Amtower - Not that I have an opinion....

Amtower as a member of the "press"

For several years now, because of my e-newsletters and for the last 15 months because of my radio show, I have had press credentials. This makes  getting into conferences, etc, cheaper and easier. All of the events I attend are around doing business with the government. They are business events, not political events.

But since I am now listed in Bacon's (some kind of media directory) - I get political emails, probably because my business is the business of government. Toby Chub-something from some left of Center group (the society for electing jerks who promise to spam only when it's really important) does not seem to graps the meaning of TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST, JERK, and other subtle missives I have sent along - more than a few times. When I ask to be removed, I mean it.

When people ask me to take them off my lists, I do so quickly.  I do not need is people mad at me for spam. I do not want to be included on any anti-spam campaign - those folks are mean!

One of the things I speak and write about for those selling to the government is to avoid spam at all costs. You can get federal email addresses from federal web sites, but spamming these folks is stupid. You will be blacklisted at federal sites and you will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

So, Toby, take me off your @#%! list, or next time I will do a parody of you that will go down in blog-history.

Not that I have an opinion.

Blogging and Radio

I interviewed Geoff Livingston, Alice Marshall and John Kamensky today for my Friday (6/8) 2PM "Amtower Off Center" on WFED (1050 AM and simulcast and archived on www.FederalNewsRadio.com ) Very cool show - if you catch it , send me an email w/ your comments.

As I am new to blogging, this was an eye-opener for me.

Candidate impact on Govt Business

Political pandering is nothing new, and I am not surprised at what is going on, but will comment anyway.

Hillary seems to think we should eliminate 500,000 outsourced federal contracting jobs.

Rudy seems to think we should further slash the federal employee count.

Both seem to have come up with magic numbers by reading the entrails of their opponents - and both are pandering with little thought given to anything but a cursory glance at the poles and making what they feel are safe, but popular statements.

Bill Clinton's National Performance Review led to the first real downsizing of the federal employee count in the last 60 years, but also led to more outsourcing by the feds. So I guess Hilary thinks Bill's NPR was dumb.

And Rudy, if you want to slash the Federal employee count - start with the nearly 8,000 political hacks the president gets to appoint. Most of these people are not worth the sweat off your (insert body part here).

It is no coincidence that both of these candidates are from NY. They probably both read that idiot boy Lipton from the NY Times, the one who wrote about the "revolving door of government service", implying career feds were the prooblem. Except all of his examples were appointees.

It must be something in the NY air. But I am sure that the symptoms will be displayed by all candidates in the very ner future.

Not that I have an opinion.