Update: O‘Keefe is on pre-trial release, not parole, as he told Yeas & Nays last week. “I’ve called it a parole officer, but she’s actually from ‘pre-trial services,'” O’Keefe said. His officer is from the Pretrial Services Agency District of New Jersey.
Thanks to the courts, he’s stuck in Jersey. But conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe is desperately trying to claw his way to the Conservative Political Action Conference.
O’Keefe told Yeas & Nays he’s in the process of petitioning his parole officer to let him cross state lines to make the big event Thursday where he will be awarded the “XPAC Annual Award for Impact” for cracking ACORN with his pimp suit and, of course, his most recent attempt at high jinks in the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.
“We’re having this e-mail exchange right now, actually,” O’Keefe said about his correspondence with his parole officer.
O’Keefe isn’t on complete lockdown — he did spend Presidents Day on the ski slopes of New Jersey. But for a trip to the District for CPAC to join his cohort Hannah Giles, he’ll have to beg.
“But hopefully I should be able to make it down to D.C. on Thursday,” he said.
If he can’t make an appearance, he plans to do a prerecorded or satellite interview with Town Hall’s Kevin McCullough that will appear Friday.
But even if he does make an appearance, don’t expect him to be raging at the concerts, comedy shows or bar parties.
“That’s just not my scene,” O’Keefe said.
