[IP] 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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