Patrick Gaspard intentionally keeps a low profile, preferring to work behind the scenes. It makes him effective.
Michael Gaspard
Patrick Gaspards 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. Lewiss contacts list confirms Michael Gaspards 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 Gaspards office number, home number, and cell phone number. Patricks 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.
Gaspards 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 Lewiss contacts list as Patrick Gaspard.
Bertha Lewis also has Michael Gaspards office number and cell phone. In addition, as noted above, Michael Gaspard works for ACORNs registered lobbying organization and with ACORNs national spokesman.
Other Administration Connections
A cursory view of Ms. Lewiss 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 ACORNs 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. Lewiss contacts list still has her listed with John Edwards campaign, but also has Ms. Jean-Pierres personal and presumably still working personal email address, etc. Ms. Jean-Pierre left there to work for Congressman Anthony Weiner, then became Barack Obamas regional political director.. She is now the White House liaison for the Department of Labor. Thats a handy contact.
The web of connections from Ms. Lewiss 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 ACORNs lobbying operation.
With the White House trying to distance itself from ACORN, Ms. Lewiss contacts there might make it more difficult. She has clear ties to Patrick and Michael Gaspard, the Presidents fixer and the man who gets ACORN projects and money.
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I saw him down there two weeks ago. I’ll go down tomorrow to take pics.
I thought they disbanded ACORN and decreed that they would receive no more money. I’m schocked, just shocked, I tell you, that they have re-formed under a different name and are now receiving Federal (and probably church) funds again! Isn’t that odd how these are the same people who scream “separation of church and state” whenever the church tries to exert anything resembling moral instruction, but they are very happy to be on the receiving end of church funding?