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Which is dumber?(Up Front)(Alphonso Jackson of Department of Housing and Urban Development's denial of contract)(Brief article)

American Prospect, The,  June, 2006  

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> In late April, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Alphonso Jackson boasted to a Dallas audience that political loyalty rather than quality of proposal determines who can win a lucrative HUB contract. Jackson discussed having denied a contract to a well-qualified applicant (who, he even confessed, wrote a "heck of a proposal") simply because the applicant expressed his displeasure with President Bush in a private meeting with ...

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