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White House Reveals Identity of Firm That Sent Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform
Fox News ^ | 8/22/09 | Major Garrett and Eric Shawn

Posted on 08/22/2009 8:30:35 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them, FOX News has learned.

The company, Govdelivery, describes itself as the world's leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions and says its e-mail service provides a fully-automated on-demand public communication system.

The confirmation comes after the White House acknowledged this week that people were receiving unsolicited e-mails from the administration about health care reform and suggested the problem was with third-party groups that placed the recipients' names on the distribution list.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: bho44; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; email; emails; fishygate; govdelivery; majorgarrett; spam; spamgate; spammerinchief; whitehousespam
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Well, well, well, lookee here. The spammer in chief is caught.
1 posted on 08/22/2009 8:30:35 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Need to check donor records — bet this group was a huge donor to ZERO! Follow the money should be the first thing anyone looks at with this Administration when facts come out.


2 posted on 08/22/2009 8:32:35 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
White House Reveals Identity of Firm

And in so doing distanced themselves, rather than say "the buck stops here."

Mr. Obama, you're no Harry Truman.
3 posted on 08/22/2009 8:33:53 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Alexrod is still digging, I see.


4 posted on 08/22/2009 8:34:25 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Who owns this company?


5 posted on 08/22/2009 8:35:00 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Cue the spam song!


6 posted on 08/22/2009 8:35:01 AM PDT by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Not too far away from your tv or computer turning itself on and “zero” appearing to calm your fears with his soothing voice.


7 posted on 08/22/2009 8:36:33 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Blood of Tyrants

O throws the firm under the bus. No surprise here.


8 posted on 08/22/2009 8:37:34 AM PDT by Wisconsinlady
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To: Blood of Tyrants

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/03/02/story6.html

The St. Paul company also provides services to numerous city and state governments, many of which will see budget pressures partly relieved by stimulus funds.

To top it off, Burns is now in talks with the White House, which is led by a tech-savvy president and has a new-media team.

“We’re really at the convergence of a few different trends,” Burns said.

Among those trends are the federal government’s more-active role in areas such as banking regulation, and the Obama administration’s promotion of transparency in government. Also, infusions of capital to federal agencies handling major projects, such as the U.S. Department of Transportation, could bring the company more business.

GovDelivery was already on track to post record revenue this year. The firm met quarterly sales goals by the end of February and expects annual revenue for 2009 to range between $9 million and $10 million. That’s up from just less than $7 million in 2008. Burns has hired 10 employees in the past 90 days, bringing his staff to 52; he still has five open positions.

“It’s like we woke up and we’re in the only growing market in the world right now: government spending,” he said.


9 posted on 08/22/2009 8:39:45 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: La Lydia

Well, well, well, mentioned in a contract signed with Alameda, California is a gentleman named Zach Stabenow. me sound familiar?


10 posted on 08/22/2009 8:40:45 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: Melchior

bttt


11 posted on 08/22/2009 8:42:05 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Al Franken’s company?


12 posted on 08/22/2009 8:43:06 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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/Beltway Bob Gibbs on "That's a lie straight from the previous administration who caused all of this economic distress that our country is in, the worst since the Great Depression 40 years ago, and has no bearing on the health careEVIL INSURANCE COMPANIES REFORM BILL that the president has made so clear in his recent speeches. No, Major, I can't clarify things any better than that!! Chuck Todd, you have a question?" /Beltway Bob off
13 posted on 08/22/2009 8:43:27 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: Snickering Hound

Good grief. Good times in St. Paul as well as in DC, as jobs expand with the federal bureaucracy. Millions of unionized in-it-for-life bureaucrats aren’t sufficient. They have to hire outside help as well.


14 posted on 08/22/2009 8:43:33 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: La Lydia

A friend of Axelrod perhaps? Or maybe a heavy donor to Bambi’s 2008 campaign?


15 posted on 08/22/2009 8:44:30 AM PDT by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: La Lydia

http://www.govdelivery.com/management.php


16 posted on 08/22/2009 8:45:17 AM PDT by TiredofItalltoo (tiredofitalltoo)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

This sounds very, very fishy. Who do we send this to?


17 posted on 08/22/2009 8:45:57 AM PDT by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Eagles6

his voice would give me convulsions having to listen to it.


18 posted on 08/22/2009 8:47:01 AM PDT by jerri
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Management Team

Scott Burns - CEO & Co-Founder

Scott has actively participated in government affairs throughout his life. Prior to co-founding GovDelivery, Inc., Scott was the Director of Marketing at SafeRent, Inc., which was the leading provider of web-based tenant screening services to apartment managers. Before SafeRent, Scott was a consultant at McKinsey and Company where he worked on new product launches and operational effectiveness for several multinational corporations. He is an active member of the Minnesota Citizens League and regularly advises GovDelivery clients on e-government related issues. Scott has received several awards for his business accomplishments and community contributions. In May, he was honored with the 2006 “Forty Under 40” award from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. In the Spring of 2006, he was recognized as an “Emerging Leader” by Twin Cities Business magazine. Most recently, Scott was named to Federal Computer Week’s (FCW) Federal 100 list recognizing individuals those who significantly influence how federal government uses information technology. Scott graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Economics.

http://www.govdelivery.com/management.php


19 posted on 08/22/2009 8:47:05 AM PDT by jimbo123
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The company, Govdelivery, describes itself as the world's leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions

I trust no outfit that purports to offer "solutions." There is rarely any deficiency or problem needing a solution, only a manufactured notion of one.

20 posted on 08/22/2009 8:47:37 AM PDT by Dysart (It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong--Voltaire)
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