Gallup CEO loses part of his authority
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Barbara Soderlin
Gallup Chief Executive Officer Jim Clifton has ceded his authority over his company's government division, and Gallup must train all employees in ethical business practices, as part of a deal Gallup made to continue doing business with the government following conflict-of-interest accusations.
Gallup tried to hire a Federal Emergency Management Agency official who was directly involved in awarding the company contracts, and company officials gave conflicting accounts about why the FEMA official ultimately wasn't hired, according to Department of Homeland Security documents obtained by The World-Herald.
Under a three-year agreement Gallup reached in April with the government, Clifton must recuse himself from any board vote related to the company's government division. Clifton is chairman of Gallup's board of directors.
The quality of the company's work has not been at issue, and while Clifton is now listed in a government database as ineligible to qualify for government contracts over $30,000, Gallup can continue to compete for contracts.
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Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Is this the same Gallup Polling that had Romney 6 pts ahead and surging right up to election day?
Seems they are bought adn paid for by the GOP!
DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)Which way do want your poll?
BumRushDaShow
(128,895 posts)yet it should be considering their shoddy and intransigent decision on who were the "likely voters" versus the "registered voters" and sticking by their FAIL of a "likely voter" model right to the bloody and embarrassing end. Whatever credibility they once had is completely gone.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)The US Gov't continues to award it contracts for being a propaganda push-poll and social sciences research tool of the spooks. It functions in exactly the same way here for the Republican Party.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Last election, doubt all the closet democrats wanted family members to overhear every answer.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Gallup was just doing what everyone else does or doesn't do.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)in ethical business practices is like trying to rehabilitate pedophiles. It's possible, I suppose, but unlikely.
marble falls
(57,079 posts)dawn frenzy adams
(429 posts)We all know Gallup was crooked.