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On Dec 9, 11:45 am, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > Gateway > Pundit<http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/it-has-begun-school-supp...> > > http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/it-has-begun-school-supp... > > *It Has Begun… School Supplies Now Distributed With Obama > Logo*<http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/it-has-begun-school-supp...> > > *Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 5:06 AM* > *Jim Hoft* > > *Missouri parents were upset to see “Change We Can Believe In” notebooks and > pencils distributed at the elementary schools. > [image: change missouri] > The distribution company Pencil Wholesale says the design was “a total > accident.” > Yeah, right.* > > *Missouri parents and teachers were outraged after discovering that “Obama > notebooks and pencils” were being distributed at Columbia schools. > **The Columbia Daily > Tribune*<http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/dec/03/supplies-with-obama-l...> > * reported:* > > *Pencils and notebooks resembling President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign ads > have been sold in at least one Columbia school and other public schools, > causing the company that distributes the materials to travel around the > state yanking the supplies out of machines.* > > *“Don’t be mad at us,” said Greg Jones, a sales representative with Pencil > Wholesale. “It was a total accident.”* > > *Pencil Wholesale distributes supplies to six Columbia schools: Parkade > Elementary, Cedar Ridge Elementary, Paxton Keeley Elementary, Mill Creek > Elementary, Smithton Middle School and Hickman High School, said Linda > Quinley, the district’s chief financial officer.* > > *At Mill Creek, at least one pencil and a notebook with designs similar to > Obama campaign advertisements have been sold out of a supply machine. Two > families have complained about the politically tinged materials.* > > *Three Missouri schools have contacted Jones since the beginning of the > school year asking that the materials be removed, and Mill Creek Principal > Mary Sue Gibson this week said she also planned to call Pencil Wholesale. * > > *“I just don’t want to get into that political arena at all,” she said.* > > *The bound three-ring notebook bears a photo of literal change — pennies, > quarters, dimes and nickels stacked into piles. Above the photo, white text > reads “CHANGE” over a navy background.* > > *Below the photo, “WE CAN BELIEVE IN” sits above a logo similar to Obama’s > campaign image — three red stripes separated by white stripes in front of a > white circle with a blue background arching over the circle.* > > *The supplies were designed by the art department of Harcourt Pencil Co., > based in Milroy, Ind., Jones said. * > > *“The art department was trying to be cutesy,” he said.* > > ** -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
