May 9, 2006

The land of the free...
US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso 'Jackass' Jackson says no HUD contracts if you criticize Bush.

"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," Jackson said at a forum recently.

"Whether or not it's legal, it certainly draws your judgment and the judgment of your office into question," Cal Jillson, a political science professor at SMU, said. "It's just not the tone you want to set."

Told of Jackson's comments, Mary Scott Nabers, a government-contracting consultant in Austin, had a briefer initial reaction. "Oh, my goodness gracious," she said.

Indeed.

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