's rich.

[grannylib]

13. I love your sig line! Good one!

[robbedvoter]

12. Government officially an arm of the GOP/BFEE

Why bother to pretend this is a democracy?
"Why give them money to campaign agaimst us"?

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. We knew this was happening. WE KNEW IT!

In our gut, we knew that good ole boy politics had taken over. Now we have proof and everyone who thinks they were aggrieved should be able to get jutice.