It could happen to anyone. It just plain slipped Patrick Gaspard’s mind. You know, kind of like paying taxes slipped the minds of Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle.
Politico.com has details of the most transparent, but absent-minded administration in history:
President Barack Obama’s political director failed to disclose that he was slated to receive a nearly $40,000 payout from a large labor union while he was working in the White House.
Patrick Gaspard, who served as the political director for the Service Employees International Union local 1199, received $37,071.46 in “carried over leave and vacation” from the union in 2009, but he did not disclose the agreement to receive the payment on his financial disclosure forms filed with the White House.
In a section on his financial disclosure where agreements or arrangements for payment by a former employer must be disclosed, Gaspard checked a box indicating that he had nothing to report.
We must be getting old and the Alzheimer’s must be kicking in, because we can’t remember the last time we forgot receiving $40,000 in severance pay.
Source: Politico.com
This post was last modified on June 30, 2010
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Chicago Politics for Dummies.
more left wing blue collar trash like barry, the clintons, byrd-lefties who "get theirs" while they can. It is always the same with lefty politicans. They steal from the honest blue collar workers, usually by way of a union(s) and climb over bodies to the "top". Then, they don't practice what they have preached all along. I wonder how many $5,000 suits this guy has in his closet? Maybe 8!?
Well, in his defense, Union pay-outs could be considered socialist bribes, and who reports bribes on their taxes? Seriously though, even if the Resident is completely incompetent you would think he would surround himself with at least a hand full of competent people to make his administration look good. But that's not the case... Obongo has surrounded himself with all his shady cronies and staffed his cabinet with all the forethought of a high school homecoming king selecting his court. From Emanuel, Gates, and Holder at the beginning of his stay in the oval office up to his recent selection of that troll Kagan for Supreme court, every single one of the are nincompoop turds.
That's what happens when someone drinks the socialist kool-aid.
Obviously Bush's fault.
Whoopsy daisy!!! Schucky damn.
How'd that happen?
Maybe, just maybe, it's an honest mistake.
If so, he should go for being incompetent. If he's too stupid to properly fill out a government form, he's too stupid to help govern the rest of us.
If not, he should go for being a liar.
Must be Turbo Tax again.