Jackson’s photo homages to be removed.
Jackson’s photo homages to be removed.
In February, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Alphonso Jackson decided to honor himself with giant photo exhibitions in two of the lobbies at HUD’s headquarters. Many of the large images featured Jackson with President Bush. The Washington Post’s Al Kamen reports today that one of the displays has been removed “to make way for some filming of ‘State of Play,’ a movie starring Russell Crowe.” The other one will likely be taken down shortly:
As for the even larger photographic homage to Jackson at the south entrance — the one used by visitors — we’re hearing those prints will be removed when he goes. (Look for special autographed copies on eBay any day now. That should help defray lawyers’ fees.)
Then there’s Jackson’s painted portrait, the one he commissioned simultaneously with those of four predecessors — Jack Kemp, Henry Cisneros, Andrew Cuomo and Mel Martinez– for $100,000. They are all being stored in the basement, our colleague Mary Ann Akers reports, waiting for the right moment for hanging in the snazzy HUD auditorium to be completed in May.
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(Look for special autographed copies on eBay any day now. That should help defray lawyers’ fees.)
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I’ll be interested to see how much a large photo of Jackson will fetch.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 amThey are all being stored in the basement, our colleague Mary Ann Akers reports, waiting for the right moment for hanging in the snazzy HUD auditorium to be completed in May.
And just how much is this “snazzy HUD auditorium” going to cost us?
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 amI might put in a bid on the picture of Bush rubbing Alphonso’s bald head “for luck”.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 am// vomit //
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 amal kamen is highly undervalued. his column is always a terrific source of these little nuggets that reveal much about the players.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 amThey are all being stored in the basement, our colleague Mary Ann Akers reports, waiting for the right moment for hanging in the snazzy HUD auditorium to be completed in May.
And just in time to start housing all the folk who lost their houses due to predatory lenders. Perhaps we should start referring to this snazzy new auditorium as the parish of St. Alphonso.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 amPerhaps Alphonso can put up some of them in his cell…
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:13 amJesus H. Christ
While homeowners lose houses, the Secretary of Housing & Urban Development is more interested in a portrait gallery than getting the mortgage crisis in check.
Another Bush appointee bites the dust, SSDD.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:21 amIt is really absurd that this guy had such a high opinion of himself that he didn’t even possess anything approaching a moral compass that could’ve clued him in to the fact that creating a picture gallery of himself was at best really wierd and at worst obnoxious!
I wonder what the people who work there thought every day when they came in to see the waste of our dollars?
I’d be happy to take all of those pictures off their hands, gratis of course, my bird cages could always use some flooring.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:32 amTypical BushitCo behavior, it’s all about the cult of personality. Oh, and never, ever admitting you’re wrong. Time for a basement cleanup, recycling party.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 amRadical Stalinist TP poster Zooey
ROFLMFAO.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 amLike Rick and Ilsa always had Paris in Casablanca, the American people will always have this image of George W. Bush and Alphonso Jackson.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:57 amHow ridiculously obnoxious and tacky ; he accepting donations to have several of them made in velvet ?
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 amThat image is unforgettable–Mr. Bush has a habit of demeaning his associates with nasty nicknames like Turdblossom for Karl Rove, and head rubbing for Alfonso Jackson.
What a high price his associates have to pay in order to be close to George Bush.
And what’s new about Bush appointing loyal, incompetent administrators?
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 amFor IgnoranceIsNotBliss. The cost of the new cafeteria/auditorium or cafetorium is $7 million at a time when HUD is decimating public and assisted housing.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:01 pmCronyism is what GW666 endorses, and Cronyism is what you get. Waste of public funds on someone’s ego.
He should be charged for the prints and the painting.
$200,000 is due now Mr. Jackson.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:21 pmWhen Al Jackson is in the slammer, he can reminisce about his grand works at HUD. It’s another example of this administration’s lack of ethics and credibility.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:46 pmThe ego is the problem, with everyone.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:52 pmWhat is with these people? What sort of small-minded wannabe plasters the lobby of a department that they are managing with personal aggrandizement? Hint: If your employees don’t respect you before you put up a paean to your lack of penile volume, tacking some pics to the wall of you shaking the President’s paw ain’t going to help.
Meh, he probably just wanted the visitors to know who to slip the money to.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:01 pmWith the Bushies, corruption comes with grandiosity.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:24 pmNot only did the Bushies ignore New Orleans after Katrina, they benefitted financially from the disaster.
Time to spend some time with a cellmate, Al.