Begin forwarded message:
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 9, 2006 9:56:31 PM EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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