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DOHRN SURRENDERS, FACES COURT
Boston Globe - Wednesday, December 3, 1980
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/03/obama200803
One of the clearest-eyed grandees of the Chicago establishment, Newton Minow has long seen something special in Obama. Minow played key roles in the two presidential campaigns of Adlai E. Stevenson, then went on to become John F. Kennedy’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, famously pronouncing television programming “a vast wasteland” in 1961, a few months before Obama was born. At 81, sitting in his law office at Sidley Austin, in the Loop, above a stretch of street christened Honorary Newton N. Minow Way, Minow is talking about the young man his daughter Martha, a professor at Harvard Law School, recommended for a summer associate’s job two decades ago. At Minow’s firm Obama fell in love with a young lawyer, Michelle Robinson, who would become his wife.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/chicago-law/newton-minow/
Thursday, June 11, 2009
New dean at Harvard Law
Harvard Law School named a new dean Thursday, and she has a Chicago connection. She’s the daughter of Newton Minow, the former chair of the Federal Communications Commission, who serves as senior counsel at Sidley Austin.
Martha Minow will become dean on July 1, replacing Elena Kagan, who became U.S. solicitor general earlier this year.
http://stephen-diamond.com/?p=393
Sidley had been long time outside counsel to Commonwealth Edison. The senior Sidley partner who was Comm Ed’s key outside counsel, Howard Trienens, was a member of the board of trustees of Northwestern alongside Tom Ayers (and Sidley partner Newton Minow, too). It turns out, Bernardine Dohrn worked at Sidley also. She was hired there in the late 80s, because of the intervention of her father-in-law Tom Ayers, even though she was (and is) not a member of any state bar.
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http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/obamas-ties-to-ayers-back-to-high-school/
THE AYERS/OBAMA TIMELINE: (Version 2.0; a work in progress; dates are approximate)
1981-1983[William Ayers and Barack Obama meet at Columbia?]
1987 William Ayers links up with Barack Obama in Chicago
1988 Ayers solicits Khalid Al-Mansour to raise money for Obama’s Harvard law School education
1989 Tom Ayers and William Ayers get Obama a summer job at Sidley & Austin (where he meets Michelle Obama); Ayers’ wife Bernadine Dohrn also worked at Sidley at about the same time as Barack and Michelle.
1993 Ayers places Obama on Woods Foundation
1995 Ayers makes Obama Chairman of Annenberg Challenge
1995 Ayers hosts a coffee klatch for Obama’s political debut (Obama falsely claims this is when he met Ayers)
2007-2008 The structure of Obama’s presidential campaign increasingly comes to resemble an Ayers-designed national “community organizer matrix” straight out of Maoist theory. This is not merely a presidential “campaign.” Obama’s organization is the first installment of an ongoing movement being paid for with tax-exempt contributions to his campaign, approaching half a billion dollars.
2008 Obama In response to ABC News, Obama tells a national TV audience he was “six years old” when Ayers bombed federal buildings, and they are only casual neighborhood acquaintances. A lie.
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While at Sidley & Austin (1989-1991), Michelle would meet the terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn, who helped bomb something like 25 targets, including the Capitol and the Pentagon.
Dohrn was working at the firm as a result of the recommendation of the CEO of Chicago’s power company, Tom Ayers. His son, the unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers, ran the organization that put up the money to bring Obama to Chicago in the first place.
Ayers’ father, Thomas Ayers, was CEO of Commonwealth Edison as well as a trustee of Tribune Co. and chairman of the board of Northwestern University.
Dohrn was hired by . . .”the powerhouse firm of Sidley Austin.” The very same law firm where Barack Obama was hired as a summer associate after his first year at Harvard Law School. Where he met Michelle, his future wife. And just how did that coincidence happen?
Trienens headed Sidley Austin when the firm hired Dohrn in 1984. She had never practiced law and had been out of law school for 17 years.
When I asked Trienens if he had hired Dohrn, he replied: “Yes.”
Wasn’t that a bit of nepotism, considering his relationship to her father-in-law? A lot of lawyers would love a first job with such a prestigious firm.
“We often hire friends,” replied Trienens, 84.
Dohrn had not practiced law and been out of law school for 17 years while she was oh so busy doing, uh, other things,
Dohrn wasn’t licensed to practice law. Though she passed the bar exam, the ethics committee turned her down because of her rap sheet. That limited the type of work she could do at Sidley Austin, which she left after a few years.
“Dohrn didn’t get a license because she’s stubborn,” Trienens said. “She wouldn’t say she’s sorry.”
http://www.theobamafile.com/
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2831779/posts?page=42#42
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/obama-makes-rare-visit-to-chicago-home/
The president pointed out old friends in the crowd, including people who helped him get his political start and the couple responsible for him meeting Michelle.”
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Eden Martin (Sidley)??
Tom Cole (Sidley)??
John Rogers??
Allison Davis (Rezko)??
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WHITE HOUSE TRANSCRIPT:
And then all of you are here. (Laughter.) And I’m looking around, I see folks who first hired me for — as a summer associate. Between Eden and Tom, they can take — and John — they can take responsibility for me meeting Michelle. (Applause.) If it had not been for them, it would not have happened.
I’ve got Allison and folks who stole me from Sidley, so you can blame them if — (laughter) — but I’ve got folks here who watched our kids grow up, who we played basketball together, we worked out together, we saw each other at various functions and events. And friends who, if it weren’t for you, could have never gone on this extraordinary journey that I’ve gone on.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/12/remarks-president-campaign-event
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106603/posts
When the 1988 Reform Act was passed a group called Leadership for Quality Education (LQE) was formed, according to Shipps, by the elite business lobby that was in part behind the new reforms, to train the newly elected local school council members...
Interestingly, one LSC member was John Ayers, son of Tom and brother of Bill. In 1993, John was made head of the LQE - which, by then, according to Shipps, was caught in the middle of the battle emerging to re-centralize control of the schools in the hands of the mayor.
I can only speculate, but it is possible that Tom Ayers also introduced Obama to Sidley. That might have happened if Obama had met up with Bill and Tom and John Ayers prior to attending law school when Obama’s DCP group was one of the only black Chicago organizations supporting the reform act passed in 1988...
Thus, we have one possible answer to the question: Who “sent” Obama? It was the Ayers family, including Tom, John, Bill and Bernardine Dohrn...
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wiki:
Early career in Chicago
After four years living in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer. He worked for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago’s far South Side.[43][45][46] During his three years as the DCP’s director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants’ rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[47] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[48] In the summer of 1988, he traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks then to Kenya for five weeks where he met many of his paternal relatives for the first time.[49]
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School reform contacts
Chicago Sun-Times - Tuesday, September 5, 1989
Dozens of organizations are offering information and training on Chicago school reform.
The Board of Education is answering questions over its hotline, 1-800-244-ABCS. The City of Chicago’s Speakers Bureau will help find speakers for groups. For information, call 744-6671.
The office of the deputy mayor for education, Lourdes Monteagudo (744-4000), will refer residents to groups offering training sessions on reform legislation, budgeting, curriculum and other school-improvement issues.
The city also is distributing - through grocery stores - brochures on local school council elections.
Groups that offer training include:
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Developing Communities Project 785-6900
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This list was compiled by the Citizens Schools Committee and Leadership for Quality Education , the business community’s school reform group.
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Agencies get help to help others
Chicago Sun-Times - Tuesday, December 29, 1987
Author: Larry Finley
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The refugee-aid association is one of 22 area groups that received grants recently from the Woods Charitable Fund.
Other Chicago grants included:
Centers for New Horizons, $30,000; Clarence Darrow Community Center, $25,000; Dearborn Homes Resident Management, $10,000; Developing Communities Project , $25,000; Eighteenth Street Development Corp., $12,000; Gamaliel Foundation, $30,000; Interfaith Organizing Project, $17,500.
Also Logan Square Neighborhood Association, $20,000; Marcy Newberry Association, $15,000; People for Community Recovery, $7,500; South Suburban Action Conference, $20,000; United Block Club Council, $5,000, Open Lands, $20,000; Woodstock Institute, $25,000.
Also Human Action Community Organization, $10,000; Midwest Center for Labor Research, $25,000; University of Illinois at Chicago, $8,468; Legal Assistance Foundation, $80,000; Public Welfare Coalition, $40,000; Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, $25,000; Information Technology Resource Center, $30,000.
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