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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Right out of “1984”.
Dem U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow?
How the heck could a garden variety propagandist say it better? They just want to help people understand the real story. Just trying to clear up confusion caused by all the (screaming mob, hate filled, etc.) liars. That’s all. A public service announcement.
White House: It wasn’t us, it was Govdelivery.
Govdelivery: It wasn’t us, it was third party groups.
Third groups: It wasn’t us, it was second party groups.
Second groups: It wasn’t us, it was Bush party groups.
First thing Zero did was throw away “The Buck Stops Here” plague.
Who owns this company?
Don’t know buy here is the management team....
http://www.govdelivery.com/management.php
One of the great values in using the internet to spam people is it doesn't take much more than a room full of servers, some good phone connections, and a teenager with a computer.
And speaking of the federal bureaucracy, do you have any idea how many people work directly for the federal government and where they work?
I was wondering if he isn’t related to Debbie Stabenow. I tried to Google to find a connection, but couldn’t come up with anything. Maybe another Freeper would have better luck.
GovDelivery has contracts with 150 government agencies and thus serves as an integral part of the DNC and Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda.
Unethical? You betcha! Pack of liars? No doubt.
If Bush43 had done this, all hell would've broken loose.
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MAJOR MESSAGING - GET E-MAIL ALERTS FROM YOUR CITY ABOUT SNOW EMERGENCIES? CHANCES ARE THEY COME THROUGH GOVDELIVERY OF ST. PAUL, WHICH SENDS E-MAIL FOR MANY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - Thursday, June 25, 2009
Author: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ; lsuzukamo@pioneerpress.com
Using his desktop computer, GovDelivery Inc. CEO Scott Burns can track the government agencies that use his company to communicate with the public via e-mail.
He’s like a kid obsessively keeping track of his Facebook friends. And he’s got a lot of friends.
“In the last five minutes, we’ve sent message for ...” he pauses, and then rattles off names including the Department of Defense, the FBI, the National Science Foundation, the city of St. Paul, FEMA, and USA.gov. “That’s just the last five minutes,” he adds.
A whiteboard wall in the company’s new downtown St. Paul offices shows GovDelivery is sending 53 government e-mail messages a second for agencies ranging from the Department of Homeland Security to the Idaho Fish and Game Department.
That’s 804 million messages so far this year, or about 150 million message a month since last May.
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Nationwide, 9.1 million people have signed up for the company’s e-mail services so far this year. Its traffic spiked in May when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention churned out alerts on the H1N1 flu virus.
Originally launched as GovDocs in 2000, the company focuses on government because Burns, 33, whose dinner-table discussions growing up in Duluth revolved around politics, said he wanted to make a difference. Co-founder Zach Stabenow heads up the local and state government team.
The company competes with other e-mail marketers, but its main competition is usually its own customers’ in-house e-mail notification systems. But customers end up using GovDelivery because its software-as-a-service model is easier to use and frees up manpower, said company marketing director Jennie Olson.
GovDelivery expects revenue this year to top $9 million, up from under $7 million last year, Burns said. Its revenue has grown by 30 percent to 40 percent a year since the company’s inception, the CEO said.
More than 40 percent of its revenue comes from federal work, he said, driven by the federal government’s increasingly public role and people’s hunger for information. The company has been cash-flow neutral since 2005, plowing all its profits back into the enterprise, Burns said.
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Interesting that Fox News is doing the digging. The rest of the msm is see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil.
Leni
She'll have to dig through them to see if any of them were "real threats" (as distinct from "imaginary threats") to hand them over to the Secret Service.
They like to get that kind of stuff ya' know.
Obama needs to investigate their “profit-to-earnings” ratio. I guess it’s okay to rake in tons of money if the taxpayers are footing the bill.
Check out their privacy policy.
Never heard of them...I received one of those emails...I make comments on THE HILL and directly to senators! Never did anything with Gov delivery!!!! I DO NOT believe this, I think they are just trying to threw someone under the bus just to make it stop.
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