Patrick Gaspard in 2004 Served As National Field Director (ACT) America Coming Together, a group fined $775,000

Obama’s White House political affairs director, Patrick Gaspard who was recently revealed to be ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis’s political director in New York, prior to joining the White House has been revealed as having an even darker history. According to Gateway Pundit, Patrick Gaspard Served As National Field Director For 527 Organization America Coming Together or ACT in 2004, a group that was later fined $775,000 in civil penalties by the federal government.

It turns out that ACT hired dozens of felons some convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary – to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in the state of Missouri, Ohio, anf Florida. This should at least make Kevin Jennings proud i’m sure. ACT employed felons as voter canvassers in major metropolitan areas in Missouri, Florida, Ohio and possibly 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.

Still more from Free Republic:

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.

I wonder how will Gaspard and Jennings know each other?

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October 4, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics


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