ABC news reports:

Obama Campaign Donates Campaign Office Leftovers to Schools

As Offices Close, Nearby Schools Benefit From Campaign Merchandise “Tens of thousands of dollars of resources have been put into schools across the United States in less than four days,” said Valarie Swanson, marketing director for iloveschools.com. “The Obama campaign was specific that they wanted all their resources to go to schools.”

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Obama’s Pittsburgh campaign office donated to her school district at least five flatbed trucks of office supplies, including 12 Dell computers, multiple 17-inch LCD monitors and three printers. Much of the equipment was brand new, given to the schools unopened in boxes. The computers’ files were deleted by the Obama campaign to pass along the machines in data-less condition.

Details like this stress what I was impressed with from the beginning about the Obama campaign. They are highly competent superbly managed and thorough and they stick to their message. If the presidency is handled as competently as the campaign was and, indeed, the transition is being handled I have high hopes for the future.

To be fair, the McCain campaign has donated much of it’s campaign stuff as well. They have been restricted by rules that come with public financing, however.

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