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Breaking: Obama's White House ACORN Operative Fined $775,000 For Election Violations-Used Rapists...
Gateway Pundit ^ | 10/5/09 | Gateway Pundit

Posted on 10/04/2009 10:19:46 PM PDT by American Dream 246

Breaking: Obama's White House ACORN Operative Fined $775,000 For Election Violations- Used Rapists & Burglars in Door-to-Door Registration Drives

So where does a far left political operative land after his organization is fined $775,000 for election violations that included hiring rapists and burglars to register voters? Inside the Obama White House, of course.

Obama's ACORN operative in the White House Patrick Gaspard is helping shape domestic policy--

From left: CECILIA MUÑOZ, director, intergovernmental affairs; MICHAEL STRAUTMANIS, public liaison; CHRISTOPHER LU, Cabinet secretary; HEATHER HIGGINBOTTOM, deputy director, Domestic Policy Council; PATRICK GASPARD, political director; PHIL SCHILIRO, director of legislative affairs; MELODY BARNES, director, Domestic Policy Council. (New America Today Mag)

There have been several articles written lately about Barack Obama's ACORN advisor, Patrick Gaspard, who is currently serving in the White House. Gaspard has a long history of working with ACORN-affiliated organizations. Erick Erickson at RedState reported on Gaspard's close ties to ACORN:

The story in a nutshell:

•Bertha Lewis is the CEO of ACORN. •In a review of Lewis’s contacts list, which was leaked to RedState, Bertha Lewis has the office, cell phone, home number, and private personal email address of Patrick Gaspard. •Patrick Gaspard holds Karl Rove’s position in the White House and was Obama’s Political Director during the campaign.

•In addition to Patrick, Bertha has Patrick’s brother Michael in her rolodex. She lists Michael as working at the Advance Group. •The Advance Group is ACORN’s lobbying organization. •In other words, besides having Obama’s political director’s contact info, the political director’s brother works for ACORN via its lobbying shop Matthew Vadum at The American Spectator has more on Patrick Gaspard.

Newly discovered evidence shows the radical advocacy group ACORN has a man in the Obama White House.

This power behind the throne is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush's White House.

Evidence shows that years before he joined the Obama administration, Gaspard was ACORN boss Bertha Lewis's political director in New York.

Lewis, the current "chief organizer" or CEO of ACORN, was head of New York ACORN from at least 1994 through 2008, when she took over as national leader of ACORN. With Gaspard at work in the White House, Lewis might as well be speaking to President Obama through an earpiece as he goes about his daily business ruining the country. But that's not all.

In 2008 Barack Obama hired Patrick Gaspard, a top official of the powerhouse New York-based healthcare workers union 1199, an SEIU affiliate and the largest local union in the country. In 2004, Patrick Gaspard Served As National Field Director For 527 Organization America Coming Together, a group that was later fined $775,000 in civil penalties by the federal government.

ACT hired dozens of felons some convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary – to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in Missouri and at least two other swing states. America Coming Together employed felons as voter canvassers in major metropolitan areas in Missouri, Florida, Ohio and perhaps in other states among the 17 it targeted in its drive. Some of the felons lived in halfway houses, and at least four returned to prison.

Seven of the ACT employees lived at Missouri halfway houses and at least four returned to prison. Because of this the Missouri Department Of Corrections banished ACT from its pool of potential employers for parolees, saying, "They did not want offenders handing sensitive personal information." The names of two of the ACT employees even matched those of people convicted of murder and rape. ACT was also good at getting the dead voters signed up in time for the election.

So after his organization was fined $750,000 for election violations that included hiring rapists and burglars (and possibly murderers) to canvass for his far left group, Patrick Gaspard was hired into the Obama White House.

Of course, none of this surprises us.

By the way-- Democratic candidate for US Senate Robin Carnahan employs a former ACT staffer-- Laura Egerdal as her communications director.


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Please read the comments. We need to get organized and defeat this guy in the White House and the Acorn all together BEFORE 2010!
1 posted on 10/04/2009 10:19:49 PM PDT by American Dream 246
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To: American Dream 246

a comment on Gateway Pundit:

Each of us need to do our own “citizen journalism” and start looking into our local connections between ACORN offices, SEIU and local, state and federal officials. We have a significant role in history these days. It can be the time in our history where the people took back Washington and made great strides in rooting out corruption in local and state governments as well.


2 posted on 10/04/2009 10:24:02 PM PDT by American Dream 246
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To: American Dream 246

Where is the breaking story Gateway says it has? I see the history of ACORN and Gaspard but no mentioned of when, where and by whom ACORN was fined. Is new information there or am I losing it?


3 posted on 10/04/2009 10:24:07 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: American Dream 246

SEIU literally OWNS the Democrats in the Indiana Legislature.

Democrat House Speaker Pat Bauer doesn’t even take a leak without first asking them if it’s Ok....


4 posted on 10/04/2009 10:28:41 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: American Dream 246

bump


5 posted on 10/04/2009 10:31:25 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: American Dream 246

Later


6 posted on 10/04/2009 10:35:39 PM PDT by I_be_tc
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To: American Dream 246

ping.


7 posted on 10/04/2009 10:40:37 PM PDT by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: American Dream 246

Yeah the comments were good. Best:

“...the way things are going, this Administration is going to have to stop by Bigfoot 4X4 and purchase a lift kit and monster-truck tires for that bus.”


8 posted on 10/04/2009 10:43:45 PM PDT by Bhoy
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To: Brugmansian
Where is the breaking story Gateway says it has?

I cannot find it either. Doing a minor search, there is nothing published yet. Think I'll wait on this one.

9 posted on 10/04/2009 10:59:05 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Thanks. I really didn’t know if it was me. I try to keep up on ACORN but its such a rats nest I see even that Fox News in the interview with Rathke, rather than be specific, made comments such as “it has been reported that . . .”


10 posted on 10/04/2009 11:08:09 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: American Dream 246
Used Rapists...

So we've got several issues here:

1) How did they get Roman Polanski over from France to do this?

2) Weren't all the people he canvassed too young to vote anyway?

/sarc>

Cheers!

11 posted on 10/04/2009 11:29:30 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: American Dream 246


12 posted on 10/05/2009 12:24:25 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: American Dream 246

GASPARD = America Coming Together (ACT) = GEORGE SOROS

Soros-Backed Activist Group Disbands as Interest Fades

By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 3, 2005

Steve Rosenthal, who launched America Coming Together to mobilize voters for Democrat John F. Kerry, said maintaining momentum after the election proved to be harder than expected. Billionaire George Soros’s heavy funding of the group ended after the election.
Steve Rosenthal, who launched America Coming Together to mobilize voters for Democrat John F. Kerry, said maintaining momentum after the election proved to be harder than expected. Billionaire George Soros’s heavy funding of the group ended after the election. (By Jim Graham For The Washington Post)

A year ago, the liberal group America Coming Together was on the cutting edge of national politics, spending tens of millions of dollars on a massive voter-mobilization project in every presidential battleground state.

The dream was that ACT — heavily funded by billionaire George Soros — would play a decisive role in getting Democratic nominee John F. Kerry elected president and then remain in business as a permanent force in liberal politics.

Instead, the group this week began sending e-mails to most of the 28 people who make up the remaining ACT staff warning that their paychecks would stop at the end of August. All the state offices have been, or are soon to be, closed.

The news represented a long fall for ACT and its sister group, the Media Fund. The groups had attracted such Democratic heavyweights as former Clinton aide Harold Ickes, Emily’s List founder Ellen Malcolm and Service Employees International Union President Andrew L. Stern.

The architect of ACT was Steve Rosenthal, who had won his spurs as political director of the AFL-CIO and by 2003 was determined to build a liberal voter-mobilization organization that would be independent of the Democratic Party, labor unions or other traditional interest groups.

The idea captured the imagination of liberal donors. Soros and other wealthy contributors saw ACT as a vehicle for taking the fight to President Bush, whose policies in Iraq and at home they vehemently opposed, at a time when many Democrats in Congress were treating a war president gingerly.
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Soros and his close associate — Progressive Corp. Chairman Peter Lewis — together put $38.5 million into ACT and the Media Fund. With this seed money, the two organizations collected $196.4 million, enough to set up voter mobilization programs in every presidential battleground state and to flood the airwaves with pro-Democratic commercials in the early spring of 2004 when Kerry’s campaign was broke.

By all measures but one, ACT and the Media Fund were a great success, helping to turn out record numbers of new voters. But that one measure was the one that counted. After Bush’s reelection and GOP gains in the House and Senate, Soros and Lewis pulled the plug on their support.

Soros “was disappointed by the outcome of the election,” said his spokesman, Michael Vachon. “At the same time, he is very pleased with the work that ACT did.”

Asked whether Soros will once again open his checkbook for ACT, Vachon said Soros’s plans “are evolving and not yet nailed down.”

But ACT officials are not optimistic.

For now, ACT will be reduced to a research operation, analyzing strategies to turn out key blocs of voters. Rosenthal yesterday put an upbeat face on the turn of events. “We are still forging ahead; we expect to be doing very serious research in Virginia on exurban and infrequent voters,” he said.

“It has proven much tougher to sustain this as something year-round than we had anticipated,” Rosenthal said. Now, he said, the task he and others face will be figuring out “just how to ramp up and ramp down” as donor interest rises and falls. Rosenthal will continue to work with ACT, but he said he now plans to start his own consulting company.”


13 posted on 10/05/2009 12:43:26 AM PDT by Kimberly GG (Sarah Palin - Supports a "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens. "path to citizenship" IS AMNESTY)
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To: American Dream 246
Fox news and Limbaugh are sure that there were only thousands of fraud votes in 2008. There are 37 Democrat secretaries of state who control the registered voter lists in those states. They control how many fraud votes are cast. Unless we use purple thumb dye or picture ID's which have been outlawed in Indiana by the supreme court there will be ten million fraud acorn votes in 2012...just like in 2008.

Obama knows the extent of the dissolution of the sanctity of the ballot box. He and his minions are counting on it to keep them in power. You will hear a pin drop the morning after the next presidential election when it is painfully obvious to the casual observer that the vote was rigged nationwide and there is nothing that can be done to undo the stolen election.

The progressives have destroyed the election process and are happy to eliminate it altogether. There is little that can be done unless huge outcry reaches the ears of the state governments.

14 posted on 10/05/2009 2:08:47 AM PDT by x_plus_one (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: American Dream 246

I am fairly certain that these criminals and other democrats will find a way to use taxpayer money to pay off this 775K fine.


15 posted on 10/05/2009 5:15:51 AM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: American Dream 246; FlingWingFlyer; altair; stephenjohnbanker; little jeremiah; ~Kim4VRWC's~; ...
ACORN Ping!

FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.


16 posted on 10/05/2009 6:43:28 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: grey_whiskers

: )


17 posted on 10/05/2009 6:48:26 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: x_plus_one; All

“There are 37 Democrat secretaries of state who control the registered voter lists in those states. They control how many fraud votes are cast. Unless we use purple thumb dye or picture ID’s which have been outlawed in Indiana by the supreme court there will be ten million fraud acorn votes in 2012...just like in 2008.”

THIS is our biggest problem !!

B T T T


18 posted on 10/05/2009 6:50:52 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Just another Joe

Missouri Ping!

“ACT hired dozens of felons some convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary ? to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in Missouri and at least two other swing states”


19 posted on 10/05/2009 7:33:16 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: American Dream 246
Words quoted directly from the text above:......"Assaulters"......"Burglars"......."Rapists"......."Felons"......."Offenders"......."Parolees"......."Possible Murderers"........

And these are the fine upstanding citizens the Obama administration was going to use to ring our doorbells for the upcoming census.

My hair stands on end....

Leni

20 posted on 10/05/2009 7:42:41 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Somewhere in Kenya, a Village is Missing Its Idiot!)
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