Figures. Chicago Teacher’s Union President Linked to Former Communist Party Chief and Barack Obama
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Mike Klonsky, an Obama supporter and former associate of the radicals who formed the terrorist group the Weatherman, received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.
Klonsky belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was best friends with friends William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who later became famous for their acts of terrorism.
Later he started a blog on the Obama website:
Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party chairman and Obama supporter Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing.
And get this… Klonsky reportedly shared offices on the same floor with Barack Obama and Bill Ayers at the University of Illinois, Chicago campus.
So it should come as no surprise that Mike Klonsky, the former Communist Party leader, is a huge supporter of Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Chicago teachers went on strike today for the first time in 25 years despite the fact that the average teacher salary in Chicago is $74,839 a year.
There's more.
Obama, Ayers and Klonsky all officed in the same building when Obama was "chairing" the Annenberg Challenge.
Ayers was director of the foundation. His office was directly across the hall from Obama's. Klonsky, styled as an "education consultant", officed down one flight.
About 90% of the money that Obama distributed -- under the direct guidance of Ayers -- went down that flight of stairs and into Klonsky's schemes.
Which accomplished nothing. NOTHING! Except, perhaps, enrich the local Communist cell...