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Obama and Ayers Shared an Office for Three Years [with Klonsky]
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| 2008-10-19
| Scott Ragan & John Sexton
Posted on 10/19/2008 8:22:41 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
Its 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 Obamas direct supervision was $1,056,162. Adding that amount to the money given by the Joyce Foundation and Woods Fund during Obamas tenure brings the grand total to $1,968,718. Just shy of two million dollars! Thats a lot of scratch, to put it bluntly. And dont forget, this doesnt count the 3/4 million that went to John Ayers during the same time period.
Now heres 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]. Heres a screen grab from the websites footer:
In 1998, the address for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama presumably worked, was 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607. Heres 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 cant 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, Obamas 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.
Im 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 Obamas 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, Obamas 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?
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To: Mojave
Perhaps some of them are operating like that and no doubt some are operating out of ‘kindred loyalties’.....however, I truly believe some of them are being bought...OUTRIGHT!
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posted on
10/19/2008 10:35:27 AM PDT
by
penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
To: XR7
I believe now that Bill Ayers was part of a group who were SERIOUSLY discussing the “reEducation” of Millions of Americans, and if they refused to relinquish Capitalism, the ELIMINATION of those people. I have no reason to believe that he did NOT pass his beliefs to his protege Barak Obama. Obama is using Ayers Tactics and has been for years.
42
posted on
10/19/2008 10:39:00 AM PDT
by
Danae
(Obama = Trickle up Poverty.)
To: goodnesswins
Some of Obamas FRIENDS.....PASS this AROUND - Look closely at Penny Pritzker
.... Pritzker, Penny
Finance Chairperson of Obamas presidential campaign - helped develop the complicated investment bundling of subprime securities at the heart of the meltdown. Board Chair of failed Superior Bank.
Penny Pritzker is also vice chair of the Chicago Public Education Fund, the successor organization to the
Chicago Annenberg Challenge. According to this PDF file, pg 5,
Chicago Annenburg Challenge,
Pritzker's family foundation provided $100,000 in matching funds to the Chicago Annenburg Challenge before it closed shop.
From
Wikipedia, ..."On Wednesday July 2, 2008, Ms. Pritzker and her husband hosted a $28,500 per plate fundraiser for Mr. Obama's campaign in Chicago with Warren Buffet and his wife, and Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett. "
43
posted on
10/19/2008 10:44:52 AM PDT
by
Girlene
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Folks, THIS is why Obama did NOT want to come clean with who and what he is, and what his real belief systems are, and where he comes from.
Ignorance is what these bastards count on, OUR ignorance. They can NOT subvert the educated electorate.
The press is compliant in this effort to keep Americans ignorant.
This is utterly abhorrent. Not to mention scaring the crap out of me.
44
posted on
10/19/2008 10:55:17 AM PDT
by
Danae
(Obama = Trickle up Poverty.)
To: Chaguito
Chaguito,
Those who have not learned from history are doomed to repetirla. Unfortunately....
45
posted on
10/19/2008 11:20:28 AM PDT
by
SumProVita
("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
46
posted on
10/19/2008 11:34:37 AM PDT
by
TEXOKIE
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
47
posted on
10/19/2008 11:58:34 AM PDT
by
defal33
(Michigan: Stuck on Stupid)
To: Williams
I wanted tro throw something at the TV listening to Powell down play the Ayers connection. Once a true patriot, now a sell out jerk.
48
posted on
10/19/2008 12:11:37 PM PDT
by
RDTF
(BO smells and eventually people do what's necessary to avoid it)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
From what I'm gathering, the Chicago Annenburg Challenge was conceived by Bill Ayers in late 1993. Ayers formed a group, Chicago School Reform Collaberative, to prepare and submit the grant application. The national Annenburg Challenge awarded a $49 Million grant to the "Collaborative" and the Chicago Annenburg Challenge was formed. Bill Ayers cochaired the "Collaborative".
The Collaborative incorporated the Chicago Annenburg Challenge(CAC) in spring of 1995 and was housed at the University of Chicago, rent-free. Barack Obama was recruited as the first Chairman of the Board and President of the CAC and held that position until 1999. Obama remained a member of the board until CAC was dissolved in 2002.
Among the first recipients of a CAC grant of $175,000 (and later hundreds of thousands more) was the SSW, Small Schools Workshop which was founded by Bill Ayers in 1992 and directed by Michael Kronsky. It was also housed in the same building as the CAC.
This is just a piece of OBama/Ayers connection probably. If I boil it down to something I understand, it goes like this:
Bill Ayers comes up with the idea of the Chicago Annenburg Challenge. He helps propose the grant, gets the funding going, and voila, Obama becomes the first Chairman of the Board and President of Ayer's brain child. Ayers is just a "guy in his neighborhood"? Right. After Obama becomes the Chairman, voila again! Ayers receives funding from the CAC through his Small Schools Workshop program. By the way, they're all in the same building (er, neighborhood, I mean). What a cozy relationship.
There's a lot more "there", there.
49
posted on
10/19/2008 12:19:42 PM PDT
by
Girlene
To: goodnesswins
Thanks for the list. I’ve been compiling one of my own...of the ones accountable for getting us into our present economic situation. Kinda surprising how the 2 overlap in many ways...
50
posted on
10/19/2008 12:35:59 PM PDT
by
TEXOKIE
To: Danae
I have no reason to believe that he did NOT pass his beliefs to his protege Barak Obama...
51
posted on
10/19/2008 1:09:10 PM PDT
by
XR7
To: Williams
Hey, that’s the SECOND time Colin’s intelligence was wrong. LOL. Boy, he’s lost any credibility. Hahaha.
52
posted on
10/19/2008 1:09:27 PM PDT
by
rom
(Keep Senator Government from Spreading YOUR Wealth! McCain/Palin '08!)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
who has the FR press list.
this needs to go to Greta, Hannity, Rush etc ASAP.
53
posted on
10/19/2008 2:07:16 PM PDT
by
freespirited
( We have met the enemy, and he is the MSM.)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Good work, KayEyeDoubleDee -
54
posted on
10/19/2008 2:09:14 PM PDT
by
mtntop3
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Evidence: Destroyed
http://chicago.everyblock.com/building-permits/by-date/2008/9/5/1397655/
Permit issued for wrecking/demolition
Building permit detailsLocation 115 S. Sangamon St.
Issue date September 5, 2008
Application number 100252187
Work type Wrecking/demolition
A total or partial removal of an existing structure.
Description WRECK AND REMOVE A 1, 2 & 5 STORY BRICK COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
Estimated value $1
Added to EveryBlock on October 7, 2008.
To: Savagemom
Why is the estimated value only $1?
Who owns the building?
57
posted on
10/19/2008 3:20:56 PM PDT
by
KayEyeDoubleDee
(const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
To: Savagemom
58
posted on
10/19/2008 3:27:42 PM PDT
by
KayEyeDoubleDee
(const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
To: RDTF
I never did like Him, spotted Him as a user and climber a looooog time ago.
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
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