The global consulting firm that just won a one-year government contract to continue fixing HealthCare.gov is a big political donor to President Obama, WND has learned.
On Friday it was reported Accenture, a global consulting firm, obtained the $45-million contract to run the Obamacare health insurance website. The company is taking over from CGI Federal, one of two contractors that originally built the problematic HealthCare.gov portal, with CGI’s contract set to expire on Feb. 28.
Unmentioned in the scores of news articles covering the successful Accenture bid is that Obama is the top all-time recipient of the firm’s many financial contributions, with the president taking in a total of $286,168 from Accenture employees, family members and its political action committee.
No. 2 for Accenture’s donations is former Republican New Jersey State Sen. Bob Martin, and No. 3 is former President George W. Bush at $164,250. Mitt Romney received $73,085 from Accenture. Hillary Clinton raked in $50,515 in contributions from the firm, with John Kerry accepting $45,853.
Obama has a further connection to Accenture. The chief scientist for Obama’s 2012 campaign’s data analytics team, Rayid Ghani, worked at Accenture for 10 years before leaving the firm to take up the position with the president’s reelection team.
Speaking of scandals . . . we're all aware of the current, earth-shattering world class scandal surrounding the rotund NJ governor, right? I mean - the MSM is making sure we are.
I heard that - in the pot smoke filled rooms in the bowels of the NY Times building, they were debating whether or not to refer to it as "Bridge-gate." Some argued - especially the old ones who were alive in the 60s - that it might not be wise to do so because it might remind people of a certain "Lion of the Senate" who has now assumed legendary sainthood status. He had a certain "bridge-gate" of his own, back in 1969, in which a young woman drowned in the back of his Oldsmobile. He was unable to save her - but it was okay, as he was drunk. Plus, he was a "D" and better yet - his last name was Kennedy.
So - argued the older, NY TIMES hippie progressives - bringing it up this way might induce flashbacks or bad trips to the past.
But cooler heads prevailed, and the younger ones reminded them that low info voters don't even remember what happened last month or last week - much less almost 45 years ago.