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?
These men are very close and I suspect we'll find out more in the coming days adding further proof they were thick as thieves.
It won’t be made public until days after the election.
This is all so silly. Obama had to get to know Ayers when Ayers wrote Obama’s books. But all this attention on Ayers distracts us from the fact that Obama is going to terrorize us far worse than Ayers did. Ayers was just a warm up for Obama.
But wait, he has lived in the same neigborhood with his wife since they got married.
sheesh, I thought it was just a guy in the neighborhood!
It is revolting how Obama gets by with lying through his teeth at every corner-—and the media has drawn and quartered George Bush on a daily basis on a contrived and despicable “lie” about WMDs.
Are you getting this?
hmmm... curiouser and curiouser...;)
Michael Klonsky, Professor and Director
Small Schools Workshop
University of Illinois at Chicago
115 S. Sangamon Street, #118
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: 312.413.5882 Fax: 312.413.5847
http://www.aypf.org/forumbriefs/2000/fb041400.htm
bookmarked
Send it to Sarah. She’ll use it.
Please send this to Sarah Palin and McCain campaign, because She will get this out. Also McCain has access to people who can verify in about 24 hrs...great job.
Oh and don’t forget Greta at Foxnews...in fact Hannity@foxnews.com too. Greta’s address is on Foxnews.com website.
I just thought of something, in Chicago the biggest NEWSPAPERS (Chicago Tribune??and ??) would have carried news flashes of the CAC and Obama and Ayers in newsworthy donations to big programs...must be in archives of newspaper for 1995-1998 or up to 2000 maybe...did you check that out?
Two more nails in the coffin. Those nails being lies.
These guys just hit two more right on the head.
great find — Obama’s lies are falling apart, if only we could get the Mediascum to notice. From another place on that same webpage, I noticed this in the timeline - I had not seen such a definite assertion before that Ayers and Obama worked together as far back as 1987 on school reform!! Would help to explain how Obama was in line to be selected as the first Chairman of the CAC......
1987
The Chicago School Reform Project is lead by Mayor Richard Daly, Jr and Bill Ayers who are good friends, as were their fathers Richard Daly, Sr (also Mayor of Chicago) and Thomas Ayers (Thomas Ayers served as an advisor to Richard Daley, Sr).
Barack Obama is the leader of the Development Community Project.
The Development Community Project works with Bill Ayers on their School Reform Project
I sent it to Drudge
Demolition Hold List (2008)
#100252187
Date received: 9/5/08
The building in which the office that Bill Ayers and Barack Obama shared exists is scheduled for demolition by the Planning & Development Dept. of the City of Chicago to make room for a new public park.
See http://www.cityofchicago.org/city and then search for “Demolition List 2008”
Address: 115 S. Sangamon
Ward: 2nd
Applicant: Midwest Wrecking
Owner: Chicago Park District
Permit Description: Wreck and remove a 1, 2 and 5-story brick institutional building. Salvage select brick and decorative elements for reuse on site. [as part of city park #542, Sangamon/Adams, to be built on site]
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