Yesterday, The Hill reported that the Health and Human Services Department signed a $20 million deal with a PR firm to “describe the importance of prevention while also explaining preventive benefits” of ObamaCare.
The story notes that the public relations firm Porter Novelli “won the contract after a competitive bidding process.” Interestingly, the managing director of Porter Novellis’ Washington D.C. office is Catherine “Kiki” McLean — a true “D.C. insider,” according to her bio.
Indeed she is. Among her other accomplishments, McLean’s bio also notes she was “an on-air surrogate for the Obama for America campaign.”
This, of course, raises a few questions, including: Just how competitive was the competitive bid process that went to a senior Democrat?
And isn’t this the kind of insider access Obama decried in 2008?
Also worth noting is that this all comes amidst a probe investigating “deals the White House made to help pass the health care overhaul” …