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POPSObama's Radical "Go To" Man Moves to the DNC
Patrick Gaspard got his start in politics in the mid 1980s, organizing demonstrations in New York City for "social justice" in Haiti. He got his first taste of campaign work in the 1988 presidential campaign of Rev. Jesse Jackson - who, like Obama, was a product of the Chicago socialist/communist machine. Patrick Gaspard went on to David Dinkins’ first New York mayoral race, as an intern in Dinkins' office and then to City Hall, when Dinkins won the New York Mayoralty. Dinkins was at the time, a member of the largest Marxist organization in the U.S., Democratic Socialists of America. In 1997, outgoing Manhattan borough president Ruth Messinger, a Communist Party USA front activist and also a member of Democratic Socialists of America, enlisted Gaspard for her doomed mayoral campaign against Rudy Giuliani. In 1999, Lopez loaned Gaspard out to help Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union to organize a march in protest of the police shooting death of ...
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