Pants on Fire? Jeff Frederick’s Government Contracts

Jeff Frederick, candidate for the Republican nomination for the Virginia Senate in the 36th District, is running as an anti-establishment and anti-government candidate, and claims he has received no benefit from his status as a disadvantaged minority-owned business in his dealings with the federal government.  This while his own company’s website includes an impressive list of government contracts he has accepted as a certified disadvantaged company.  Frederick is being challenged for the Republican nomination by small construction company owner Tito Muñoz.

“Frederick’s campaign manager Mick Bransfield said Frederick hasn’t benefitted from his Small Business Administration status,” reported the Prince William County News & Messenger. 

Frederick’s own company’s website, however, includes a list of federal contracts accepted while he was classified under the 8(a) disadvantaged minority program, under which Frederick claimed social and economic disadvantage:

Patent & Trademark Office IPA Blanket Purchase Agreement #45PTO254900

NECO (Navy Electronic Commerce Online) Registered

Department of Commerce COMMITS Contract No. 50-CMAA-9-00042.

GSA: IT Professional Services GSA Contract No. GS-35F-0558P

GSA: PES (Professional Engineering Services) GSA Contract No. GS-23F-0234L

GSA: MOBIS GSA Contract No. GS-10F-0262K

All of this occurs, incidentally, as Frederick is casting himself as an anti-government crusader who will upset the status quo in government and change “business as usual.”

“We don’t need bigger government. We need lesser government. We need more efficient government,” [Frederick] said. “There’s no reason why government shouldn’t have to do more with less.”

“I think you know how to spend your money better than government does particularly in this time that we’re living in,” he said. (News & Messenger)

“Jeff can say that you know how to spend your money better than the government does, but at the same time, he’s spending your money, too, with the help of his taxpayer-funded government contracts,” said Muñoz campaign manager Christin Evans.  “It’s a classic case of ‘do as I say, not as I do.’  Jeff is telling people he will change business as usual, yet he’s taking advantage of the very machinery of government he claims to oppose.”  

Frederick’s opponent, Tito Muñoz, is the owner of small commercial construction company in Woodbridge, Virginia.  He has never taken a government contract, either under minority status or otherwise.  Muñoz has never been registered in the 8(a) program with the federal government.

“Tito has never accepted a government contract, on the local, state or federal level,” Evans said.  “That’s the truth, and he doesn’t have to wallpaper over it.”

Muñoz was given the nickname “Tito the Builder” soon after an appearance by Sarah Palin in 2008.  He is a well-known conservative activist in Northern Virginia and frequently on the national stage, and has been heavily involved with the Tea Party, Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks.

A native of Colombia who became a naturalized American citizen in 2008, Muñoz will focus primarily on issues that directly affect the quality of life for Virginians: job creation, economic expansion, reduced taxes on businesses, energy independence, transportation and educational choice.

Tito “The Builder” Muñoz is the founder of the Conservative Hispanic Coalition.  He hosts “America Eres TU” (“America Is You”) on Radio WURA 920AM in Quantico, Virginia, and nationally and internationally via Ustream.  Active members of the Prince William County Republican Committee, Tito and his wife Deborah support and campaign for conservative candidates and causes locally and nationally.          

For more information please visit www.VoteTito.com

Follow Tito “The Builder” Muñoz on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/titothebuilder) and Twitter (www.Twitter.com/TitotheBuilder).