The “Third Crasher” Revealed
11. Dec, 2009 
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Carlos Allen, CEO of Hush Society Magazine
There are rumors floating around Washington that Tareq and Michaele Salahi may not have been alone in crashing the State Dinner. It seems that Carlos Allen, CEO of Hush Society Magazine may have also crashed President and Mrs. Obama’s first State Dinner, too. As Carol Joynt reported today on her blog, which quoted my contributor’s post on AskMissA.com, but never mentioned my website, Carlos wasn’t on the State Dinner invitation list. According to some of his Facebook friends, Carlos allegedly posted some photos of himself at the State Dinner on Facebook, which were taken down when the Salahi Gate-Crashing story broke.
Attorney Paul W. Gardner with former client, Michaele Salahi
Washington really is a small town, and strangely, one of my AskMissA.com contributors met Carlos while volunteering over Thanksgiving at the “Hush Mansion”. She blogged about her volunteer experience on AskMissA.com, writing that Carlos “had just returned from California from the VMAs and had attended the State Dinner the night before”. Carlos thanked my contributor for her article and said it was great, so clearly he didn’t have any problem with what she had written. However, I’m still a bit confused since the VMAs are traditionally held on the 2nd Thursday in September. Maybe it was the AMAs? Sources tell me that Carlos now denies having attended and denies stating that he attended.
Did Carlos attend the State Dinner uninvited? Or did he just lie about attending to impress people? Interestingly, Carlos is friends on Facebook with the Salahi’s former attorney Paul W. Gardner, who was at the Hush Mansion volunteering with my AskMissA.com contributor, and who alledgedly got the Salahi’s into the Congressional Black Caucus Dinner. Did Paul Gardner help get Carlos and the Salahi’s into the State Dinner? I have no idea, but this is apparently the buzz. The Secret Service should go through photos taken at the event and see what’s going on here!
- Miss A
Andrea Rodgers has been in Washington for over a decade, and is well-known for giving back to the local community. She has co-founded three major fundraisers - Blondes vs. Brunettes in 2005, The Courage Cup where she serves as President in 2006, and Fashion for Paws in 2007. In September 2008, Andrea launched two businesses — AskMissA.com, and Socialite Marketing, a full-service boutique marketing firm that provides businesses and brands with social media, public relations, marketing, and event planning services. She attended boarding school at Salem Academy, and graduated from Wake Forest University with a double major in Economics and Politics. Rodgers was recently hand picked by Vogue magazine to be a founding member of The Vogue 100, an organization "of influential decision makers and opinion leaders known for their distinctive taste in fashion and culture, [and who] personify the rising influence of women over the past several decades."
The picture from the Google search of Carlos Allen attributed to askmissa.com is not a picture of Paul Gardner and Carlos. See Paul Garnder at: http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-W-Gardner/698798960