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Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website

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First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website.

Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.

Townes-Whitley and her Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.

 

Toni Townes ’85 is a onetime policy analyst with the General Accounting Office and previously served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, West Africa. Her decision to return to work, as an African-American woman, after six years of raising kids was applauded by a Princeton alumni publication in 1998

George Schindler, the president for U.S. and Canada of the Canadian-based CGI Group, CGI Federal’s parent company, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract.

As reported by the Washington Examiner in early October, the Department of Health and Human Services reviewed only CGI’s bid for the Obamacare account. CGI was one of 16 companies qualified under the Bush administration to provide certain tech services to the federal government. A senior vice president for the company testified this week before The House Committee on Energy and Commerce that four companies submitted bids, but did not name those companies or explain why only CGI’s bid was considered.

On the government end, construction of the disastrous Healthcare.gov website was overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of longtime failed website-builder Kathleen Sebelius’ Department of Health and Human Services.

Update: The Daily Caller repeatedly contacted CGI Federal for comment. After publication of this article, the company responded that there would be “nothing coming out of CGI for the record or otherwise today.” The company did however insist that The Daily Caller include a reference to vice president Cheryl Campbell’s House testimony. This has been included as a courtesy to the company.

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Company behind Obamacare website in charge of nearly $2 billion in Sandy  relief

Allison Coyle

 

CGI Federal Inc., the mastermind behind healthcare.gov, is assisting the U.S.  Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the distribution of $1.7  billion in relief for Hurricane Sandy.

In a memo obtained by FreedomWorks titled, “Minutes of the 295th  meeting of the members of the Housing Trust Fund Corporation held on May 9,  2013, at 8:30 a.m.,” CGI Federal is tasked with implementing the Disaster  Housing Assistance Program. Additionally, they are asked to aid in the  implementation of the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery  Program, an assistance program that had recently obtained $1.7 billion.

 

Item five of the meeting agenda reads:

 

"Mr. Nelson presented that the State received a $1.7 billion allocation in  CDBG Disaster Recovery aid from HUD to aid impacted businesses and  residences.  He stated that the State’s Action Plan was approved on April  26, 2013 and HTFC is currently in a phase of implementing the program.  He  stated that in this phase, the corporation needs to stand-up its recovery  programs as soon as possible to deliver critical resources, and in order to do  so, the corporation requires immediate access to consultant  services to assist in policy and procedure development, training, surge  capacity, and call center assistance, and stated that CGI Federal Inc. could  provide such services."

The resolution was passed and scheduled to “take effect immediately.”

The Associated Press revealed Tuesday that a mere $700 million of the $60  billion federal aid package – 1.2 percent of the total funds– has been given to victims of super storm Sandy.

Nearly a year after the devastating storm, a majority of the 24,000 families  that have requested monetary assistance have yet to receive a penny from the  federal aid package.

Read more:  http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/26/company-behind-obamacare-website-in-charge-of-nearly-2-billion-in-sandy-relief/#ixzz2iqNSprOi

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BARACK OBAMA: "If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you."Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTgr3fG_tg

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXq1G_GuG8Q

 

Posted on October 28, 2013

George Will: It's Possible More People Have Lost Their Coverage Than Have Signed Up For Obamacare

 
GEORGE WILL: You showed the graphic a moment ago about how many people are losing their coverage in California and Florida. It is possible. As more people since the first of October have lost their coverage than have signed up for the Affordable Care Act, the government program, in all 50 states. The premise of Obama care lost in Congress, they lost in the Supreme Court, they lost in the 2012 election. They may be winning now in the implementation of it. You mentioned ten Democratic senators who are for delay. The two candidates for the Senate, in Georgia and Kentucky, Democratic candidates, have now endorsed the delay. So, there is a tide moving.
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