“Bully Pulpit” not “Bully” Enough: White House Hired Spammers
Not content to wield merely the influence of what Teddy Roosevelt called the “Bully Pulpit” of the Presidency, the White House hired spammers (at taxpayer expense, no doubt) to push the Left’s health care agenda.
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.
It is still unknown how much taxpayer money the White House provides to Govdelivery for its services.
Ah! Minnesota! A little pork for Al Franken’s constituents, no doubt!
The revelation 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…
“This is yet another ominous chapter in the administration’s rabid campaign to jam its radical health care scheme onto an unwilling public by any means necessary,” Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan said in a statement.
Because, who among us doesn’t appreciate the spam that floods our computers on a daily basis?
…Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has sent a letter to the White House asking for the “full truth” behind the Axelrod e-mails and expressing concern that “political e-mail address lists were used for official purposes.”
Chris Hansen, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union told FOX News that if the White House used the private firm, it’s the same as if it had sent the e-mails.
I wondered if the lapdog ACLU would ever finally rouse itself from its languor and at least give a token bark towards the latest invaders of our privacy?
Hat tip Wizbang
Cross Posted at Proof Positive
