Servicemembers United wants the feds to get back the $4.4M they paid for the DADT survey.

[Emit]

Servicemembers United wants the feds to get back the $4.4M they paid for the DADT survey.

The Department of Defense just paid the research firm Westat the outrageous sum of $4.4 million to design and administer an email-based survey about the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law. While its development was shrouded in secrecy for weeks, leaked copies of the final version recently began circulating. To everyone’s surprise, the survey, which went out to 400,000 service members, turned out to be laced with bias, inaccuracies, and derogatory assumptions and insinuations about gay and lesbian Americans. Demand that Westat and the Pentagon repay the American Taxpayer for this outrageous waste of $4.4 million!

Their petition is here.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/07/servicemembers-united-refund-taxpayers.html

[Travis_0004]

1. Even if the survey was fair and unbiased. . .

For 4.4 million for a survey? Thats 11.00 per person!

How difficult can it be to mass send emails (which the DoD probably provides, then have a survey compile the results. I don't see why this couldn't have been done for 400,000, let alone millions.

[jp11]

2. DOD doesn't pay retail?

They probably had to fund a new system to design the computers, the email, the operating system, etc to make the survey, to administer the survey and to take the survey.

[myrna minx]

3. That survey was absurd. n/t