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To: LindyBill who wrote (249515)	5/11/2008 1:05:44 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

..she hasn't done a lick of work for the Hospital since Obama announced, but is still drawing $6,095 a week. Michelle Obama cuts way back on U of C hours By Greg Hinz May 14, 2007 (Crain’s) — Michelle Obama, the wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, has cut back sharply on hours at her lucrative post with the University of Chicago Hospitals, and may not be there at all in the near future if the senator’s campaign continues to do well. Spokespeople for both Ms. Obama and the university said Monday that on May 1 she cut back to working 20% of her normal load as vice-president of communications and external affairs. Both also denied a report in the Washington Post that Ms. Obama is “about to be unemployed,” although they conceded that could change. “As of now, she works here and we want her to stay here,” the university spokesman said. He added, “We all presume that if the campaign continues to go as well as it has, she will have to take a leave of absence.” The spokeswoman for Ms. Obama said she first went part-time on Feb. 1 and now “is planning on maintaining 20% as long as possible.” Asked how long that might be, the spokeswoman said, “I don’t know that. She’s planning on maintaining 20% at this time.” The spokespeople said that, even when on the campaign trail on behalf of her husband, Ms. Obama remains in touch with work via cell phone and BlackBerry, and occasionally works from home. Ms. Obama was paid $273, 618 by U of C last year, according to the 2006 income return filed by her and her husband. Her spokesman said Ms. Obama's base salary actually is $212,180, and that she now is being paid 20% of the base. Her post has created some political controversy. Ms. Obama got the new job and a big raise from a lesser position shortly after her husband joined the Senate in 2006. Ms. Obama also will remain on the baord of Westchester-based TreeHouse, Inc., where she has made tens of thousands of dollars a year in salary and stock options annually, the spokeswoman for Ms. Obama said. The firm's largest customer is Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., who Mr. Obama and others have criticized for alleged anti-worker policies. The Washington Post says it stands by its story that Ms. Obama will leave her U of C Hospitals job soon.

To: LindyBill who wrote (249515)	5/11/2008 1:22:22 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793955

When McCain's campaign makes an issue of it He won't. He expects the talkers and bloggers to do this stuff and he gets to pretend he's above it.