In those sad days after a losing campaign, we bought a bunch of office furniture from a democratic campaign for governor. We stashed those desks and chairs away- when you've got 4000 square feet and only a handful of housemates you've got plenty of storage space. Prowling the local garage sales, we added to our stash of campaign stuff. When the Obama campaign needed furniture and stuff for the Iowa offices last summer, we hauled down two loads of campaign "stuff".
I just took a ride through northern Iowa to see what had become of those campaign offices. If I found any of the stuff we'd hauled down earlier left and unused, I'd have come back with the truck to haul the stuff to another campaign office or store it away again until needed. I found all three offices I checked empty with for rent signs back in their windows, with none of the campaign stuff we'd hauled there in sight.
These past weeks in South Dakota and Montana, Obama supporters are again reinventing the wheel- scrounging for office furniture, supplies, etc.. After tuesday It'll all be thrown away and the campaign offices abandoned, then the process of renting and equiping campaign offices will be repeated all over again for the november general election.
There has to be a better way...
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