Yawn...

Another Bush apointee, another crook.

Probe Finds Jackson Urged Favoritism in HUD Contracts - washingtonpost.com

An inspector general's report charges that top U.S. housing official Alphonso Jackson urged staff members to favor friends of President Bush when awarding Department of Housing and Urban Development contracts. But investigators so far have found no direct proof that Jackson's staff obeyed.

His chief of staff told investigators that Jackson, the HUD secretary, "personally intervened with contractors whom he did not like . . . these contractors had Democratic political affiliations," says the report, a copy of which was made available to The Washington Post.

This in all likelihood means the African-American head of HUD deliberately tried to deny contracts to African-American suppliers, who would lean predominantly Democratic. Scumbag.

Why the yawn? Because this will just get thrown on the ever-increasing (but ever more ignored) giant pile of elephant shit that is GOP corruption.

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