…I never meant to make you cry…
…but Alphonso, the consensus here is that you ought to be toast. An e-mailer writes: “To deny or grant a government contract based on politics is an illegal act. For that you get punished by the courts. Claiming (and then denying) that such an act occurred is a (very) stupid act. For that you get punished by your boss. Thus it IS fireable, just not fineable.”
(Ten quatloos for the first person who gets the pop-culture reference here.)