Posted on 10/04/2009 6:23:26 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A well armed militia
That’s why 2010 is so important.
I would expect this to be a banner fund-raising year for the GOP. We will open our wallets to defeat these devils and realize the 11/10 election is for all the marbles and the only way we can put some brakes on their commie agenda.
Well, there are 90 million of us gun owners. Do you really think they have the numbers to put all of us down?
Do you really think that they can gather the numbers to even challenge 90 million pissed off, gun owning patriots?
Yamamoto didn't. Stop fretting.
Right on, right on, right on...
Way past time. They are so used to doing things the Chicago way, they really thought they could do anything they wanted in the WH. Newsflash dumbasses, The US has over 300 million people and more than half hate your guts. This ain’t Chicago boys.
Gaspard’s former boss, whom he ultimately replaced as the political director of the giant New York SEIU local, 1199, Jennifer Cunningham
White House Director of Political Affairs, Patrick Gaspard, has close ties to Bertha Lewis and to ACORN, Matthew Vadum and Erick Erickson
in late 1995, just as Obama was seeking New Party endorsement in Chicago, Patrick Gaspard was working as a New Party organizer in New Jersey. (This was reported in “Jersey Man Hopes to Create Third Political Party,” NPR, “Morning Edition, “ September 28, 1995). Then, in the July 2, 2001 issue of “The Nation,” Gaspard and Bertha Lewis jointly published a reply to a June 4 Nation article by Doug Ireland which had been critical of the New York’s Working Families Party (a successor to the New Party, led by New Party co-founder Dan Cantor, and largely controlled by ACORN and the SEIU). In the course of their letter, Gaspard and Lewis describe their extensive joint involvement in Working Families Party activities. The letter is signed: “Bertha Lewis, ACORN, WFP; Patrick Gaspard, SEIU State Council, WFP.” This does seem to confirm and extend the new evidence of a close political tie between Patrick Gaspard and ACORN’s Bertha Lewis.
In particular, the connection between Gaspard, Lewis, the New Party, and the Working Families Party ought to draw our attention back to what may ultimately be the most important Obama-ACORN tie of all, his time with Chicago’s New Party.
Patrick Gaspard: Obama’s Glue Man
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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.
Rathke writes at his blog:
Tell me that 1199’s former political director, Patrick Gaspard (who was ACORN New York’s political director before that) didn’t reach out from the White House and help make that happen, and I’ll tell you to take some remedial classes in “politics 101.”
The “before that” time period Rathke is referring to is 2003 when Gaspard was executive vice president for political and legislative affairs for 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. According to publicly available disclosure documents, Gaspard registered as a federal lobbyist for SEIU on Oct. 22, 2007. The registration and subsequent disclosures indicate he lobbied Congress on SCHIP, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Gaspard has a long history of political involvement stretching back to at least 1989 when he volunteered for the David Dinkins mayoral campaign in New York City. In 2003 he became acting field director for Howard Dean’s presidential bid. He was national field director in 2004 for America Coming Together, a now-defunct get-out-the-vote operation that received a $775,000 fine for campaign finance abuses. In 2006 Gaspard was acting political director for SEIU International.
Gaspard also worked for New York’s Working Families Party, which is an appendage of ACORN. Lewis is a co-founder of that party — which endorsed Obama last year — and has close ties to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) who has been most reluctant to have the House Judiciary subcommittee he chairs investigate ACORN.
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Patrick Gaspard’s brother Michael Gaspard works for The Advance Group
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Jerrold Nadler released a press release in which he charges that the amendment which defunds ACORN is unconstitutional.
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, denounced a Republican Amendment adopted by the House of Representatives to deny all federal funds to ACORN as blatantly unconstitutional and a threat to unpopular organizations everywhere. The Republican initiative, entitled the Defund ACORN Act, singles out a specific organization by name for exclusion from participating in any federal program, in direct violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against Bills of Attainder.
“Today’s Republican Amendment is in blatant violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against Bills of Attainder,” said Nadler. “Congress must not be in the business of punishing individual organizations or people without trial, and that’s what this Amendment does. Whatever one may think of an organization, the Constitution’s clear ban on Bills of Attainder is there for the protection of all of our liberties.”
Jerrold Nadler who voted for HR 1586, which imposed up to 90% taxes on the bonuses of AIG employees who were contractually entitled to them. The government literally confiscated the private property of citizens as punishment for AIG’s collapse and subsequent government bailout, and it did so without a trial.
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Before Bertha Lewis ever kissed Mayor Bloomberg or charmed the world with her YouTube hits and appearances on Lou Dobbs; she was a political force to be reckoned with in New York. Bertha’s reach extended beyond ACORN’s traditional constituency of low income and minorities as a small leftist third party began to emerge in New York during the late 90’s.
Over the past several weeks, ACORN has been in the news regarding the startling call by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) for a hearing on ACORN after Heather Heidelbaugh read her testimony into record at a hearing on March 26, 2009. However, “House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) shut down a request by Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) to launch an investigation into ACORN, with Nadler citing not enough “credible evidence” to proceed.”
Nadler has been a fixture in New York politics since 1992, but may have missed some of the “credible evidence that exists in his own state. He has been cross endorsed by the Democrats and the Working Families Party for years, and does attend WFP sponsored events.
While signing onto ACORN letters of support and attending ACORN organized events like the much touted Christmas dinner with foreclosure victims,Nadler seems to only see the bright side of ACORN despite FBI investigations and complaints by its own board members of a criminal conspiracy. Nadler’s relationship with the Working Families Party illustrates this. During the 2007-2008 cycles Nadler gave a total of $41,000 to the WFP, and it was listed as transfer of excess campaign funds.
According to ACORN’s own website, Nadler joined with Charles Rangle in supporting the WFP “Take Back Congress” initiative. Here is an excerpt from the letter:
A review of the relationship between ACORN, the WFP and Nadler may indicate why there seems to be a problem with finding credible evidence to proceed with a hearing. In their most recent union, Bertha Lewis and Al Sharpton were able to get a hearing in Nadler’s committee on Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Even after a group of ACORN board members formed the ACORN 8 to take action against ACORN’s illegal activities and allegations of misconduct across the country; Nadler claims that he can not proceed because the evidence is just not there.
Nadler summed up his position by adding that: “It’s not our business to say ACORN is terrible or ACORN is wonderful. That’s not a congressional job,” Mr. Nadler said. “The evidence - I’ve listened to it - I think most of it is nonsense. If it’s true, it’s a law enforcement matter.” I may not be a mind reader, but from the credible evidence out there, its seems that Nadler has already made up his mind and ACORN is – wonderful.
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The Working Families Party (WFP) is New York’s liveliest and most progressive political party. Formed by a grassroots coalition of community organizations, neighborhood activists, and labor unions, we came together build a society that works for all of us, not just the wealthy and well-connected.
We fight to hold politicians accountable on the issues working- and middle-class families care about, like good jobs, fair taxes, good schools, reliable public transportation, affordable housing, and universal healthcare.
http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/about/
Working Families Party
Party Chairman Sam Williams (co-chair)
Bertha Lewis (co-chair)
Bob Master (co-chair)
New York’s Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a coalition of labor unions, ACORN and other community organizations, members of the now-inactive national New Party, and a variety of public interest groups.
The Working Families Party endorsed Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) in the 2008 presidential election
Local 1199/SEIU (Service Employees International Union). The intensely activist union is known to contribute more than $100,000 a year of the party’s $1.4 million annual budget.
In August 2009 questions were raised about the relationship between the WFP, a non-profit political party, and a for-profit private company called Data and Field Services (DFS).
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The Working Families Party Scam
A complicated web of coordinated activities, shared resources and staff, and quiet money transfers between the Working Families Party, a secretive private company called Data and Field Services and at least six current Council campaigns, as well as Bill de Blasio’s campaign for public advocate, appears to have found several ways around the strict city campaign finance laws. Upwards of a million dollars, and possibly more, are involved, with over $1.7 million in matching funds comprised of taxpayer dollars already disbursed and more are potentially at stake.
There have long been assumptions and rumors of the collaboration between the Working Families Party (WFP) and its favored candidates, but never before has the scope of or intricate processes behind its joint activity been exposed to the degree made possible by an extensive review of public documents and close to 50 interviews with a range of key players conducted by City Hall over the last few days.
Yet another City Hall News article takes the scandal further, showing that Working Families Party may well be violating further election finance laws but either not properly reporting or not properly paying rent on some of their offices:
I don’t think he actually meant “pet-lovers,” I think he meant people who, um, “love” their pets, if you catch the drift.
Mucho, Mucho Info. Should have a post of its own... Great work.
Thank God the White House had vetting procedures. /sarc
I see all the background. Where is the information on the fine? Is this really "breaking" or was the fine levied in the past? Google news shows nothing in the last week.
All these thieving POS scumbags are funded with your money.
MOLON LABE!
Lock and Load
HA!
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