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Another Obama-Ayers-Klonsky-Lenz nexisOctober 8, 2008 by Brenda J. ElliottThe Obama, Ayers and Klonsky families must truly believe that Americans are the stupidest people on earth. How else to explain the following?The October 1999 issue of the Catalyst lists among the members of the Planning Committee for the Community Renewal Society’s 10th Anniversary Prom: * Michelle Obama, assistant dean at the University of Chicago. * John Ayers, executive director of Leadership for Quality Education. * Susan Klonsky, a consultant with the Small Schools Workshop.John Ayers is the brother of unrepentant domestic terrorist and former leader of the Weather Underground Bill Ayers.Susan Klonsky (right) is the wife of Mike Klonsky, both former members of the radical leftist group Students for a Democratic Society. In 1968, she worked in the SDS National Office. Mike Klonsky is Director of the Small Schools Workshop, a school reform organization. Susan Klonsky is Director of Development with the Small Schools Workshop. Mike Klonsky and Bill Ayers co-chair the Workshop. In April 2008, RBO first wrote about Mike Klonsky. In 1968, he was SDS national chairman and a “demonstration organizerâ€. Klonsky “would go on in post-SDS years to form the October League (Marxist-Leninist) and Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), part of the new communist movement that emerged in the 1970s.†Klonsky was named by Ayers in the 1990s to head the Small Schools Workshop (see his blog). In 1996, Klonsky, like William Ayers, was a consultant for Mayor Richard M. Daley’s “agenda for public schools.†Until recently, Klonsky maintained a community blog subtitled Freedom Teachers at MyBarackObama.com. It has met the fate of many other Obama communities — it has been webscrubbed.
Barack Obama and Bill Ayers worked together on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Obama chaired the board that oversaw funding decisions and directed over one million dollars worth of grands to the Klonsky directed organization., CAC gave SSW a series of grants totaling $1,056,162. But that’s not all, the Joyce Foundation and the Woods Fund of Chicago, (Obama also sat on both boards), gave SSW another $912,556.As the Co-creator of the SSW, Ayers office was right next to Klonsky’s on the same floor as the future President. On the same floor and sharing money, does anybody truly believe that the three amigos never had any interaction?Nothing has changed, at least with Ayers and Klonsky. In a 2001, the Maoist was interviewed for the Chicago Tribune. There he said he and Ayers were still pursuing the same radical agendas they had advocated in their younger days. “We’ve learned how to work within the system,†Klonsky said. “The fight to save and improve public education embodies all the issues we were fighting for back then.â€The President’s relationship with Klonsky continued well into his campaign for President. Klonsky was even given page on Barack Obama’s campaign site discussing education and social justice.That was until the blog Global Labor and Politics started writing about the Obama/Klonsky relationship that was when Klonsky’s blog was mysteriously removed from the site (but thankfully some of them are available through webarchives).That’s where the trail drops off. All mentions of Klonsky have been scrubbed from Obama’s website, and there are no public sources which report that the relationship is ongoing.
