After Series of Conflicting Statements, HUD Spokeswoman Goes on ‘Scheduled Leave’
After Series of Conflicting Statements, HUD Spokeswoman Goes on ‘Scheduled Leave’
On April 28, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson told a real estate group that he had canceled a government contract because the contractor criticized President Bush. Since then his spokeswoman, Dustee Tucker, has given conflicting explanations of the event. Let’s review —
May 3: Tucker tells the Dallas Business Journal that the contract Jackson was referring to in Dallas was an actual HUD “advertising contract with a minority publication.”
Early yesterday: Tucker tells the Dallas Morning News that Alphonso Jackson was referring to a real contract that was canceled. She even provided additional details of Jackson’s encounter with the contractor that Jackson did not mention during his April 28 speech: “When first asked about the episode Tuesday, Ms. Tucker spoke as if the contractor existed, saying he had approached Mr. Jackson ‘trashing, in a very aggressive way’ him and the president.”
Later yesterday: Tucker tells the Dallas Business Journal that Alphonso Jackson made the whole thing up: “He was merely trying to explain to the audience how people in D.C., will say critical things about the secretary, will unfairly characterize the president and then turn around and ask you for money,†Tucker said. “He did not actually meet with someone and turn down a contract. He’s not part of the contracting process.†She repeats this version to the Dallas Morning News: “’It’s not a true story. It’s a made-up story,’ said Jackson spokeswoman Dustee Tucker, adding that he was only trying to make a point about how Washington works.”
Today, ThinkProgress made several attempts to contact Dustee Tucker at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. We were routed to Jerry Brown in the Office of Press Relations. Mr. Brown couldn’t answer our questions about the inconsistencies in Ms. Tucker’s statements. He also informed us that Ms. Tucker was now on “scheduled leave” and would not return until “next week.”
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How conv-e-enient!
May 10th, 2006 at 4:32 pmShe had a party to go to.
May 10th, 2006 at 4:32 pmPerfect stripper name …
May 10th, 2006 at 4:33 pmI’d do her….again
May 10th, 2006 at 4:35 pmShe must have still been drunk from the 2003 party
May 10th, 2006 at 4:35 pmShe has the look of someone enjoying sucking on the government teet…
May 10th, 2006 at 4:36 pmThey only call it “scheduled leave” if you really hadn’t planned on going. Sorry sweetcakes, looks like you’re taking the fall for this one.
May 10th, 2006 at 4:36 pmAnyone want to bet on Jackson going on scheduled leave?
May 10th, 2006 at 4:37 pmI’m sure when Dusty returns from her well deserved vacation (she works so hard, you know), she will have all the Bush lawyer talking points down pat.
May 10th, 2006 at 4:37 pmrun….run & hide….if you close your eyes tight enough, cup your ears and scream “I CAN’T SEE YOU! I CAN’T HEAR YOU! this whole mess will go away
May 10th, 2006 at 4:38 pmHe also informed us that Ms. Tucker was now on “scheduled leave†and would not return until “next week.â€
Scheduled just this morning, in fact.
May 10th, 2006 at 4:38 pmThis all fits, folks…
May 10th, 2006 at 4:38 pmBush lives a fairy tale life.
Nothing ever ‘really happens’.
When it does, & it doesn’t sit well
with the American public, it changes
to ‘this was just make believe’.
I think it’s about time Bush takes his
‘Scheduled Leave’ again, eh? Maybe
it will be permanent this time.
Did Dustee Tucker do any moonlighting at the Dukesters Watergate hotel parties?
-GSD
May 10th, 2006 at 4:40 pm“Dustee” with two e’s makes it a stripper name.
May 10th, 2006 at 4:41 pmDo what you feel necessary with “Tucker.”
:-D
She’s HOT… I’m sorry, but she is…
May 10th, 2006 at 4:41 pmWell Roger, don’t hookers have to be?
Oh, she isn’t….are you sure?
May 10th, 2006 at 4:43 pmeh….liberals DO IT BETTER!
May 10th, 2006 at 4:44 pm#15 Why else would she have the job?
May 10th, 2006 at 4:44 pmThis mess looks to be moving from simmer to boil…I actually kind of enjoy that the Republicans drag these messes out…as each day passes we get closer and closer to the midterm elections. If the Democrats had been given three wishes from a genie right after the 2004 election, they couldn’t have been much better than the events that have actually happened. Better yet..it looks like there is more to come.
more observations here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
May 10th, 2006 at 4:45 pmOk, seriously. This is speculation about nothing. Yes, it seems quote convenient. Might be bad timing. But it might also be REAL.
Do you know how much leave gov’t employees get? Employees with 3 years of “service” get 6 hours of discretionary “annual” leave per pay period. That’s right at 4 weeks a year (really, 3 weeks, 4.5 days). All that, PLUS 2.5 weeks of sick leave and 11 federal holidays. That’s a lot of vacation time, not to mention it’s 1) wedding season, 2) vacation season.
Nothing new to see here. Move on …
May 10th, 2006 at 4:48 pmShe probably had to go have plastic surgery on her humongous nose.
(This is a Pinocchio-esque reference to the fact that she’s told so many inconsistent stories over the past few days, her nose must have grown to mighty-oak-tree lengths. It is not meant to be a slam on Tucker’s physcial appearance. Or her semmingly awkward dance moves. Or her humongous nose.)
May 10th, 2006 at 4:49 pmthis is what happens when a political hitman like Karl puts a political hack in every office from FEMA to HUD to 14th Undersecretary of Concessions at Smokey Mountain National Park.
The media never followed up on the hacks running/ruining Iraq.
May 10th, 2006 at 4:55 pm15, Yeah, She is hot, but I try to avoid women with obvious mental issues, such as being a republican. Liberal women are much more of a turn on for me =)
It seems very strange that she is on vacation the day after this blows open. too coincidental…..
May 10th, 2006 at 5:01 pmdustee…wow, i was expecting a fat-ass republican with a cowboy hat and a teeny penis…
nice surprise!
May 10th, 2006 at 5:06 pmYou can see more of Dustee at http://www.madisondc.org/gallery.html# . Unless I’m mistaken, she’s the third one from the right, black dress with white print, in the Flash slideshow picture with 8 other girls at the top of the page.
May 10th, 2006 at 5:09 pmShe’s a babe. Schwiiing!
May 10th, 2006 at 5:10 pmIt’s like every single day the White House and the GOP give us three or four brand new episodes of “Short Attention Span Theatre”. Not one of them comes to a close before another jumps up and takes center stage. This is just our afternoon matinee.
The Republicans are crying to their base, “If the Democrats take over, they’ll be holding hearings for the next three years!”
Well, first of all, it’s more like the next five or six years. But, secondly, if the dumbass, criminally insane Republicans would just take a day off from malfeasance every so often, they wouldn’t be inviting so much attention to their morass of ethical violations.
You don’t like being investigated? Stop breaking the damn law!!!
May 10th, 2006 at 5:14 pmhey! good news! randi rhodes wants to hear from republicans – what ONE good thing has bush done for the country? … 866-303-2270
May 10th, 2006 at 5:21 pmGoebbels:
Give her a call:
Contact: Dustee Tucker
(202) 708-0685
http://www.hud.gov/news/
from http://www.hud.gov/news/release.cfm?content=pr05-136.cfm
May 10th, 2006 at 5:21 pm#27 – OMG – truer words were never spoken. I am still laughing at the last line. I will be laughing at that all the way home!!!
May 10th, 2006 at 5:23 pmbuuummp, buuummp, buuummp
Another One Bites Tha Dust!!!!!
May 10th, 2006 at 5:31 pmWhat’s with Ann Coulter’s body double on the right? Holy Big Face….
May 10th, 2006 at 6:06 pmI’d hit it…
May 10th, 2006 at 6:16 pmThe women keep getting younger, and the men, well they keep getting younger women to enjoy their company at the annual Bachelors and Spinsters Ball.
That’s the text that accompanies the photo you use. And they wonder why Republicans keep getting arrested for pederesty.
May 10th, 2006 at 6:18 pm[...] Dustee Tucker, the HUD spokeswoman who has more explanations than she has dipthongs, has taken a conveniently-timed leave of absence. [...]
May 10th, 2006 at 6:31 pmI’d hit it, too…
but the other one, the redhead, really WANTS it…
May 10th, 2006 at 6:51 pmDon’t be surprised if she gets into a freak windsurfing accident or accidentally wanders off a cliff while on vacation…
May 10th, 2006 at 6:54 pmSo does “scheduled leave” mean she sleeps with Luca Brasi now, or what?
May 10th, 2006 at 9:11 pmWhen are these people going to follow my dear departed fathers advice. Just tell the truth then you don’t have to remember what you said it will always be the same. Oh well I am just a blue guy in a red county within a blue state.
May 10th, 2006 at 9:31 pmNeil
C’mon people, reserve your bile for the crook Jackson himself. Don’t subject the powerless underling to sexist unfunny personal smears. It lacks class, is unfair, and reflects poorly on YOU. For all we know Ms. Tucker may well be a decent human being, and her testimony against Jackson may be quite useful down the road. I’m frankly embarassed by the quality of many of the comments here, and you should be too.
May 10th, 2006 at 9:40 pm#25 – yeah, she’s in the member list
May 10th, 2006 at 10:11 pmCaption contest;
Would you like the new or used Tramp-o-line?
May 10th, 2006 at 10:35 pmSo she claimed it was a true story, BEFORE she claimed that it was a made-up story, huh? She is clearly overdue for her “Spokesperson Spin” refresher course. Thank goodness she already had that ‘leave’ scheduled. Get with the ‘programming’, Sister!!
May 11th, 2006 at 12:59 amDustee Tucker needs to meet Dusty Foggo > they might become instant friends, but not lovers because Foggo’s sweety is Brent Wilkes > lol.
May 11th, 2006 at 2:13 amShe is hot, but don’t be douche bags about it. Just because she is attractive and at a party (or just because she is a Republican) doesn’t mean she is a prostitute or a tramp, and it’s really lame to insinuate it.
May 11th, 2006 at 2:24 amAnother conservative Bushie flack bites the dust. Maybe she is on vacation with that 24-yr old twit from NASA public affairs who instructed scientists to teach the “Big Bang” theory.
Looks like Dustee Tucker might have had a little of the “Big Bang” herself. Maybe she is off interviewing for a job as a pole dancer somewhere.
May 11th, 2006 at 4:11 amOh my God! Dustee Tucker wasn’t available for comment! Apparently she doesn’t realize how important ThinkProgress is.
May 11th, 2006 at 7:53 amWrite your own caption…..
Woman on right: Dusteee, dearest did you do that,..? my eyes are like positvely burning from the odor.
Dustee: No you bitch, but if you keep looking at me I’ll do it again.
May 11th, 2006 at 8:02 amThese people remind me of middle school kids. You can be looking straight at them, catch them doing something they shouldn’t be, while they see you seeing them, and they will still deny whatever it is they’ve done until they are blue in the face.
Psychologically neocons are stuck at 12.
May 11th, 2006 at 8:51 amMs. Tucker is not the tyarget here, people, any more than Scott McClellan was at fault for all the crazy stuff that the Bush administration does. Frankly, I bet she said “I’m going on vacation, and you assholes can straighten this out for ourselves”. She’s just a cog in the dumbass machine. I feel bad for her.
May 11th, 2006 at 9:28 amShe should quit and write a tell all.
#51
Yeah…kind of like Clinton…”Define sexual relations…I don’t recall…blah blah blah.”
May 11th, 2006 at 9:53 am#51
Kind of like Kennedy with his emergency vote story. It’s quite amazing how you lefties will ignore his prescription drug addiction and relentlessly abuse Limbaugh for his.
May 11th, 2006 at 9:56 amJuvinile sexual inuendo towards someone who is so far down in the cog business is not appropriate. Nor is the objectivization of any woman in the work place. Use your anger (and why would you be angry about something like this, save it for the something really bad, like still no armor) to actually accomplish something – write to HUD or your representative or your blog on myspace. Jeebus
May 11th, 2006 at 10:14 amscanner:
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
May 11th, 2006 at 10:25 amA: There’s nothing funny about keeping women in the dark.
I agree with the previous sentiments.
She may be attractive, she may be personally nice, she may even be a solicitous lover. . .
But bottom line is, she’s willingly thrown in her lot with a criminal cabal. She’s already a proven dissembler. One can only hope that the reason she’s taking this sudden leave is because she doesn’t want to have to turn into an outright liar.
Sorry, there are plenty of girls out there who want to do the right thing, who know the difference between right and wrong behavior, who are compassionate, who do not pervert Chrisitianity, and who are not a HAL 9000 ready to blow a gasket.
(I just wish I could find one!)
May 11th, 2006 at 10:57 amMr. Jackson if you’re nasty…
How many working days until sorry, sorry HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson resigns, probably late on a Friday, too late to make the 6:00 news?…
May 11th, 2006 at 12:56 pmActually she is much better looking in person. And to tell the truth, she is a pretty damn hard-worker and dedicated to whatever she does. I knew her in college and though we disagreed on everything (and I pretty much mean everything) I grew to like and respect her because she wasn’t all talk. She was one of the few that actually followed-through on things and did the things that needed to be done. I certainly would not call her a friend, but I did respect her.
May 11th, 2006 at 1:08 pmanyone know what Mike Brown’s doing? Bet he’s only a phone call away
May 11th, 2006 at 1:12 pm#60, Ben, as I said in a previous post, maybe the sudden vacation is because she is uncomfortable getting in the position where she knowingly has to tell a lie.
In which case, good for her.
May 11th, 2006 at 1:14 pmhttp://www.wonkette.com/politics/dustee-tucker/dustee-tucker-really-is-on-vacation-173099.php
May 11th, 2006 at 2:50 pmWell at least Ben admits he works for Karl Rove on here, since he knows Dustee > see post 59.
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