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Rhee: 'No obligation of any kind' to funders
Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee told the District's Office of Campaign Finance on Friday that she gained nothing financially from the private foundations that are underwriting part of the new teachers contract, nor did she have anything to do with a provision allowing donors to reconsider their support if DCPS leadership changed hands.
Her signed declaration comes in response to an Office of Campaign Finance investigation, launched after a complaint filed by Robert V. Brannum, president of the D.C. Federation of Civic Associations. He is a vehement critic of Rhee and Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and a supporter of Fenty's Democratic primary opponent, D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray. Brannum charged that Rhee contrived to protect her job by accepting the leadership clause as a condition of the private funding -- constituting a direct personal financial benefit.
"I did not obtain any financial gain from the funders' reservation of the right to reconsider their commitments if there is a material change in