HUD Chief on Contractors: No Democrats, Please

[The Straight Story]

HUD Chief on Contractors: No Democrats, Please

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has a rather interesting view of the federal contracting process. Witness his April 28 speech in Dallas to the Real Estate Executive Council, reported on by the Dallas Business Journal. In the address, the HUD chief talked about his dealings with a representative of an advertising contractor seeking to do business with the agency:

"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 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://www.govexec.com/fedblog/#1634

more details here as well:
http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2006/05/08/story1.html

[Ezlivin]

1. No soldier who is a Democrat should be sent to Iraq, either

Time to tell the troops that if they didn't vote for Bush, it's time to come home.

[The Straight Story]

4. good idea :) (nt)

[tanyev]

2. Gosh, and here I thought contracts were awarded based on a

clearly defined formula of how closely the bid matched the specs and what the cost would be, with no consideration of political affliation or personal opinion. Isn't that how law-abiding democracies award contracts?

[rodeodance]

3. Some Dems called for his resignation.

[papau]

5. So did Tucker and Jackson lie in today's denial, or in yesterdays

assertion that an already awarded advertising contract was canceled due to politics?

"Are you lying now or were you lying then?"

Classic....

:toast: