Fire Sale on All McCain-Palin Campaign Equipment

[rdowns]

Link (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/12/fire_sale_on_all_mccain-palin.html)


Wish I hadn't spent all my cash buying the Joe the Plumber book for all my friends and family. :p

Run, don't walk, to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va., for an amazing Blowout Sale! Computers, blackberries, televisions, desks, you name it - everything must go. Hurry while the offer lasts!...


Among the hot deals listed for sale on the price sheet:
- A Dell Latitude D620 laptop for $417.00.
- A Dell Latitude D820 laptop for $570.00.
- Brother multifunction printer for $189.00.
- RIM Blackberry 8700c for $30.00.
- Folding chairs for $3.60 each.
- A 55-cup steel coffee urn for $77.00.
- A power strip for $1.
- Ethernet cables for $1 a pound.
There's plenty of other stuff, too, including flatscreen TVs, black microfiber sofa, lamps, end tables and a mission coffee table from Target (at the blue light special rate of $60).

[iShater]

Blue Light specials are at K-Mart not, Target. :rolleyes:

[rdowns]

No wonder they lost. Stinkin' Dell laptops. The Obama team all had Apple goodness for their computing needs. :D

[iShater]

No wonder they lost. Stinkin' Dell laptops. The Obama team all had Apple goodness for their computing needs. :D

For real? that would be too funny.

[themoonisdown09]

Oh... oh... I want the power strip!!!

[fxstb2002]

No wonder they lost. Stinkin' Dell laptops. The Obama team all had Apple goodness for their computing needs. :D

I bought an Airport Extreme for $100 from someone who put on an Obama fundraiser.

[atszyman]

There's plenty of other stuff, too, including flatscreen TVs, black microfiber sofa, lamps, end tables and a mission coffee table from Target (at the blue light special rate of $60).

Shows that they really are out of touch. Blue light specials are from K-Mart.

[mactastic]

Oops... (http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=reporter-finds-private-campaign-inf-2008-12-15)
We learned during the presidential campaign that the BlackBerry was the “miracle that John McCain helped create,” according to an aide to the failed GOP candidate. And what a miracle it’s turned out to be for an enterprising reporter who poked around at a garage sale the campaign held in Arlington, Virginia, last week, turning up two BlackBerries with more than 300 contacts still loaded on them.

Tisha Thompson, an investigative journalist at WDCA-TV, the Washington, D.C., Fox News affiliate, reports that she paid $20 a pop for the devices, which contained phone numbers of McCain donors and supporters as well as e-mails, calendars and photos.

“It makes me quite uncomfortable,” former Republican Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, whose number was on one of the BlackBerries, tells the station. “It’s a matter of principle. I gave that information to McCain headquarters and to have it sold is bothersome.”

Gilmore’s number was on a BlackBerry belonging to a “high-level” campaign fundraiser whom the station doesn’t identify. WDCA says it’s getting e-mails from other people who also supposedly bought devices containing private info, including one who said the stuff on his was “mind-blowing.”

The campaign told WDCA: “It was an unfortunate staff error and procedures are being put in place to ensure all information is secure."

[IJ Reilly]

The campaign told WDCA: “It was an unfortunate staff error and procedures are being put in place to ensure all information is secure."

Summary executions?

[mkrishnan]

Summary executions?

It's amusing considering how easy it is to scrub a Blackberry properly... plus who uses a BB without a passcode?

[IJ Reilly]

It's amusing considering how easy it is to scrub a Blackberry properly... plus who uses a BB without a passcode?

It's interesting to see what happens to an organization when nobody is left to care about how things are done. Not that this campaign cared much to start.

[mkrishnan]

It's interesting to see what happens to an organization when nobody is left to care about how things are done. Not that this campaign cared much to start.

Yeah...

Ahem, on the bright side, I bet if they gave all that stuff to Rod Blagojevich, they could get a Senate seat for it. :)

[IJ Reilly]

Yeah...

Ahem, on the bright side, I bet if they gave all that stuff to Rod Blagojevich, they could get a Senate seat for it. :)

Well I don't know about that, but I'll bet he'd at least return their phone calls.