White House Reveals Identity of Firm that Sent Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform (GovDelivery.com)

8/22/09 Major Garrett and Eric Shawn of Fox News

The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, 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, FOX News has learned.

The company, Govdelivery, describes itself as the world's leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions and says its e-mail service provides a fully-automated on-demand public communication system.

The confirmation comes after the White House acknowledged this week that people were receiving unsolicited e-mails 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.

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NOTE: This group cut a deal with the Department of Treasury to handle correspondence for federal agencies in 2007 after Paulson was named the Treasury Secretary in the summer of 2006. It looks like until Paulson was named, there was no push for GovDelivery.com to handle federal correspondence that I can find. If they do go back to 2004 with Obama as alleged on several sites, it lends credibility to the fact the Dems controlled Paulson and he undercut McCain for Obama which IMO makes sense. All of us that have been receiving odd emails from Dem organizations and the White House IMO need to look no further then GovDelivery.com. Why is the Federal Government wasting our tax dollars to spam us?

Did Gov Delivery.com really buy an expensive box as the Coronation of Obama?

Federal Consulting Group and GovDelivery Partner to Improve Government-to- Citizen CommunicationsMonday, July 30th, 2007

WASHINGTON and SAINT PAUL, Minn., July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Government agencies looking for more efficient ways to share information with the public can now utilize GovDelivery’s industry-leading public communication solution as part of the Federal Consulting Group’s suite of services, according to a partnership announced today by FCG and GovDelivery.As part of the agreement, FCG, a franchise of the U.S. Department of Treasury, will offer GovDelivery’s Email and Digital Subscription Management solution to its Federal customers. GovDelivery, headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., is the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen digital communications. “FCG and GovDelivery share a mission: to help agencies communicate more quickly and effectively with their public audiences.
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