Posted on 09/07/2008 7:16:28 AM PDT by NoobRep
Obama/Ayers Update: Chicago Annenberg Challenge Donor Revealed
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/
As Global Labor readers are well aware the University of Illinois at Chicago denied Stanley Kurtz of National Review access to the official records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the six year long $160 million education reform project led by, among others, Barack Obama and Bill Ayers.
The denial of access to the archives of the CAC was unusual and possibly illegal. It was done after the University, again without any legal justification that I am aware of, contacted someone they said was the "donor" of the records. That "donor" wanted to examine the records prior to their release to the public.
This is highly unusual in light of the fact that the records had been deposited with UIC in 2002 and had been processed by UIC librarians and made ready for access by researchers. Only when Mr. Kurtz, a conservative, requested that he be allowed to see them was the "donor" contacted.
Thanks to the diligent efforts of a 3d year law student in Chicago who filed a Freedom of Information Act request with UIC, Global Labor can reveal tonight that the alleged "donor" who was contacted by UIC and who tried to block Dr. Kurtz' acces to the CAC records was Ken Rolling, former Executive Director of the CAC and a former staff member of the Woods Fund in the 1980s when the Woods Fund provided financial support to the Developing Communities Project which was then headed up by Barack Obama.
Thus, someone with a 20 year history with Senator Obama was tipped off in advance and in secret by a public University about the interest of a political opponent of the Senator in these public records. The CAC was a non profit corporation organized under the laws of the state of Illinois to serve the interests of the people of Illinois. Of course, Ken Rolling now has no legally cognizable interest that I am aware of in the long defunct CAC. Legally, the successor organization to the CAC is the Chicago Public Education Fund, on whose board sits Obama Campaign Finance Chair Penny Pritzker and Obama supporter Susan Crown.
I am reviewing now the documents that were produced as a result of this FOIA request. As soon as I complete my review and assessment I will post the documents here as well as my conclusions.
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Senor Corleone
No question about it - Diamond has been doing yeoman's labor here.
And given that this guy Ken Rolling goes back 20 years or more with Obama, it gives even more credence to Diamond's thesis that Obama has probably known the Ayerses [and Michelle has probably known Bernardine Dohrn] since the mid-1980's:
Who "sent" Obama?
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.html
LLS
Crown Family owns General Dynamics. Defense Contrator. These are Trust fund babies
All power to Steve Diamond and the others researching this. I hope that any record scrubbing by Rolling wasn’t thorough enough and something concrete eventually surfaces. Shouldn’t there be a document list(s) to compare what was in the original collection with current state?
At least the game is afoot.
“PRITZKER FAMILY owns the Hyatt Hotel chain. Maybe they need a boycott. Crown Family owns General Dynamics. Defense Contrator. These are Trust fund babies”
And according to stories in Fortune and Forbes, both Trusts have avoided almost ALL income taxes through a myriad of shell legal organizations and off-shore investments.
I am amazed at all the numerous interlinking ‘community’ projects, educational ‘think tanks,’ groups, non-profits...all leftist, all publicly funded. Or funded by rich leftists.
They seem to flourish, send out pseudopods, re-coalesce, re-combine, send off new offshoots constantly.
Probably the same limited socio-econmic group involved in all of them -— privelidged white leftists.
My concern is that these same donors did not get prior access to the records and documents have disappeared....a la Sandy Burger...
Kurtz has the original doc. list.
Hey, Folks: The real question coming out of this story and revelation should be “$160 MM was donated and spent on this project — what were the goals and what was accomplished?”
This is something to consider when you think about the massive “transfer of wealth” that Barack Obama promises if he and Bin Biden are elected to run an Administration with Reid and Pelosi controlling our Congress.
And before Demo mouthpieces start talking about how only the wealthy will face a fax hike and 95% of taxpayers will experience a CUT in their taxes, please tell us HOW? And is this the same Middle Class Tax-Cut that Bill Clinton promised and never delivered?
“...denial of access to the archives of the CAC was unusual and possibly illegal. It was done after the University, again without any legal justification that I am aware of, contacted someone they said was the “donor” of the records. That “donor” wanted to examine the records prior to their release to the public. “
So am i to understand that the donor has examined (possibly scrubbed) these records now???
Socialists and others with an “Anti-American” agenda would like to have a puppet in the White House.
“privileged white leftists.”
The puppeteers who will be pulling the strings of a NObomba Administration.
There's a law student who can kiss his furture career goodbye with the big-city, liberal, corporate, criminal defense law firms. But with his scrupples, I don't think he was leaning in that direction anyway.
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How do we know that any offensive to Obama document were not purged from the collection?
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