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After Walter Annenberg’s foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-’90s, William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago. The purpose of his application was to secure funds to “raise political consciousness” in Chicago’s public schools. After he won the grant, Ayers’s group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money. Between 1995 and 1999, Obama distributed the $50 million and raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it. In doing so, he was following Ayers’s admonition to grant the funds to “external” organizations, like American Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to pair with schools and conduct programs to radicalize the students and politicize them...

55 posted on 10/08/2008 9:17:50 AM PDT by nutmeg (Imagine Commander-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama... appointing US Supreme Court justices)
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To: nutmeg; Liz
William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago. The purpose of his application was to secure funds to “raise political consciousness” in Chicago’s public schools. After he won the grant, Ayers’s group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money.

ACORN - and more...

56 posted on 10/08/2008 9:48:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (Derivative traders HAVE MADE MORE MONEY THAN EXISTS - Bailouts & rate cuts to ZERO won't work.)
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Thanks for the ping!


57 posted on 10/08/2008 10:07:15 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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