Andrew Breitbart is teasing a major story to appear on Monday and he's hinted that it will come from "left field". Patterico thinks it will involve the National Endowment for the Arts (patterico.com/2009/09/19/breitbart-promises-new-bombshell-from-left-field) but a stronger hint comes from blogger/satirist "IowaHawk" in comments at minx.cc/?post=292565.

The last direct links (without identifying her) to a picture (link) of Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. She was mentioned in Breitbart's penultimate scoop about the NEA asking artists to promote Obama's policies. Later he says it has nothing to do with "personal life" scandals and then - after she's identified - he says that he "f[***]ed up, royally" and says: Now shut alla your mouths. By tomorrow PM things will be clearer. What exactly the last means isn't clear; he might have provided a picture of the wrong person, or he might have realized that he shouldn't have linked to her photo.

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UPDATE 2: This is indeed about their previous NEA article; the Breitbart story is here. It's certainly not the big scoop I was hoping for, but then again they've got audio of administration official Buffy Wicks (background information below) saying to a group of artists "We’re going to come at you with some specific asks here" and then Yosi Sergant, former Communications Director for the NEA listing a couple of those "asks".

UPDATE 3: Another participant on the call was Winner & Associates; more on others later.
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Could Wicks be a red herring? Is this another story about ACORN, perhaps detailing a close connection to the Obama administration or the mainstream media covering for them? Could it be about something entirely different? Others have mentioned names such as Patrick Gaspard (Obama's Director of the Office of Political Affairs; a la Karl Rove; formerly with the Service Employees International Union) and Ari Emanuel (brother of Rahm Emanuel and a Hollywood player). For unconfirmed background information on the latter, see "Ari (Ariel) Emanuel: The Obama/Media Connection (Movies,Arianna Huffington and The Producer of “An Inconvenient Truth”..Al Gore’s film)" (link).

As for Wicks, her biography is at [1]

Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Wicks has a long history in grassroots organizing and civic engagement. Most recently she was the Director of the Renew America Together effort, the call to service issued by then President-elect Obama. She also served on the Obama for America campaign in a variety of roles, including California Field Director and Missouri State Director, and helped develop the national grassroots field strategy. She has also worked in the labor movement, fighting for better health care and wages for disenfranchised workers. She is originally from California and graduated with a double major in Political Science and History from the University of Washington.

Her campaign blog is at my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/buffywickscafield and more posts are at my.barackobama.com/page/community/tag/Buffy+Wicks. Campaign videos featuring her are at blip.tv/file/361210 and here; in the last she "[i]ntroduces USAservice.org". In December 2008 she took part in a Google corporate panel discussion about open government (link). She was featured in January 2008's "Support for OBAMA is PERSONAL" (link) and other videos concerning "Camp Obama".

She was formerly political director for the "Wake up WalMart" campaign (wakeupwalmart.com, link) from the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW). Before that, she was a field organizer for the Howard Dean campaign (link), and in 2000 she worked for Rep. Bob Filner. She's engaged [2] to Michael Kadish, an apparently lower-level official in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; that angle probably isn't involved.

As for a possible ACORN connection, from this:

Obama's campaign also created 400 "neighborhood teams," each responsible for coordinating efforts in eight to 12 precincts that could cover anywhere from a few city blocks to an entire county, said Obama's Missouri director, Buffy Wicks. Each team is focused on about 3,700 Obama supporters. And each team has volunteer directors for local canvassing, phone banks, data management and volunteer recruitment, she said.

"It's different than what other campaigns have done in the past," Wicks said. "These teams together write their own field plan and know what their vote goal is — how many votes they need to get out in their area.

"We're giving average folks the keys to the campaign, literally," Wicks said.

And, in March 2008, she was deputy field director in for the Obama campaign in Texas (dippolitics.dipdive.com/blog/541). From this March 2008 report:

Also, April Horner, captain of Precinct 108 in Galveston, complained to party officials that many people participated in that caucus without furnishing proper identification. Another participant in the caucus wrote that almost all of those without proper ID were Obama supporters.

Lloyd Criss, chairman of the Galveston County party, this week said that in his precinct, sign-in sheets were taken to Obama’s Galveston headquarters, where names were added to them. However, Criss said, the apparent additions didn’t seem to affect the delegate count.

“Every rule you can think of was violated at these caucuses,” he said.

And, of course, bear in mind that at this point in time this is all speculation, but this post will be updated when the scoop becomes public.

UPDATE: OK, this definitely involves Wicks since they're naming her as involved in their scoop here. Of the NEA call (linked above), they say:

So what did happen on that call? Was the NEA coordinating with the White House to push their agenda on a group of artists eager for and reliant upon the NEA for grants, or is the NEA telling the truth that this call “was not a means to promote any legislative agenda”? Tomorrow at noon ET, explosive new information will answer that question and raise many others.

[1] whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/
President-Obama-Launches-Office-of-Public-Engagement/
[2] politico.com/click/stories/0909/wicks_met_kadish_at_camp_obama.html