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School founder contradicts governor
07/24/2008 12:02:15
CHICAGO - The founder of a school that got $1 million in state assistance is contradicting claims by the Blagojevich administration that the school got the money in a bureaucratic mistake. Loop Lab School founder Elmira Mayes told the Chicago Tribune that Blagojevich personally promised her the money. Mayes said the governor made the promise when he visited Pilgrim Baptist Church and talked with her as she was sifting through debris from her burned-out school. The school rented space from the church. Blagojevich has said unnamed officials in his administration mishandled his pledge to help the church, a landmark badly damaged in the January 2006 fire. Yesterday Blagojevich spokesman Lucio Guerrero told the Tribune the governor didn't tell Mayes her school was getting money. Guerrero said she may have misunderstood the Blagojevich.
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