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Posted on 10/18/2008 3:27:47 PM PDT by Jack Bull
Crossing Paths Daily: Obama and Ayers Shared an Office (Update: For Three Years)
John on October 16, 2008
It’s nice to be the guy getting tips for once instead of the guy sending them. Yesterday I got two great tips from Morgen, a reader who had found my earlier posts digging into the Obama Ayers connection. Both tips appear to check out and the second one is, I think, big news.
First, the smaller one…
This Chicago Annenberg Challenge website from 2002 shows the total amount of funds given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. The amount is not the $175K I had reported earlier. According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. Adding that amount to the money given by the Joyce Foundation and Woods Fund during Obama’s tenure brings the grand total to $1,968,718. Just shy of two million dollars! That’s a lot of scratch, to put it bluntly. And don’t forget, this doesn’t count the 3/4 million that went to John Ayers during the same time period.
Now here’s the second and bigger break, again big hat tip to Morgen for his work on this…
Bill Ayers and Barack Obama shared an office. Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop, the one Obama directed all that money too is located at 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607 [Note the link is to a year 2000 version of their website]. Here’s a screengrab from the website’s footer:
In 1998, the address for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama presumably worked, was 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinios 60607. Here’s a copy of their 1998 tax return with that address:
The CAC moved to a new address sometime in 1999 or 2000, but the shared office probably persisted for at least three years. I can’t say for sure because 1998 is the earliest tax information available online. [Correction: I can say for sure that they shared the same building for the years 1995-1998. Here is a 1995 progress report from the CAC with the same address.]
Now remember, the NY Times described Obama and Ayers as having “crossed paths.” Ben LaBolt, Obama’s spokesman said:
Mr. LaBolt said the men first met in 1995 through the education project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and have encountered each other occasionally in public life or in the neighborhood.
I’m going to suggest that two guys working in the same building for a period of years probably crossed paths pretty often. For all we know, they had lunch together on a daily basis. Maybe, in an effort at conservation, they were even carpool buddies. After all, Ayers is a guy from Obama’s neighborhood.
Would someone at the Times like to contact Mr. LaBolt for a follow-up?
Update: Made the correction above. Also, Obama was a state senator from 1996-2004. However, he still likely spent some significant time at the Sangamon street address, especially in 1995. But even after his election he would presumably be working on his CAC duties at the Sangamon office, not from some other location.
According to this letter dated 1995, Obama’s office was on the 3rd floor:
And according to this memo dated 1996, Small Schools Workshop was also on the 3rd floor:
Do you think maybe Obama and Bill Ayers ran into each other once in a while?
Ayers and Obama shared an office - ping.
Michael Klonsky (born 1943) is an American educator and political activist, a leader of the New Communist Movement.
Klonsky's father, Robert Klonsky, had been arrested as a communist in the 1950s and convicted of violating the Smith Act.[1] In the late 1960s Michael Klonsky was the national secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society,[2] which he joined as a student at San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge).[3] He was one of five S.D.S. members arrested on May 12, 1969, when prank phone calls sent police and firefighters to the S.D.S. offices in Chicago.[2] In the 1970s he headed the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist),[4] in which role he was one of the first westerners allowed to visit the People's Republic of China.[4][5]
More recently Klonsky has been a professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago;[6] his academic work focused on small school size as a solution to the problems of inner city schools. He is now the director of the Small Schools Workshop, a school outreach program associated with UIC.[7][8]
References "9 Philadelphians Convicted as Reds; Leaders Found Guilty of Plot to Overthrow Government – Trial Ran for 71 Days", New York Times, August 14, 1954.
a b Janson, Donald (May 13, 1969), "5 in S.D.S. Seized by Chicago Police; Scuffle Occurs as Officers Answer False Alarm", New York Times.
Moreland, Pamela (April 22, 1988), "Legacy of Turmoil: CSUN Looks Back at Years of Activism at Former Valley State College", Los Angeles Times.
a b "Westerners Meet Chairman Hua", New York Times, August 26, 1977.
Mathews, Jay (September 7, 1977), "China Rolls Out Red Carpet for Tiny Pro-Peking Groups", Los Angeles Times.
Bruce, Allison L. (July 28, 2003), "Small schools within large schools help students focus", Charleston Post and Courier.
Biography of Klonsky at SSW web site. Retrieved August 19, 2008. UIC Partnerships in Education. Retrieved August 19, 2008.
I am certain that we will soon see a media horde there to rival the scrums in front of Joe-the-Plumber’s house or the zillions of reporters crawling all over Alaska and Arizona. After all, how could the MSM pass up such a hot lead on ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL AND IDEOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS of Barack Obama’s working life?
Holy Smoke! Thanks, WestCoastGal.
Ayers was not ‘just a guy in the neighborhood.’
Ping.
Interesting! Here’s more of the same...
OBAMA: “I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. “
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109068/posts
We were discussing why Obama went to Chicago the other day. The discussion didn’t go far when it was suggested he went for school. According to this statement,that isn’t so.
WHY DID BARAK OBAMA GO TO CHICAGO? WHO SENT HIM? WHO WAS WAITING FOR HIM?
His Hawaiian mentor FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS was previously active in Chicago. It isn’t difficult to believe Obama went to Chicago to join Ayers because of Davis’s teachings and associations.
What Bill Ayers saw in Barack Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107986/post
I assume it would be news if McCain shared an office with Timothy McVeigh for three years....or three minutes.
In 2006 Ayers traveled to Caracas, Venezuela to deliver a speech at the World Educational Forum with "comrade" Hugo Chavez in attendance. I recommend you read Ayers' speech , which is replete with Marxist rhetoric and attacks on the capitalist system.
McCain must link Obama to these Marxist/Socialist associations and show how Obama's world view has been shaped by them. Obama's desire to "spread the wealth around" is just one example of how Obama wants to change fundamentally this country. ACORN is one of the instruments and Obama has been deeply involved with this organization.
This is the bigger message, i.e., Obama is an extremist and radical. Ayers is just one of his many radical associations. They all have one thing in common: They hate the United States of America and the capitalist system.
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Sean is a Lurker? I should have known that LOL
Bump for truth...
That’s his real screen name here, but I would have no idea if he still logs on. Just hoping.
Bump to follow.
No postings that I could find either.
BTTT
I don’t recall ever seeing a post FROM him. IIRC, Tony Snow made a few replies when he was a Fox News guy. His screen name was Tony Snow.
Bill Ayers, “over throwing the Capitalist System, and put in something more humane”
The MSM has vetted Joe the Plumber more than they have a guy who may be our next President.
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