PR firm couldn’t save GSA from embarrassment, but they spent tax money on it anyway

One month before The Pitch ran this blog about the General Service Administration’s terrible PR skills regarding the tainted Bannister Federal Complex, the GSA spent a quarter of a million dollars with a public relations firm, NBC Action News’ Russ Ptacek reports.

Jane Mobley Associates (Motto: “Communication builds

community!”) won the contract at the height of Ptacek’s investigation into toxic

substances from the Honeywell-run Kansas City Plant that potentially

sickened more than 400 federal workers, many of whom have since died.

The plant and a GSA administrative building share office space at the

Bannister Federal Complex.