Monday, March 24, 2008

What Should We Talk About Today....Hmmm, How About Jim Clyburn !!


Jim's Thrown a Dud On His Dealings With HUD....
Why show the picture of Jim on the golf course with his grandson again? Because that's where Jim apparently does all his work. Don't laugh - that kid is now the Undersecretary of Transportation.....
I'm a little late, but what else could I talk about in my first post as Vice-Chair of Old Jim's Country. If you've been reading the papers, you saw that there is a bit of a stink over Jim possibly nudge-nudge, wink-winking his way into a lucrative HUD no-bid contract for a buddy of his. It went very quickly from him being an acquaintance of 15 yrs to a golfing buddy since I was about 4 years old. Must have forgot about those other 20 years....
Anyway, I'm going to play a fair angle on this one. Honestly, I don't think he mentioned anyone by name to get his friend a contract to work on rebuilding New Orleans. It was probably more like him saying 'You need to hire more minority contractors', then kinda just stared at his buddy for about five minutes. That's legal, right? Here's what my beef is...
He says he wants more minority ownership of the contracts - did I mention they were Halliburton-type, no-bid contracts? Whatever. The beef is that Jim, like he always does, has a first priority of making money for minorities. Fine with me, but there is one thing I don't like at all. Why isn't he finding the jobs for minorities IN HIS DISTRICT ??? Here's how he has jus screwed other blacks in the 6th District - like he always does.....
You might say that he did push for a minority-owned contractor in South Carolina - but it is in Hilton Head, which is the 2nd Congressional District. And worse, since it is Hilton Head, where the unemployment rate is about 3.5%, all of the people employe on these jobs will be Mexican, many of which are probably residentailly challenged as far as legal status. Then again, Jim doesn't give a crap about using illegals anyway. We owe them so much as it is....
When you look at it that way, you get the impression that Clyburn wasn't looking at the end game of pushing for just any minority-owned contractor. I imagine there were plenty of qualified contractors in the 6th District that could do the gig - but what are their golf handicaps? Or, how much have their contributed to Jim?? Nudge-nudge, wink-wink.......
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Would those really be Mexicanos or possibly Fidel's infiltraitors? The southern border is a long suspected route for dark complexions that "talk funny" and if you don't know Arabic or Farsi from Spanish, Spanglish or Texicano...