"I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I don't like President Bush.' 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.' 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.
If the quotes are accurate I agree 100% with you. What is disturbing to me is that there are people on this thread that think the US Government belongs to the republicans and defend what the Secretary allegedly did.