His friends, who nearly included everyone who met him, are asked, in lieu of expenditures on flowers and the like, to make a healthy and significant contribution to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama or, if they insist, the charity of their choice.http://www.legacy.com/dailypro... This was reported here at http://raisingkaine.com/showDi...
Well, Tuesday night, at 7:30 -- after the polls had closed and Barack Obama had been declared the winner of Virginia's primary, Barack called Betty Van Yahres to express his condolences.
Half an hour after three networks called Virginia in his column, Obama placed a telephone call at about 7:30 p.m. to Charlottesville resident Betty Van Yahres to express his condolences over the death Friday of her husband, former Del. Mitchell Van Yahres.http://www.dailyprogress.com/s..."I almost fell over," Van Yahres said an hour after she took Obama's call. "He made my day. I've been sad."
Obama had read that the obituary for the former Charlottesville mayor and 24-year delegate had included a sentence asking friends "to make a healthy and significant contribution to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama."
That was a classy touch.
Also posted at Democratic Central
Ah, I found the article here