Buffy Wicks, White House Insider, Tries to Politicize the NEA
Buffy Wicks currently serves as the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Recently, a tape has come to light showing Wicks and Yosi Sergant, a former Communications Director of the National Endowment for the Arts, in what seems to show the two attempting to encourage artists receiving taxpayer money to create art around specific Obama initiatives.
Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Buffy Wicks.
Specific phrases used by Wicks include "I’m actually in the White House and working towards furthering this agenda, this very aggressive agenda.” Sargant, meanwhile, says explicitly: "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."
Perhaps most damning is the words of of Michael Skolnick, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons: “And so I’m hoping that through this group, and the goal of all this, and the goal of this phone call, is through this group we can create a stronger community amongst ourselves to get involved in things we’re passionate about as we did during the campaign. But to continue to get involved in those things, to support some of the President’s initiatives, but also to do things that we are passionate about and to push the President and push his administration."
No word from the Obama White House on the matter as of yet. We imagine that will change soon.
Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Buffy Wicks.Specific phrases used by Wicks include "I’m actually in the White House and working towards furthering this agenda, this very aggressive agenda.” Sargant, meanwhile, says explicitly: "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."
Perhaps most damning is the words of of Michael Skolnick, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons: “And so I’m hoping that through this group, and the goal of all this, and the goal of this phone call, is through this group we can create a stronger community amongst ourselves to get involved in things we’re passionate about as we did during the campaign. But to continue to get involved in those things, to support some of the President’s initiatives, but also to do things that we are passionate about and to push the President and push his administration."
No word from the Obama White House on the matter as of yet. We imagine that will change soon.
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