Has close ties to Van Jones

Sarah Palin sent out a simple message via Twitter yesterday:

"Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing"

Now, according to Politico, a top aide to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has responded with a vicious attack on Palin, also via Twitter.

Andrea Batista Schlesinger Tweeted:

"@SarahPalinUSA whose hearts? Racist hearts?"

Hours later Schlesinger sent out an apology via Twitter - "I regretted curt response." And a Bloomberg spokesman scrambled to put out a statement that "Andrea was speaking only for herself."

Schlesinger is a frequent contributor to the far-left Huffington Post and the communist Nation.

She is also on the Board of the Applied Research Center which is based in Oakland, California. According to an investigative piece by NewZeal.blogspot on Obama's New York fundraising ties, the Board "is closely aligned with Van Jones' Ella Baker Human Rights Center."