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Crossing Paths Daily: Obama and Ayers Shared an Office (Update: For Three Years)
Verum Serum ^ | 10/16/2008 | John Sexton

Posted on 10/18/2008 11:13:38 PM PDT by mojito

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 screen grab from the website’s footer:

In 1998, the address for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama presumably worked, was 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 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?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: annenbergchallenge; ayers; cac; chicago; obama; obamarecord
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To: mojito
Whatever it is, if it exposes our Messiah as a liar, we at MSNB, CBS, NYT, WaPo, CNN, ABC, AP will have nothing to do with it.

I think it's just about time to change the phrase from "main stream media" to "government media" (somewhat like the designation "government schools") to indicate that the institution being discussed has become part of the Leftist shadow government.

21 posted on 10/19/2008 7:56:37 PM PDT by an amused spectator (I am Joe, too - I'm talkin' to you, VBM: The Volkischer Beobachter Media)
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To: Godsgirl

Sorry to be so pessimistic but the whole lot of us know the disgusting truth about him and so many out there just refuse to acknowledge it. I only hope there is such a thing as ‘the right time’ and he is nailed to the wall. Unfortunately, he has lied his way out of so much at this point it just turns my stomach.


22 posted on 10/20/2008 10:18:14 PM PDT by oldteen (my new lipstick color...Perfectly Palin)
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To: mojito

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23 posted on 03/01/2012 11:53:47 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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