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==Relationship with Barack Obama==
==Relationship with Barack Obama==
Ayers an [[Barack Obama]] worked together at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), from 1995-1999, an [[organisation]] that funneled money to [[ACORN]]. From 1999 to 2002, Obama joined Ayers again in a paid nine-member board of the Woods Fund of Chicago. the announcement of Obama's candidacy for higher office was made in the home of Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn in 1995. In 2001, Ayers supported and contributed $200 to Obama's state Senate campaign<ref>[http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/contributor.phtml?d=330121189]</ref>. Barack Obama was asked about the relationship in an April 2008 Presidential debate by moderator George Stephanopoulos:
Ayers and [[Barack Obama]] worked together at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), from 1995-1999, an [[organisation]] that funneled money to [[ACORN]]. On his curriculum vitae, Ayers identifies himself as the co-founder and grant writer of the Annenberg Challenge Grant of $49,200,000 and the one who obtained this and other grants for "the support of the Small Schools Workshop and/or the Chicago forum for School Change at the University of Illinois at Chicago..."
Obama joined Ayers again in a paid nine-member board of the Woods Fund of Chicago. Ayers also says that he obtained grants from the Chicago-based MacArthur foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Woods Fund, on whose board he sat with [[Barack Obama]] from 1999 to 2002.
The announcement of Obama's candidacy for higher office was made in the home of Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn in 1995.
In 2001, Ayers supported and contributed $200 to Obama's state Senate campaign<ref>[http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/contributor.phtml?d=330121189]</ref>.
Obama was asked about the relationship in an April 2008 Presidential debate by moderator [[George Stephanopoulos]]:
:''"Can you explain that relationship for the voters, and explain to Democrats why it won't be a problem?"''
:''"Can you explain that relationship for the voters, and explain to Democrats why it won't be a problem?"''