Would someone please inform the media that there is no......
Office of the President Elect.
Geez,
I sometimes have to wonder if you are 10 eggs short of a dozen sometimes. Stop listening to Rush please, he makes you look silly when you repeat his cr*p.
There is an OFFICE of the President Elect.
Someone needs to inform you. Guess it will have to be me.
Presidential Transition Office Sets Up Near White House
Security Perimeter Created Around DoJ Building That Will House Transition Operation
The presidential transition team for President-Elect Barack Obama has found a home at Liberty Square, taking two floors at the office building that is a few blocks from the White House, CoStar News has confirmed with multiple sources.
The General Services Administration (GSA) leased the entire 482,130-square-foot building, which is at 450 5th St. NW in Washington, DC, in 2006 for the Justice Department. A security perimeter has been erected around the building on D and E and 5th and 6th streets, according to WTOP News, which reported the building address separately this morning. WTOP identified the space as 451 6th St., which CoStar data shows alternately as 450 5th St.
The transition office will serve as a staging area for the incoming administration, which took control of the space Wednesday. GSA provides the president-elect and vice president-elect with services, facilities and funding during the transition period, as stated under the Presidential Transition Acts of 1963 and 2000.
Liberty Square is an 11-story office building that formerly housed the Securities & Exchange Commission. It delivered in 1982 and was renovated in 2006, according to CoStar information.
With his inauguration 74 days away, Obama has been assembling his transition team while also mulling Cabinet appointments and solutions to the economic crisis. This week he named John Podesta, Bill Clinton's former chief of staff, to head the transition team, and Illinois House Representative Rahm Emanuel as his White House chief of staff.
Obama was in Chicago Friday to deliver his first press conference as president-elect, which focused heavily on the economy.