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Who didn't see this coming?
Republicans new Obamacare attack line hinges on allegations that the contractor in charge of building the disastrous healthcare.gov website landed the gig through sweetheart deals from the Obama administration.
But according to Federal Election Commission records, that companys PAC gave more to House Republicans than House Democrats during the 2012 cycle including a $2,000 check for the GOPs chief scandal investigator, Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa. Whats more, executives of CGI Federal personally gave more than twice as much to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney than to President Obama. The contractor has also feasted on more than $2.4 billion worth of IT work dating back to the early Bush Administration.
So far, none of that has stopped the Republican National Congressional Committee from suggesting CGI netted hundreds of millions of dollars to create the dysfunctional website because of its ties to the White House
On Wednesday, the NRCC blasted the Republican National Committees email list heralding a petition it had started that would urge Congress to investigate CGI-Obama ties. The email noted the importance of finding out, among other pressing questions, How did [CGI] get contracted to do it?
more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/stevefriess/company-behind-troubled-obamacare-website-donated-heavily-to
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Why would the company that was bidding (or already awarded...that's what I want to know now...How long ago was this contract awarded)for the job of creating the "Obamacares Website" donating more to Romney. That just doesn't even make sense....Did they already have the contract awarded at the time they made those donations?
wouldn't this point to Conflict of Interest?
johnd83
(593 posts)because they assumed the GOP would cancel the project but not the payment. Class act on their part...