A lot of Republicans oppose minority set-asides in government contracting, but there’s apparently one ever-shrinking minority group that still deserves a helping hand: Bush supporters.
Raw Story calls our attention to a Dallas Business Journal report in which the president’s secretary of housing and urban development tells of a conversation he had with a contractor trying to get a share of HUD’s advertising work.
The contractor had “made every effort to get a contract with HUD for 10 years,” Alphonso Jackson says. “He made a heck of a proposal and was on the (General Services Administration) list, so we selected him. He came to see me and thank me for selecting him. Then he said something … he said, ‘I have a problem with your president.’
“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.'”
So what happened to the Bush-opposing contractor? “He didn’t get the contract,” Jackson says. “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.”
