HUD: Don't like Bush, don't get contract

[kpete]

HUD secretary's blunt warning
Alphonso Jackson says deal was scuttled after contractor admits not liking Bush
Dallas Business Journal - May 5, 2006by Christine PerezStaff Writer

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That's the message U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson seemed to send during an April 28 talk in Dallas.

"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."

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[tanyev]

1. So you must be a loyal party member in order to get contracts?

I don't think that's called democracy.

[htuttle]

2. Well, it worked for Saddam

...for awhile, anyway.

:shrug:

[Bozita]

3. Please run that "uniter, not a divider" BS past me one more time

[Tsiyu]

4. This IS a Dictatorship

A freakin' Banana Republic.


And Alphonso Dumbfuck Jackson is just another one of the monkeys running the show. How encouraging. :eyes:

[ComerPerro]

5. This is where the country is headed

[alfredo]

6. We have that happening here in Ky. If you are a Democrat, you

might as well forget getting (or keeping) any kind of state job.

[marmar]

7. "Why should I reward someone who doesn't like the president..."

Umm, 'cause the United States isn't George W. Bush's private corporation, as much as he might think it is. This is just unbelievable. And these bastards are just blatant about it.

[flordehinojos]

8. if i were that contractor, i would publish a really big sign in front of

my office reading, "i am the damn proud contractor who did not get the job because i don't like bush and won't suck up to him or his policies. i am damn proud to be a bush dissenter."

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