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		<title>ACORN Operative Patrick Gaspard Received Colleague at White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Vadum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[White House political director Patrick Gaspard met with ACORN spokesman and lobbyist Scott Levenson, a former co-worker, at the White House the Obama administration disclosed Friday.
Levenson&#8217;s inclusion in the newly released list of visitors to the Obama White House makes the president&#8217;s claim he&#8217;s clueless about his former employer ACORN &#8212; and its election fraud [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>White House political director Patrick Gaspard met with ACORN spokesman and lobbyist Scott Levenson, a former co-worker, at the White House the Obama administration disclosed Friday.</p>
<p><span>Levenson&#8217;s inclusion in the newly released list of visitors to the Obama White House makes the president&#8217;s claim he&#8217;s clueless about his former employer ACORN &#8212; and its election fraud trials and tribulations &#8212; especially difficult to believe. That&#8217;s because Gaspard is President Obama&#8217;s right hand man. Some describe him as the new Karl Rove.</span></p>
<p><span>The purpose of the visit by Levenson (pictured below) <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records">who met with Gaspard in March</a> was </span><span>not disclosed.</span></p>
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<p><span>The relentlessly combative Levenson, who is also a <a href="http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/pdfform.aspx?id=300029336" target="_blank">registered lobbyist</a> for New York ACORN, was thrown out of Glenn Beck&#8217;s TV studio May 6 for suggesting during a commercial break that the TV host was racist for daring to challenge ACORN. Levenson&#8217;s been helping to coordinate ACORN&#8217;s public disinformation strategy which relies heavily on <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/20/bertha-lies">lies</a> and <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2009/10/29/acorns-campaign-to-defox-ameri">misdirection</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span>Few would care about </span><span>Levenson&#8217;s</span> <span>visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that President Obama claims &#8212; unconvincingly &#8212; to be out of the loop regarding ACORN.</span></p>
<p><span>After the undercover prostitution sting videos first surfaced on BigGovernment.com and the &#8220;Glenn Beck Program&#8221; in September <span>the American public began to realize that ACORN is <a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pubs.html?id=663">a vast criminal conspiracy</a> whose reach extends to the highest levels of the U.S. government.</span></span></p>
<p><span>Obama said at that time he was<span> </span><a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/09/22/obamas-sudden-acorn-amnesia/" target="_blank"><span>barely aware</span></a><span> </span>of ACORN&#8217;s problems. &#8220;</span><span>This is not the biggest issue facing the country. It&#8217;s not something I&#8217;m paying a lot of attention to,&#8221; he told ABC&#8217;s George Stephanopoulos.</span></p>
<p><span>Nobody believed the president &#8212; except for certain members of the mainstream media. Evidently Anne E. Kornblut and Jason Horowitz of the <em><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110102339_pf.html">Washington Post</a></em> are also incurious members of the MSM. Their puff piece profile of Gaspard today suggests they have no interest in probing Gaspard&#8217;s ties to ACORN. </span></p>
<p><span><span>Gaspard, who came to the White House after serving as executive vice president of SEIU Local 1199, has ties to ACORN that go way back.</span></span></p>
<p><span>Gaspard also worked for <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2009/09/29/the-politico-gets-played-by-ac">New York&#8217;s Working Families Party</a>, which is part of the ACORN network. ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis is a co-founder of that party &#8212; which endorsed Obama last year &#8212; and has close ties to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) who has been most reluctant to have the House Judiciary subcommittee he chairs investigate ACORN. </span><span>Nadler is <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/26/nadlers-acron-ethics">even providing advice</a> to ACORN through its lawyer Arthur Z. Schwartz but he refuses to address this huge conflict of interest. The congressman&#8217;s press office won&#8217;t return my calls.</span></p>
<p><span>My article is available in full at the <em><a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/11/02/acorn-at-the-white-house">American Spectator</a></em>.</span></p>
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