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."
Said by one of Bush's cabinet it's cronyism to the nth degree and despicable.
How about loosing the contract by the unnecessary and unprofessional comments as stated above. Not only was a comment like this unnecessary in the context, but it is an interesting reflection of the person if he feels the need to say this in the context.
Would you hire someone who comes to an interview and they choose to make the topic an unrelated rant about the President? I don't care if it were Clinton or Bush, I wouldn't hire someone with that little judgment.
I don't think so.
At last, someone in the Bush administration uses his head for something other than a hatrack, and you find it "despicable?"
Do you perhaps think the Clinton admin was any different???
Or do you think that we should reward our enemies and slap down our friends?
It should be investigated because he said it. But it happens, always has, and always will.
Yet what's most amusing about this piece is the context of the revelation. Government contracts should be awarded on merit alone, but where was this "revelation" made? At a speech sponsored by a national minority real estate consortium.
TOO BAD SO SAD.
More to this story Bump.
Good if it really happened. It wasn't meant to be an open OP/ED bitch session. For someones jockeying for contracts you don't knock anyone because you never know the real connections, just sell based on cost, how good you are and the services you provide.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see a source cited for the quote. Was it caught on tape? Did someone jot it down? Is there corroboration to the original claim that these words were actually spoken?
Facts. We need facts.
I don't believe the story either. There's something more to this.
The contracts don't belong to a company led by Bush. Bush is the selected administrator of the executive branch, but the contracts are awarded by the United States of America, not the President as an individual.
If the guy said "I hate America", that would be a different story.
There are rules about federal contracting, and none of them require an oath of allegiance to the man serving in the White House.
WELL he IS the President.....
'I have a problem with your president.'
What an incredibly dumb thing to say! Amazing! "Give me a job. I hate your boss." I'm just sittin' here shakin' my head. That guy's too dumb to be in business!
actually the contractor should have kept his mouth shut.
Seems like he is a trouble maker and not someone you would want to do work for you regardless. I question the validity of the encounter.
Remember we are only having the view of the complaining democrat who was rejected.
This is fine.
"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."
This is wrong, assuming it is a remotely accurate quote. Not reprimand wrong...firing wrong.
As if Coca-Cola would award an advertising contract to someone who fessed that they hated the management of Coca-Cola and/ or detested Coca-Cola products?
Might be just a tad conflict of interest.
If the secretary did in fact say this, the President would unload him immediately. It just does not square with the character of this administration.
It is intended to set up another "avenue of investigation" on the chance the Democrats regain power...and to gently pitch them a "evidence" that they can use to "prove" corruption.
I would put money on the fact this is complete and utter BS. I would say that the majority of career bureaucrats working for the President don't like him simply because he holds them to a standard to which they are unaccustomed, and he hasn't fired them.
What kind of an idiot tells a political appointee that they hate the man who appointed them? After all the applications, background checks and red tape. What an imbicile this guy was! He deserved to lose the contract.