Patently Corrupt and Pretty Stupid

I'm pasting a bit from an email I got from a Democratic agitation group:

"Alphonso Jackson, the Republican Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, told a story recently during a talk he gave in Dallas. Here's what he said, according to the Dallas Business Journal:

Jackson closed with a cautionary tale, relaying a conversation he had with a prospective advertising contractor.

"He had made every effort to get a contract with HUD for 10 years," Jackson said of the prospective contractor. "He made a heck of a proposal and was on the (General Services Administration) list, so we selected him. He came to see me and thank me for selecting him. Then he said something ... he said, 'I have a problem with your president.'

"I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I don't like President Bush.' I thought to myself, 'Brother, you have a disconnect -- the president is elected, I was selected. You wouldn't be getting the contract unless I was sitting here. If you have a problem with the president, don't tell the secretary.'

"He didn't get the contract," Jackson continued. "Why should I reward someone who doesn't like the president, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the president? Logic says they don't get the contract. That's the way I believe.""

What he said he did is, uh, illegal. He later said the story was "anecdotal" (he meant apocryphal) and that the crime he admitted to in public never actually took place. Still, the last line is telling: "That's the way I believe."

So even if he never did what he said he did, he still admits that he believes in such corruption. So he's corrupt, stupid, and ignorant given he thought anecdotal meant apocryphal. Par for the course in this, the worst administration ever.