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To: KLP who wrote (325554)	9/22/2009 2:17:39 PM
From: mph	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793928

It's the same alleged "mistake" made with the worksheets for the school speech. Obama and his henchpersons are hellbent on recruitment, even if it means forced recruitment or inducement with taxpayer funds.

To: KLP who wrote (325554)	9/25/2009 6:18:29 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793928

NEA communications director resigns September 24, 2009 politico.com The National Endowment for the Arts said Thursday that its communications director, Yosi Sergant, has resigned. "This afternoon Yosi Sergant submitted his resignation from the National Endowment for the Arts. His resignation has been accepted and is effective immediately," said a spokeswoman, Sally Gifford, in a statement. Sergant, who helped make artist Shepard Fairey's "Hope" image ubiquitous as an organizer of Obama campaign support from artists, had seemed to mix the NEA's work -- essentially non-partisan politics -- with the administration's legislative agenda on a conference call reported on by Andrew Breitbart's new conservative site, Big Government. "I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service," Sergant told artists on the call, which he reportedly invited some of them to attend. "My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities utilities and bring them to the table," he said. Texas Senator John Cornyn, among critics, complained that the call politicized subjected the agency to "political manipulation, though the NEA initially defended the call. NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman later said the call "inappropriate" and that Sergant had acted "unilaterally" in helping to organize it. "This call was completely unrelated to NEA’s grantmaking, which is highly regarded for its independence and integrity," Landesman said. The White House has sought to downplay the story, which has gotten little mainstream media attention, despite heavy coverage on the right. But it did issue new guidelines aimed at preventing politics from mixing with agency business.