On Saturday, John McCain held a teleconference with Clintonites-who-are-damned-if-they’ll-vote-for-Obama followed by a private meeting with 75 of those Clintonites.

Turns out one of the key organizers of the event was Paula Abeles, who’s shown up a second time in the 15-minutes-of-fame line. She emailed Politico to complain that she wasn’t mentioned in their original post, although “I initiated the teleconference with McCain on Saturday and was solely responsible for the guest list.”

Her previous brush with fame was for proudly espousing and defending what most people would consider racism:

Abeles first made the news in 2003, when she and her husband, then-Monticello Association President Nat Abeles, led the fight to keep members of the Hemings family — descendants of Jefferson slave and, some historians believe, mistress Sally Hemmings — out of a gathering of the Monticello Association, which is made up of lineal descendants of the third president.

Abeles drew national attention for her role in an episode of online espionage.

The AP reported in May of 2003:
The wife of a Thomas Jefferson family association official said Friday that she masqueraded as a 67-year-old black woman on an Internet chat room in a bid to keep descendants of a reputed Jefferson mistress out of this weekend’s family reunion.

“It might have been somewhat unethical,” said Paulie Abeles of Washington, D.C., who participated for eight months in the Yahoo! message board created for relatives of Jefferson slave Sally Hemings.

“It might have been childish, but I really think I was working in the best interest of the majority of the family members to make the reunion a calm and civilized gathering,” she said.

I guess McCain is more calm and civilized than Obama.