{"id":7362,"date":"2006-05-09T12:38:25","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T16:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2006-05-09T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T16:38:25","slug":"why-should-i-reward-someone-who-doesnt-like-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/why-should-i-reward-someone-who-doesnt-like-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Why should I reward someone who doesn’t like the president?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think it’s probably fair to call on Housing and Urban Development Secretary [tag]Alphonso Jackson[\/tag] to resign over this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jackson, a former president and CEO of the Dallas Housing Authority, was among the featured speakers at a forum sponsored by the Real Estate Executive Council, a national minority real estate consortium.<\/p>\n

After discussing the huge strides the agency has made in doing business with minority-owned companies, Jackson closed with a cautionary tale, relaying a conversation he had with a prospective advertising [tag]contractor[\/tag].<\/p>\n

“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 (General Services Administration) 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.’<\/p>\n

“I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘I don’t like President [tag]Bush[\/tag].’ 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.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the punch-line: Jackson rejected the contract, admittedly because he didn’t like the guy’s criticisms of the president. “He didn’t get the [tag]contract[\/tag],” Jackson said. “Why should I reward someone who doesn’t like the president, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the [tag]president[\/tag]? Logic says they don’t get the contract. That’s the way I believe.”<\/p>\n

So, to summarize, the secretary of HUD admitted, in public<\/em>, that he denied a qualified minority contractor funding because the contractor said he didn’t like the president. In Jackson’s mind, this is “logical.”<\/p>\n

This is probably illegal, and is definitely moronic. If some congressional Dems made an effort to follow up on this, it’s the kind of incident that could force Jackson to [tag]resign[\/tag].<\/p>\n

Update<\/em>: Think Progress sketched out some legal analysis<\/a> and suggests Jackson broke the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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