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BYRON YORK: AmeriCorps Scandal Figure Invited To AmeriCorps Conference. ?Kevin Johnson is a former?

By Glenn Reynolds

BYRON YORK: AmeriCorps Scandal Figure Invited To AmeriCorps Conference. “Kevin Johnson is a former NBA star, the mayor of Sacramento, California, and a friend and political ally of Barack and Michelle Obama. He also misused hundreds of thousands of federal dollars at a non-profit educational organization he founded called St. HOPE.”

Related: Obama team honors Walpin-gate transgressor. “Only in the Obama administration would a public official sanctioned for a form of malfeasance be honored as a speaker by the same organization that sanctioned him. It helps, of course, when he is a self-proclaimed Friend of the First Couple. It also doesn’t hurt that the administration already found it politically convenient to fire the inspector general, Gerald Walpin, who blew the whistle on his misdeeds.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 10, 2010 (boomark / email).