Notes 429residents of the South Side of Chicago. It is simply a way for the University of Chicago Medical Center to
save money and reduce costs by serving fewer poor people without health insurance.” “I’ve had some
complaints from my constituents,” said Alderman Toni Preckwinkle, a former teacher who represents
Chicago’s 4th Ward and who will be an Obama delegate at the Democratic National Convention. “It’s hard to
know whether this is motivated by the interests of the patients or by the financial interests of the medical
center.”... Jeffrey Schaider, chairman of emergency medicine at nearby John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook
County, also is skeptical. Schaider said his emergency room welcomes all patients, whether or not their
maladies ultimately prove urgent. Lower-income workers also often find it difficult to visit clinics, which
have limited hours, he said.’ (Joe Stephens, “Obama Camp Has Many Ties to Wife’s Employer,” Washington
Post, August 22, 2008)
(^25) Washington Post, August 12, 2007.
(^26) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html
(^27) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html
(^28) http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmEyN2RkNzcwYzgyZDY2MDBiY2U5MjJlZGMwNDM2ODg=
(^29) Concerning Michelle’s extensive foundation connections, Stanley Kurtz of the National Review writes:
‘Michelle... had been executive director of Public Allies Chicago since 1991. Public Allies Chicago currently
partners with the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University, led by noted
community organizers John McKnight and Jody Kretzman. Michelle and Barack both have close links to
Public Allies, to the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, to McKnight and to Kretzman. The
Asset-Based Community Development Institute and its leaders are closely tied to the Gamaliel Foundation.
Barack himself worked directly with the co-founder and Executive Director of the Gamaliel Foundation,
Gregory Galluzzo.... the Gamaliel Foundation is guided by an extreme, anti-American ideology, much like
Revered Wright’s. In other words, Both Michelle and Barack Obama were part of a tightly knit network of
Gamaliel Foundation organizers, and the guiding ideology of Gamaliel is deeply radical and anti-American.’
(Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online, “The Corner,” August 22, 2008) As for Barky, he was a founding
member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before Michelle became the founding
executive director of Public Allies Chicago in early 1993.... Obama also served on the board of directors of
the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and
the Lugenia Burns Hope Center, which dealt with 1,100 people thrown off welfare. He also served on the
board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for
Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center. The Lugenia Burns Hope Center, another
povertician operation, specialized in moving former welfare recipients to low-wage jobs after Aid to Mothers
With Dependent Children, a part of the FDR Social Security Act of 1935, had been abolished by Clinton. The
Lugenia Burns is a foundation-funded operation evidently tasked with preventing a broad-based political
rebellion against the abolition of Social Security; the Lugenia Burns has received grants from the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation and other foundations controlled by the ruling elite.
(^30) http://www.opednews.com/author/author58.html
(^31) ‘On October 1, 2006, Mayor Richard Daley appointed Martin Nesbitt as Chairperson of the Chicago
Housing Authority succeeding Sharon Gist Gilliam. Gist Gilliam assumed the role of interim CEO upon the
resignation of Terry Peterson on Sept. 30, 2006. Mr. Nesbitt was appointed as a Commissioner of the
Authority on July 9, 2003. He served as Vice Chairperson of the Board since January 17, 2006. Mr. Nesbitt is
president of PRG Parking Management, also known as the Parking Spot, and manages the strategic and
operating services of the off-airport parking facilities. Mr. Nesbitt is also vice president of the Pritzker Realty
Group, L.P. where he procures new real estate investment opportunities, retail investments and developments
for the Pritzker Group.’ http://www.thecha.org/aboutus/martin_nesbitt.html
(^32) Ben Smith, “Ax On Ayers,” Politico, February 26, 2008.
(^33) http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=3FC289D8-3048-5C12-009AD5180C22FF0B
(^34) http://kimallen.sheepdogdesign.net/cinnamon/2007/06/thomas-g-ayers-1915-2007.html