government contract lost for not liking Bush

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: May 9, 2006 9:56:31 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: government contract lost for not liking Bush

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-hud- 
secretary,1,2340306.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

        Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson
        reportedly told a business group in Dallas that he rejected a
        government contract with an advertiser because the man told him he
        didn't like President Bush.

        A spokeswoman acknowledged that Jackson told the story. But, she
        said, the story was untrue.

        "The secretary's story was anecdotal. He is not part of the
        contracting process," said HUD spokeswoman Dustee Tucker. "He was
        trying to explain to this group how politics works in D.C."

Several Democratic politicians have called for Jackson to be fired if  
the
story is true.  The original report on the story is at
http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2006/05/08/story1.html

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


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