September 28, 2005
No-bid contracts
Here's a question I would pose to Scott McClellan today if I was at the White House briefing:
An editorial in Tuesday's New York Times titled "Cronies at the Till" suggests that companies with ties to the White House are profiteering through no-bid contracts for disaster relief. One of the companies mentioned is the Shaw Group. Could you tell us what ties this administration has to a company owned by the J. M. Bernard, Jr., the chairman of Louisiana Democratic Party?
The New York Times fails to mention Bernard and his political affiliation, but takes a shot at Mississippi's Republican Governor Haley Barbour, a former chairman of the RNC.