White House Reveals Identity of Firm That Sent Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform

Fox News ^ | 8/22/09 | Major Garrett and Eric Shawn

[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.

[EGPWS]

Need to check donor records — bet this group was a huge donor to ZERO!

Scott Burns is a self proclaimed democrat.

[LibFreeUSA]

Q - Does GovDelivery sell or distribute email lists to government entities or other organizations?

A - No, GovDelivery does not offer any email lists for free or for sale to its clients and does not provide any data mining services.
- Clients are responsible for building their own contact lists using tools provided by GovDelivery or using other means for gathering contact information from interested citizens.

- Scott Burns August 18, 2009 at 12:01:33 PM

[_Jim]

Caught!

Dance around this item Gibbs!

[EGPWS]

Dance around this item Gibbs!

Don't underestimate Gibb's, he knows all the steps via experience.

[JavaJumpy]

There’s certainly money in it for someone, because when you use telephone or snail mail and provide your non-electronic contact information you don’t hear a peep.

[nutmeg]

Interesting that Fox News is doing the digging. The rest of the msm is see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil.

Yep, excellent job by FNC's Major Garrett and Eric Shawn!

[trimom]

I wonder what the contract price was for that promotion! After all, we paid the bill, didn’t we?

[GOPJ]

Major Garrett and Eric Shawn - real journalist - they go out and get the story - rather than having dems call it in...

[browardchad]

I've seen quite a few people comment, here and elsewhere, that they only email their reps and senators, and they got the HC email.

Has Axelturf consolidated the Obama list with Dem Congressional list, perhaps?

[Salvation]

Send them a long return message — opting out of any obamacare plan.

etc.

etc.

LOL!

NO OBAMACARE AT ALL!

[kevinm13]

There isn’t an ounce of truth that comes from this White House. David Axelrod is the biggest liar. 0bama lies but most of the time he believes what he is lying about. Joe Biden is just too dumb and Rahm Emanuel coordinates all the lies.

[Gondring]

Check out their privacy policy.

I love the bunch of folks standing in the desert at the top. Stranded in the President Obama wasteland, I guess.

[kara2008]

How much have the Feds paid this third party ESP to send its spam propaganda email campaigns?

Have they overpaid a ridiculous amount like they did with a $16 million dollar "redesign" of the recovery.org site?

[kara2008]

How much have the Feds paid this third party ESP to send its spam propaganda email campaigns?

Have they overpaid a ridiculous amount like they did with a $16 million dollar "redesign" of the recovery.org site?

[blueyon]

I’ve seen quite a few people comment, here and elsewhere, that they only email their reps and senators, and they got the HC email.
Has Axelturf consolidated the Obama list with Dem Congressional list, perhaps?

You may be on to something as my Senators/Congressmen are Webb, Warner and Nye, sorry to say ALL Democrats. I hope FOX keeps digging as I call BS on this excuse... White House needs to try again!

[MamaTexan]

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

Exactly! The federal government is a MASTER at using others to do their dirty work, so they can cry "Not it!" end escape without consequence.

[Western Phil]

A - No, GovDelivery does not offer any email lists for free or for sale to its clients and does not provide any data mining services. - Clients are responsible for building their own contact lists using tools provided by GovDelivery or using other means for gathering contact information from interested citizens.

Sounds like Obama provided the list of spamees.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Scott Burns:

[Cicero]

No offense intended.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!