How to support Dean for the DNC chair

We all knew he was gonna do it.  We were just waiting for his announcement.  If you believe in moving the party power away from DC, where 'professional election losers' live, and out into America where we live, Dean's your man.  He's not a DC status quo kinda guy.

Democratic governors, senators, and congress people will be involved in deciding who will be our next DNC chair, so please contact them and urge them to support Howard Dean for the position.

For Oregonians:
Contact Kulongoski here.
Contact Senator Wyden here.
Contact Wu or Blumenauer or Hooley or DeFazio here.

And don't get intimidated when you hear wingnut pundits blabbering about how 'liberal' Dean is, and how his appointment to the chair would be the end of the Democratic party.  There's a reason they're saying that.  Republicans want the Dems to remain status quo, because as it stands status quo Dems are losers.  If the party changes, we might start winning elections again.  So, Dean is a threat. 

(I catagorized this in 'Some New Frames' because Dean wants to remake the party.)

Comments

[Phoenix Woman]

Go get 'em, Howard!

Fortunately, my Minnesota DNC delegates are all in Dean's camp. We just have to make it crystal-clear that nobody else will do.

[Neo]

I have been seeing some buzz about Kerry attempting to "vet" the potentials for DNC chair (for example, by asking them to remain neutral in presidential picks for 2008). Very disturbing.

Rebuilding the Democrat party is already a task of Herculean magnitude without this kind of backdoor manipulation.

Anyway, in addition to cheering for Dean as DNC chair, we should all make clear that in addition to rebuilding the party itself, Dems should start working more cooperatively with other progressive, third-party candidates and with independents (including supporting them in local campaigns). In 99.9% of the cases, an independent, Green, or (liberal/progressive) Dem is about good as any other in resisting RepubliNazis. Merely because a worthy candidate has the wrong "party affiliation label" should not preclude support for them (or worse, prompt attacks against them).

[Sid]

Kerry has been a huge disappointment: From the time he did nothing to counter the swift boat lies to this. What happened to the balls he had in Vietnam and the ones he brought home with him to lead the vets against the war. He's officially on my slate of submissive Dems.

[private jet charter]

We should all make clear that in addition to rebuilding the party itself, Dems should start working more cooperatively with other progressive, third-party candidates and with independents.

Luke