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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “You are absolutely right. Unless you believe that the contracting and the culture of corruption and cronyism and…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2005
You are absolutely right. Unless you believe that the contracting and the culture of corruption and cronyism and incompetence is reserved for contracting only in the Iraq gulf coast region. We have a third-party validator, in the New York Times today, where in the gulf coast here we have Rosemary Barbour, the wife of the nephew of Haley Barbour, Mississippi's Governor and former Republican National Committee chairman, who now has apparently received $6.4 million in contracts by her company, and 10 separate contracts from FEMA or the General Services Administration without any bid. A no-bid contract.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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