Saturday, October 26, 2013

I can See Chicago From My House

"First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website."

Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company."

Townes-Whitley and her Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni."

Toni Townes ’85 is a onetime policy analyst with the General Accounting Office and previously served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, West Africa. Her decision to return to work, as an African-American woman, after six years of raising kids was applauded by a Princeton alumni publication in 1998."

George Schindler, the president for U.S. and Canada of the Canadian-based CGI Group, CGI Federal’s parent company, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract."

Daily Caller


13 comments:

deborah said...

I'm experiencing outrage overload. There's nothing to get a handle on, it's so big.

Shouting Thomas said...

Yeah, but she's black and her last name is hyphenated.

What are you, some kind of racist misogynist?

Diversity!!

Remember the Underpants Gnomes formula? It's scientific!

Step 1: Collect underpants!
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Profit!

ricpic said...

AA runs up against actual skills required.

I'm Full of Soup said...

It was a money grab and a boondoggle which is what the fed govt and pols do best.

Trooper York said...

Just be sure that this will not be reported in the mainstream media in any significant way.

Chicago politics at it's best.

john said...

I think Lem needs to have a portal to a source of blog income.

May I suggest this one?

deborah said...

"And yet think of the traffic that story is getting with the Drudge link. The rewards are there for those who are hot to get them. Fine. You like that story? Then don't whimper about lefties' expressions of contempt for right-wing media."
-Scheherazade the Illogical

bagoh20 said...

I'm not sure which is more corrupt or incompetent, Chicago or D.C., but I bet it's pretty seamless to move from one to the other.

Aridog said...

I rather doubt Michelle's associate had much to do with the hiring of CGI Federal (USA), of CGI Group (Canada) for Obamacare. As most things in Washington, everything isn't on the surface.

Now CGI Group acquired Stanley, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, in 2010 and Stanley Inc happens to be a IT provider for the US Navy, USMC, US State Dept.(passport processing, visa and citizenship processes, etc.), and US Department of Homeland Security. So you see, the CGI Group & Stanley Inc merger kind of leads to CGI Federal.

It is v-e-r-y common for contractors for elements of DOD or State to also be contractors for general IT services. You can bet General Dynamics' (of F-16 fighter fame) gets a piece, and are also the fine outfit that fired Earline Davis for talking to Sean Hannity, since they have the contract as the call center operation. That was no accident and coincidently likely also a no-bid arrangement. Old buddies and all that.

There is a reason this kind of unilateral no-bid shit goes on so often. Simple ... a jumbo fat complex byzantine contract already exists and can be relatively easily be amended. Presto! It is Magic!

It is not uncommon...Lockheed-Martin (of Raptor F-22 fame) also handles various IT and ITE tasks for DoD....badly in my opinion, reducing efficiency a lot. Say hey, you know how to build spy planes and fantastic jet fighters, so of course you must be expert at ordinary IT administration, right?! Of course you are, here's your "amendment."

Sigh.

I am at the point I no longer care enough to complain or talk about it. I've said more than I should have here, and far less than I could say. Pffbbbbtt :0

Aridog said...

Oh! I forgot. Continuing Resolutions make everything so much simpler in what I have described. CR's are good! YES!

Question is: for whom?

Basta! said...

Rumors now flying around that Valerie Jarrett's daughter Laura and Laura's husband Tony Balkissoon, son of a Liberal Toronto PM, both work or did work for CGI, and that the Facebook pages with this info are being scrubbed:

Here

Even if it turns out not to be true, it's SO believable, innit.

I'm Full of Soup said...

I am sure Meet The Press, Face the Nation etc will get to the bottom of this.

William said...

Well,if Tori Townes-Whitley was of service in gaining this contract, she certainly earned her keep and was no affirmative action hire.