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White House Reveals Identity of Firm That Sent Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform
Fox News ^ | 8/22/09 | Major Garrett and Eric Shawn

Posted on 08/22/2009 8:30:35 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

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To: jerri

Right out of “1984”.


21 posted on 08/22/2009 8:48:19 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Melchior

Dem U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow?


22 posted on 08/22/2009 8:48:32 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Does "We All Weed Up" Indicate Obama Is Now Channeling Bob Marley?)
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To: All

How the heck could a garden variety propagandist say it better? They just want to help people understand the real story. Just trying to clear up confusion caused by all the (screaming mob, hate filled, etc.) liars. That’s all. A public service announcement.


23 posted on 08/22/2009 8:48:56 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Blood of Tyrants

White House: It wasn’t us, it was Govdelivery.

Govdelivery: It wasn’t us, it was third party groups.

Third groups: It wasn’t us, it was second party groups.

Second groups: It wasn’t us, it was Bush party groups.

First thing Zero did was throw away “The Buck Stops Here” plague.


24 posted on 08/22/2009 8:48:59 AM PDT by RetSignman (Townhalls ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
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To: La Lydia

Who owns this company?


Don’t know buy here is the management team....

http://www.govdelivery.com/management.php


25 posted on 08/22/2009 8:49:08 AM PDT by deport
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To: Cicero
Millions?

One of the great values in using the internet to spam people is it doesn't take much more than a room full of servers, some good phone connections, and a teenager with a computer.

And speaking of the federal bureaucracy, do you have any idea how many people work directly for the federal government and where they work?

26 posted on 08/22/2009 8:49:27 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: deport

Scott Burns - CEO & Co-Founder

scott.burns@govdelivery.com


27 posted on 08/22/2009 8:51:38 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Melchior

I was wondering if he isn’t related to Debbie Stabenow. I tried to Google to find a connection, but couldn’t come up with anything. Maybe another Freeper would have better luck.


28 posted on 08/22/2009 8:51:42 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Melchior

GovDelivery has contracts with 150 government agencies and thus serves as an integral part of the DNC and Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda.


29 posted on 08/22/2009 8:52:19 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Executive Vice President and Cofounder at GovDelivery, Inc

Zach.Stabenow@govdelivery.com


30 posted on 08/22/2009 8:53:36 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Illegal? No.

Unethical? You betcha! Pack of liars? No doubt.

If Bush43 had done this, all hell would've broken loose.

31 posted on 08/22/2009 8:55:13 AM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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MAJOR MESSAGING - GET E-MAIL ALERTS FROM YOUR CITY ABOUT SNOW EMERGENCIES? CHANCES ARE THEY COME THROUGH GOVDELIVERY OF ST. PAUL, WHICH SENDS E-MAIL FOR MANY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - Thursday, June 25, 2009
Author: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ; lsuzukamo@pioneerpress.com
Using his desktop computer, GovDelivery Inc. CEO Scott Burns can track the government agencies that use his company to communicate with the public via e-mail.

He’s like a kid obsessively keeping track of his Facebook friends. And he’s got a lot of friends.

“In the last five minutes, we’ve sent message for ...” he pauses, and then rattles off names including the Department of Defense, the FBI, the National Science Foundation, the city of St. Paul, FEMA, and USA.gov. “That’s just the last five minutes,” he adds.

A whiteboard wall in the company’s new downtown St. Paul offices shows GovDelivery is sending 53 government e-mail messages a second for agencies ranging from the Department of Homeland Security to the Idaho Fish and Game Department.

That’s 804 million messages so far this year, or about 150 million message a month since last May.

(snip)

Nationwide, 9.1 million people have signed up for the company’s e-mail services so far this year. Its traffic spiked in May when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention churned out alerts on the H1N1 flu virus.

Originally launched as GovDocs in 2000, the company focuses on government because Burns, 33, whose dinner-table discussions growing up in Duluth revolved around politics, said he wanted to make a difference. Co-founder Zach Stabenow heads up the local and state government team.

The company competes with other e-mail marketers, but its main competition is usually its own customers’ in-house e-mail notification systems. But customers end up using GovDelivery because its software-as-a-service model is easier to use and frees up manpower, said company marketing director Jennie Olson.

GovDelivery expects revenue this year to top $9 million, up from under $7 million last year, Burns said. Its revenue has grown by 30 percent to 40 percent a year since the company’s inception, the CEO said.

More than 40 percent of its revenue comes from federal work, he said, driven by the federal government’s increasingly public role and people’s hunger for information. The company has been cash-flow neutral since 2005, plowing all its profits back into the enterprise, Burns said.

(snip)


32 posted on 08/22/2009 8:56:58 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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


33 posted on 08/22/2009 8:57:51 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Blood of Tyrants
It will turn out that the owners of the insidious communications company in question is the Minnesota firm of Ventura, Franken, Perpich, Wellstone and Keillor.

Leni

34 posted on 08/22/2009 8:58:33 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Deadline Looms Within Hours! Make FR - D.C.-Tea Party-Convention Room Reservations NOW!)
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To: Melchior
Sarah Heikkila - Director of Client Services ~ is the individual who gets to handle all those special notes sent back to Axelrod, and I am sure many of them are exceptionally ripe.

She'll have to dig through them to see if any of them were "real threats" (as distinct from "imaginary threats") to hand them over to the Secret Service.

They like to get that kind of stuff ya' know.

35 posted on 08/22/2009 8:58:38 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: LearsFool
He is the most deceptive president in history he knows nothink, and never saw the buck.
36 posted on 08/22/2009 9:07:05 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: Snickering Hound

Obama needs to investigate their “profit-to-earnings” ratio. I guess it’s okay to rake in tons of money if the taxpayers are footing the bill.


37 posted on 08/22/2009 9:11:56 AM PDT by FoxInSocks (B. Hussein Obama: Central Planning Czar)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Ha-ha

Check out their privacy policy.

38 posted on 08/22/2009 9:12:33 AM PDT by upchuck (Neuter them in 2010 - Send them packing in 2012.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Zach Stabenow’s blog is rather interesting...

http://ibzp.net/


39 posted on 08/22/2009 9:13:34 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Never heard of them...I received one of those emails...I make comments on THE HILL and directly to senators! Never did anything with Gov delivery!!!! I DO NOT believe this, I think they are just trying to threw someone under the bus just to make it stop.


40 posted on 08/22/2009 9:14:18 AM PDT by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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