The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass emails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them.The company, Govdelivery, describes itself as the world's leading provider of government-to-citizens communication solutions and says its email service provides a fully-automated on-demand public communication system.It is still unknown how much taxpayer money the White House provides to Govdelivery for its services.
The revelation comes after the White House acknowledged this week that people were receiving unsolicited emails from the administration about health care reform and suggested the problem was with third party groups that placed the recipients' names on the distribution list.
Republicans quickly pounced on the news."This is yet another ominous chapter in the administration's rabid campaign to jam its radical health care plan scheme onto an unwilling public by any means necessary," Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan said in a statement.
The White House also recently pulled the plug on a controversial email address, flag@whitehouse.gov, that was established for supporters to report "fishy" information about heath care reform.
The fact is that the firm sending out these mass emails is the same as the White House sending them, but only now with the issue of tax payer money being used.
