[COUNTrecount]

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

[Dick Vomer]

just the Brown Shirts. First they're coming for the "millionaire" bankers homes. What will the state do?

Nothing. Because union police departments aren't going to bust union thugs.

THAT's why government employees should never unionize. Working for the government should be the option of last resort for those that can't find jobs in the private sector. Now it's seen as a "career".

[manc]

within 30 mins this will be news alerts, and all over the wires.

yea right

[NoLibZone]

Thanks for posting a screen grab of the ad for Occupy Wall Street protestors.

That ad is 100% real.

If you know how Craig’s List works you’d know that any ad that is deemed as fake or spam gets flagged by users and removed by Craig’s List admins.

That ad has been up since 9-26!

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/gov/2618821815.html

[GOPJ]

Is ACORN a communist front organization?

Hey, hey, hey - trillions in debt and WE can’t pay...

Hey, hey, hey 9.1 percent unemployment - Obama called that day ...

Hey, hey, hey, Dems gave it away... 9.1 percent unemployment, dems gave it away... YOU must pay.

Hey, hey, hey I’m here because I’m being paid...

[Graewoulf]

Ah, yes! The old “frame the debate” ploy! Where are you Maxwell Smart? Chaos is in the Building! Get on your shoe phone and alert the Chief!

Oops! I forgot! The Chief IS the leader of Chaos!

[marstegreg]

Grassroots? Spontaneous? I wonder how much of the “solar energy” laundered money is being used to pay for this?

[GraceG]

We should infiltrate them and start talking about this evil billionaire who has collapsed whole economies around the world, and who has funded all sorts of shennanigans, then tell them that his name is George Soros, it would be hillarious for the rabble in the street to turn on their master they don’t know.

[maggief]

Patrick Gaspard intentionally keeps a low profile, preferring to work behind the scenes. It makes him effective.
Michael Gaspard

Patrick Gaspard’s brother Michael Gaspard works for The Advance Group. Michael apparently keeps a lower profile than his brother. He does not appear on lobbyist disclosures for The Advance Group in the State of New York. Nonetheless, he works there. Ms. Lewis’s contacts list confirms Michael Gaspard’s employment there.
Tying Bertha Lewis to the Gaspard Brothers

The level of detail Bertha Lewis has for contacting Patrick Gaspard suggests a closeness between the two.

Ms. Lewis has Patrick Gaspard’s office number, home number, and cell phone number. Patrick’s information still contains the 212 area code, which suggests it has not been updated since he moved to Washington, D.C. However, only 131 of the 1,894 contacts, or 7% of the total, list home phone numbers, let alone home, office, and cell phone numbers. For perspective, only 31 of the 1,849 contacts have home, office, cell phone, and business email addresses listed. Patrick Gaspard makes that list.

Gaspard’s contact information also contains his private personal email address making him among the most detailed contacts on the list. Only Wade Rathke, the founder of ACORN, and a handful of others have as much personal information in Lewis’s contacts list as Patrick Gaspard.

Bertha Lewis also has Michael Gaspard’s office number and cell phone. In addition, as noted above, Michael Gaspard works for ACORN’s registered lobbying organization and with ACORN’s national spokesman.
Other Administration Connections

A cursory view of Ms. Lewis’s contacts lists shows a couple of other obvious administration contacts too.

It will come as no surprise that Ms. Lewis keeps up with Shaun Donovan. Mr. Donovan is now the Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. Before that, Mr. Donovan was the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). In New York City, he worked on affordable housing initiatives right up ACORN’s alley. His contact information has not been updated since he left the HPD.

Then there is Karine Jean-Pierre. She originally worked for John Edwards. In fact, Ms. Lewis’s contacts list still has her listed with John Edwards’ campaign, but also has Ms. Jean-Pierre’s personal and presumably still working personal email address, etc. Ms. Jean-Pierre left there to work for Congressman Anthony Weiner, then became Barack Obama’s regional political director.. She is now the White House liaison for the Department of Labor. That’s a handy contact.

The web of connections from Ms. Lewis’s contacts list goes straight into the White House and out the other door into the Departments of Labor and Housing and Urban Development, circling back to ACORN’s lobbying operation.

With the White House trying to distance itself from ACORN, Ms. Lewis’s contacts there might make it more difficult. She has clear ties to Patrick and Michael Gaspard, the President’s fixer and the man who gets ACORN projects and money.

http://www.resistnet.com/profiles/blogs/remember-this-name-gaspard

[DustyMoment]

Shocker. Obama’s Top Political Advisor Directly Linked to Occupy Wall Street Protests

Gee, I'm so shocked and surprised.

So, what's for lunch . . . . ?

[Buckeye McFrog]

that same ad was running in my college campus newspaper 30 years ago

[Danae]

Is there any logical reason why these people deserve to retain their American Citizenship? Seriously. Revoke and deport.

[Lancey Howard]

“shocker”, LOL.

[dalebert]

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL THE LAME STREAM PRESS ABOUT THIS???

[dalebert]

ping