The Obama team has been knocked for bringing "Chicago style" politics to Washington -- but if you ask us, things down there are starting to smell suspiciously like . . . Albany.
A terrifying thought.
Politico reported last week that one of the president's top political advisers, Patrick Gaspard, took home nearly $40,000 last year from one of the country's most powerful labor unions -- without telling a soul.
You'd think that's the sort of trick that only New York state legislators, who regularly engage in off-the-books moonlighting for special interests, would be brazen enough to try.
Yet Gaspard has the ear of the president of the United States.
The cash was part of a severance package from health-care-union giant SEIU 1199, for whom Gaspard previously worked as political director.
Though required by law to disclose such income, he failed to do so.
The White House now says it's fixing the error, calling the update a "small administrative change."
Forgive us if we're skeptical of such protestations of innocence.
After all, having it made public last year that a top aide was on the payroll of a health-care union couldn't have helped the push for ObamaCare.
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