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  AlterNet: Howard Dean: The Movement
Dean's vision is a bold one: to sustain populism and reclaim democracy.
Dean is trying to capitalize on the famous grassroots support that powered his own campaign -- and transfer that into cells of political involvement across the country, which would, at least theoretically, take on a life of their own.
Dean makes no secret of his concern that Nader's steadfast refusal to bow out of the race might again cost the Democratic candidate precious votes, as happened in 2000 -- and is working fiercely to dissuade progressives from voting for him.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=18808   (1436 words)

  
 Dean for DNC Chair Letter to the Editor Kit
Two "Dean Dozen" candidates won their mayoral race: Peter Corroon was elected mayor of Salt Lake County, Utah and Tom Potter was elected mayor of Portland, Oregon.
Biography of Gov. Howard Dean, M.D. Through tireless effort and positive energy, Governor Howard Dean is shaping the future of the Democratic Party in his role as founder and honorary chair of Democracy for America (DFA).
And, Gov. Dean established the "Rainy Day Fund" to carry the state through tough financial times and because of this past year, Vermont was one of only three states that did not have to raise taxes or cut programs.
dfa-arlington.unending.org /dean-dnc-chair-ltte-kit.html   (1482 words)

  
 rogers_dean_back
Dean's famous e-mail list took a substantial hit after his withdrawal from the presidential race in February, but it's beginning to grow again.
Every two weeks, in sets of 12, he is making "Dean Dozen" endorsements to boost lower ticket, often state and local candidates, much as the Christian Coalition did in building its network in the late '80s and early '90s.
Dean is working with old labor allies to promote health-care proposals at the heart of Mr.
www.devourmag.com /articles/rogers_dean_back.htm   (1067 words)

  
 Burlington Free Press - Local Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dean said Monday his Democracy for America group will announce later this week a "Dean's dozen" list of local state, and federal office seekers from around the country that it plans to support in the November elections.
Dean said the people chosen will be drawn from a list of 600 candidates recommended to his group by supporters of his failed presidential bid and will not be limited to contestants for the U.S. House and Senate.
Dean is hoping to use his prominence and his campaign's success at raising $50 million, much of it through the Internet, to help elect progressive-minded candidates.
www.burlingtonfreepress.com /specialnews/dean/299.htm   (407 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Howard Dean names 12 candidates he'll back in November
They are among the Dean Dozen, the first 12 candidates to win the formal backing of former presidential candidate Howard Dean's new political action committee, Democracy for America.
Dean dropped out of the Democratic presidential race in March and transformed his presidential campaign into a political action committee designed to help progressive candidates.
Dean is hoping to channel the energy and money of his former supporters into campaigns of like-minded candidates around the country.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20040513-1552-deanslist.html   (407 words)

  
 The Martha's Vineyard Times - www.mvtimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Throughout the night, the message was clear: Howard Dean has struck a chord with voters who are tired of stale verbiage and ponderous candidates.
Dean supporters believe that with a combination of pluck, cash, and gumption, they can place their man in the Oval Office.
Cameron discovered Dr. Dean’s web site around the time she was feeling dismay at the direction the current administration was taking.
www.mvtimes.com /calendar/dean.html   (663 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Divide and Bicker
Interviews with more than a dozen Dean advisers -- portions of which were not for attribution because many did not want to be viewed as disloyal to their former boss -- produced a picture far different from the public image of a hip, high-tech operation of dedicated Deaniacs.
When Dean, despite raising $40 million, finished third in Iowa on Jan. 19, he ripped up his prepared remarks and started yelling on his campaign bus, officials said, proclaiming that the message of taking on Washington's entrenched interests hadn't worked, that the grass roots were a mirage and had let him down.
Dean walked into the ballroom and began screaming the names of states he intended to win, finishing with a guttural "Yeaaahhhh!!" In the days that followed, O'Connor minimized the impact of that moment.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A15741-2004Feb28?language=printer   (3697 words)

  
 Dean vows action to support Kerry - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - May 04, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dean's enthusiastic effort "may be helpful" to the Democratic Party this year because it "should signal" Dean supporters to support Mr.
Dean rejected the notion that his DFA effort is similar to what Ralph Reed did through the Christian Coalition to invigorate the right wing of the Republican Party in the 1990s.
Dean said that white, working-class Americans in the South are an untapped group for Democrats, and one that could be wooed away from the Republican Party by focusing on the issues of jobs and education.
www.washtimes.com /national/20040503-103259-7187r.htm   (492 words)

  
 Maria Chappelle-Nadal
LOUIS - Maria Chappelle Nadal, democratic candidate for State Representative in the 72nd District, was recently honored as one of the "Dean Dozen," 12 individuals nationally recognized by Democracy for America, an organization established by former democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont Governor Howard Dean.
Chappelle-Nadal said she is humbled to be chosen by Dean, who was influential in raising the profile of her campaign as she runs for office as State Representative in the 72 District, which includes all of Pagedale and Wellston as well as most of University City North of Delmar and West of Skinker.
In May 2004, Howard Dean's Organization, Democracy for America, endorsed 12 people around the nation because of their grassroots efforts, called the "Dean Dozen." Among them were two Missourians included in the original endorsement, including Maria Chappelle-Nadal.
www.scanews.com /2004/june/s721/maria   (809 words)

  
 Nation-Building: 05/23/2004 - 05/29/2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
What the "Dean Dozen" is about is highlighting people who were inspired to run by Dean, and who have a commitment to Dean's principles, no matter what they're running for, no matter whether they're incumbents, no matter (even) whether their race is "strategic."
Dean would have been chewed to pieces by the Bush campaign by now in a way that Kerry has weathered remarkabbly well, and I grudgingly concede that Kerry's war record gravitas has been far more of an asset given teh instability in Iraq than I had previously thought.
Dean probably hasn't been tapped by the Kerry campaign for fear of sclipsing the candidate, and that's a shame because Dean is raw ammunition just waiting to be used.
dean2004.blogspot.com /2004_05_23_dean2004_archive.html   (1397 words)

  
 Dean roars into town | LJWorld.com
Dean, a former U.S. presidential candidate and now chairman of the Democratic National Committee, also visited the home of a Lawrence couple Friday, where donors gave $100 a head to the DNC.
Dean, former presidential candidate and now chairman of the Democratic National Committee, spoke to a crowd of about 1,000 democrats at Friday's fund-raiser for the DNC.
Dean was joined on the Liberty Hall stage by a slew of state and local Democratic officials, but not two of the highest Democrats in the state: Rep. Dennis Moore and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
www.ljworld.com /section/citynews/story/197427   (1418 words)

  
 Hillsborough: County race gets national endorser
On Thursday, the former Vermont governor announced the Dean Dozen, a group of 12 candidates across the country who are running for various federal, state and local public offices.
Dean spokesman Walker Waugh on Thursday said the former governor had received about 600 requests for support from candidates across the country.
Waugh said Tuesday that Dean hasn't decided exactly where he will make campaign stops during the election season, and much of his time will be spent stumping for Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid and other national campaigns.
www.sptimes.com /2004/05/14/Hillsborough/County_race_gets_nati.shtml   (503 words)

  
 Comments
Many DFA-endorsed Dean Dozen and DFA-supported candidates won elections at all levels of government, throughout the country.
One "Dean Dozen" candidate won her race for Congress, Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) and DFA contributed to five of the fourteen incoming freshman Democratic Members of Congress.
Two "Dean Dozen" candidates won their mayoral race: Peter Corroon was elected as mayor of Salt Lake County, Utah and Tom Potter was elected as mayor of Portland, Ore.
blogswarm.blogdrive.com /comments?id=535   (454 words)

  
 Howard Dean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dean was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1982 and was elected lieutenant governor in 1986.
Dean was born in the Town of East Hampton, New York, to Howard Brush Dean, Jr.
Dean was shouting over the cheers of his enthusiastic audience, but the crowd noise was being filtered out by his unidirectional microphone, leaving only his full-throated exhortations audible to the television viewers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_Dean   (6241 words)

  
 Dean supporters flock to Iowa finale - - MSNBC.com
Dean attends a house party earlier this week in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Democratic front-runner's campaign is flooding the state with thousands of volunteers in a bid to win decisively in the first big event of the 2004 presidential race.
She is a Dean supporter who attends house parties and rallies, contributes money to the campaign and faithfully wears a large Dean campaign button on her lapel. Tims is from Oregon, a state where the May primary will likely come long after the Democratic nomination is decided.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3859368   (787 words)

  
 Big-league endorsements for Calif. assembly race : ICT [2004/06/01]
Taking away Dean's stance on the Iraq War, most of Dean's policies and precedents had shown him to be a centrist by any kind of academic measure.
Andreas is one of a dozen candidates, known colloquially as "Dean's Dozen" endorsed by the Dean organization.
Whereas Dean is perceived as liberal and Andreas moderate, the paradigm shifts with the Republicans as Schwarzenegger is perceived as a moderate, particularly on social issues, and Garcia as
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1086102739   (863 words)

  
 News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | TOP STORIES
Howard Dean is encouraging Texans to become politically active on the grassroots level.
Dean showed his support for candidates on the Dean's Dozen list - people like Richard Morrison, who is running against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and David Van Os, who is running for Texas Supreme Court Judge.
Dean said the Democratic political fervor in Texas is exciting, but it's still going to take every voter to turn the tide.
www.news8austin.com /content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=117453   (401 words)

  
 Ky. candidates could benefit from Dean
Throughout the summer, Democracy for America, a Vermont-based political committee inspired by Dean's presidential campaign, has selected a "Dean Dozen" of candidates, whose information is forwarded to 600,000 mailing list members nationwide.
Dean dropped out of the Democratic presidential race in March, and transformed his campaign into a political action committee to help progressive candidates.
Change for Kentucky's organizers expect only three or four of the nominees to make the next Dean Dozen list, which will be the last before the Nov. 2 election.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/07/26/loc_loc2adean.html   (443 words)

  
 The Cardinal Inquirer - Dean Lives! For Dean supporters, the campaign isn't over; it's just begun
With Dean unofficially out of the race, his supporters have shifted their objective from sending him to the White House to influencing the policies of the eventual Democratic nominee.
In addition to spreading the word on Dean and assuring voters that a Dean vote was not a wasted one, the rally was also a last hurrah of sorts for his followers.
Dean is the message, and that's what we want to bring to Boston.
www.stanford.edu /class/comm273/archive/articles/0228/deanmoreau.html   (644 words)

  
 Greater Democracy: Clark's Commandos?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
My wife (http://kimhynes.smartcampaigns.com) was one of the first people that Governor Dean endorsed, part of the Dean Dozen.
Dean has said he will support additional candidates as he goes forward, and I look forward to this.
One of the things that Dean supporters had criticized other candidates for doing during the primaries was stealing Gov. Dean’s ideas and running with them.
www.greaterdemocracy.org /mt/archives/000074.html   (253 words)

  
 Off the Kuff: Dean in town
Howard Dean is visiting Houston this weekend to help raise some campaign funds for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and Richard Morrison.
Dean made it clear his visit was to lend Jackson Lee the same support she offered during the primaries.
Dean was referring to his "Dean's Dozen" program, which supports fiscally conservative, socially progressive candidates at all levels of government regardless of their potential to win.
www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/004051.html   (611 words)

  
 Howard Dean & "Democracy for America" endorseDavid Van Os for Texas Supreme Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Van Os is part of the “Dean Dozen,” a select group of socially progressive, fiscally responsible candidates that represent the spirit of grassroots democracy in this country.
On behalf of the candidates, Democracy for America has reached out to their supporters to inform them that Van Os was part of the “Dean Dozen.” Many of these enthusiastic supporters have already expressed interest in financially supporting and volunteering for candidates Dean endorses.
Governor Dean represents the aspirations of millions of Americans who want to take their country back from the special interests in every branch and at every level of government.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1218278/posts   (1699 words)

  
 WurfWhile: Kevin Conlon's Dean Reception in Chicago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Howard Dean gave a small series of talks that included heavy endorsements of John Kerry, Barack Obama, Christine Cegelis and other members of the Dean Dozen.
Dean talked about the energy his presidential campaign created, and its evolution into Democracy For America.
Dean said the Democratic Party must act as a national party, supporting candidates in southern and western states where Democrats have not done as well lately, and where the Democratic message has not always been well received.
www.wurfwhile.com /archives/000137.html   (682 words)

  
 Value Judgment: Dean's Dozen
Howard Dean has announced the first dozen candidacies that DFA2 will be supporting this cycle.
Some folks over at Kos who clearly never "got" Dean's candidacy or vision are bemoaning the fact that it's a too eclectic list, seemingly devoid of strategy.
Dean, like any good scientist, is engaged in long-term strategic thinking here.
www.valuejudgment.org /archives/000676.html   (524 words)

  
 Howard Dean: Winning Back America
Last week, Howard Dean gave one of his great "everyone on your feet" speeches at the Take Back America conference in Washington DC.
At the San Francisco event, a crowd of more than 1,000 supporters squeezed into a room set up to seat 600, and joked by saying, "With crowds like this, maybe it's not too late to get back in!" The crowd went wild, and he had to make sure they all knew he was only kidding.
Dean stated, "Democracy for America will be committed to promoting an America where candidates and office holders tell the truth about policy choices and stand up for what they believe.
www.winningbackamerica.com   (2826 words)

  
 Untitled Document
I'm honored to be part of the inaugural "Dean's Dozen," and wanted to thank people visiting our website for their activism and support.
In March 2003, Governor Dean attended the California Democratic Party's State Convention, and gave the speech of the weekend in Sacramento.
In February I was elected a Dean delegate for the national convention.
www.lorisaldana.com /pages/dozen.htm   (534 words)

  
 Democracy for America » Candidates
A long time member of the DFA community, he was a 2004 "Dean Dozen" candidate for Congress, and is now mounting a grassroots campaign for his primary.
Anne is a long-time DFA member, co-founder of Philly for Dean, Philly for Change, and PA for Democracy.
Elesha was a delegate for Howard Dean to the DNC in Boston last summer and was inspired by his campaign and grassroots effort.
www.democracyforamerica.com /candidates   (6430 words)

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