Cutting Room Floor: Abe and His BlackBerry - Roll Call

Cutting Room Floor: Abe and His BlackBerry

By Roll Call Staff

Posted June 11, 2010 at 2:33pm

[IMGCAP(1)]Michael Shank, communications director for Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), is dressed up as President Abraham Lincoln for a special presentation Thursday to a kindergarten class from Oyster Elementary School in Northwest D.C. Here “Abe” checks a message using a thoroughly modern technology.

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