Posted on 08/22/2009 8:30:35 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Here’s his Twitter. I’ve also noticed that he personally gave Zero $500 for his campaign. I’m still digging.
Don't bother to answer those questions. They're rhetorical.
Congressman Billybob
Plague? LOL! Did you mean "plaque"? Sorry...had to say something because it was funny.
Isn’t it a federal felony to send massive unsolicited spam e-mails??????
Mark and Bump
Data from gawker.com - August 14, 2009.
http://gawker.com/5337565/everything-you-need-to-know-about-obamas-spam+gate
“Everything You Need to Know About Obama’s Spam-Gate”
(SNIP)
“This email came from servers owned by GovDelivery, a St. Paul, Minn., firm that describes itself as “the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions,” and appears to have been contracted by the White House to manage its email blasts. The “account code” is “USEOPWH”—U.S. Executive Office of the President, White House. We called GovDelivery and spoke to CEO Scott Burns, who declined to confirm or deny that his company works with the White House, but said “you’ve obviously got the header information for that email, so draw whatever inference from that you will.”
We’ll take that as a yes. And many of the readers who claim to be spam victims provided identical header info. So we’re confident that people who at least believe they never signed up for White House emails got Axelrod’s.
How does the White House gather its email list? Burns said GovDelivery provides a platform for sending out mass emails, but that “the list acquisition strategy in not in our control.”
“We give clients tools to make it easier to sign up for things from their web site,” Burns said. GovDelivery’s platform is, by default, opt-in—meaning that only people who have signed up get the emails. “But clients can also bring their own lists into the system. When someone buys our platform, it’s an opt-in system. But the judgment is the client’s if they want to add other addresses or lists.” In other words, GovDelivery doesn’t control who the emails go to, and if the White House wanted to add addresses of people who didn’t sign up, it could have done so.
“There are a couple theories as to what’s going on here.”
(continued on link)
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So — the WH distanced themselves, BUT —— hired someone to do the job for them? So what’s the difference?
“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”
From wikipedia
“Stabenow was first married to Dennis Stabenow; the couple divorced in 1990. They have two children, Michelle and Todd.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Stabenow#Personal_life
I checked the government database for contracts and didn't see any going from the Executive Office of the President to Gov Delivery.
I did find that the Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary of HHS- brother of Harold Jr. and son of Harold Sr. contracted this firm this year... the contract expires 9-30-2009:
Damn, I meant Plaque.
Web Archive Solicitation Number: WHO-S-09-0003 Agency: Executive Office of the President Office: Office of Procurement Location: Office of Procurement
The contractor shall provide the necessary services to capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP on publicly-accessible web sites, along with information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP offices under PRA maintains a presence, throughout the term of the contract. The contractor shall if possible, capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP on non-public websites. The contractor shall include in the information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP maintains a presence both comments posted on pages created by EOP and messages sent to EOP accounts on those web sites. Publicly-accessible sites may include, but are not limited to social networking sites. The contractor shall provide a user-friendly way of organizing and searching captured information. The contractor shall properly transfer the captured information, as identified by EOP, to NARA in an acceptable format for both preservation in NARA's Electronic Records Archive and presentation at the future Presidential Library. The Contractor shall provide a method to separate content posted by other EOP component offices as required.
Read the transaction information at the top of the form.
The prepared date reads 12/31/2008, before ObamaInaauguration.
Howard Koh was nominated by Obama on March 25, 2009.
So maybe this has nothing to do with the Obama White House e-mail scam.
This group cut a deal with the Department of Treasury to handle correspondence in 2007 after Paulson was named the Treasury Secretary in the summer of 2006. It looks like until Paulson was named, there was no push for GovDelivery.com to handle federal correspondence that I can find. If they do go back to 2004 with Obama as alleged on several sites, it lends credibility to the fact the Dems controlled Paulson and he undercut McCain for Obama which IMO is true:
Federal Consulting Group and GovDelivery Partner to Improve Government-to- Citizen Communications
Monday, July 30th, 2007
WASHINGTON and SAINT PAUL, Minn., July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Government agencies looking for more efficient ways to share information with the public can now utilize GovDelivery’s industry-leading public communication solution as part of the Federal Consulting Group’s suite of services, according to a partnership announced today by FCG and GovDelivery.As part of the agreement, FCG, a franchise of the U.S. Department of Treasury, will offer GovDelivery’s Email and Digital Subscription Management solution to its Federal customers. GovDelivery, headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., is the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen digital communications. “FCG and GovDelivery share a mission: to help agencies communicate more quickly and effectively with their public audiences.
http://www.egovnews.org/?m=200707
Yeah, you’re right... but the executive office of the President hasn’t contracted this vendor. So my guess is they used a contract that is already active to have the work done. And since the Koh family seems to be pretty close to Obama it wouldn’t be a stretch to have Howard Koh redirect funds he oversees.
Thanks to Stef’s masterful driving skills, we made it there with plenty of time. Unfortunately, the buses carrying Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden did not. We waited in the sweltering heat for about two hours before the show got started. The warm-up speeches were good, but I was especially impressed with my boss (I may be biased).
Obama and Biden didn’t take the stage until well after 8 p.m., and by then everyone was getting a little antsy for things to get started. Their remarks didn’t deviate too much from their speeches at the convention last week, but of course, it was still great to see them both in person.
• October 20, 2008 ~ Paul Yerrick: Hey man. Sorry it’s been forever. It’s been crazy down here lately. I’m pretty excited about the election… first for everything. Since we...
• September 26, 2008 ~ Dad: At least the socialists seized PROFITABLE companies. Let’s seize Exxon!
• September 25, 2008 ~ Dad: Priceless. And booking OLBERMAN as McCain’s replacement was a stroke of genius!
• September 17, 2008 ~ stefy: boo… I tried to embed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =Um_dn7Fe-lw
• September 17, 2008 ~ stefy:
• September 12, 2008 ~ stefy: today this will be a chimi instead of cake! happy birthday my cutie!
• September 12, 2008 ~ Dad: Well, at least your table manners have improved.
Are you effing kidding me?
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