Archive for March, 2003
Rick Ridder steps down as campaign chief
Not sure what to make of this news, so I’ll just post it and reserve judgment till I hear from the campaign:
Howard Dean’s campaign, meanwhile, announced that two of his top aides were leaving. Campaign manager Rick Ridder is stepping down as of April 15, leaving the position vacant for now. Ridder will […]
April 26 house party
I’m in the early stages of planning a house party for Governor Dean that will be held on April 26. I really need to hear from folks who are interested in helping out with the organizational details, with building contact lists, etc. If you are in the DuPage County (Illinois) area and are […]
Dean meetup count over 9,000
On March 14, the Meetup numbers for the Dean for America campaign were just a hair over 6,000. Today – just two weeks later – that number has grown by 50%. Unreal. Tally today: 9, 351.
Looking forward to the Dean meetup in Naperville on Wednesday!
Dean hitting $1.5m fundraising goal
The AP is reporting that the campaign is going to hit its internal goal of $1.5m raised in the first quarter of 2003. This is a far cry from the other campaigns (Kerry and Edwards are both in the $4m to $5m range), but responses from some pundits are positive.
This is a strong […]
Gary Hart has a weblog
Gary Hart Joins the Blogosphere. Former Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.) has started a blog. He joins former Vermont Governor Howard Dean as a 2004 presidential candidate to embrace this technology. [via politicalwire.com] [Political Parrhesia]
Very interesting. Unlike Dean’s blog (which is maintained by the campaign and not by Governor Dean himself), this blog appears to be written directly by […]
Boston Globe on speech at Harvard
The Globe reports that there were more than 600 people in attendance – a standing room only crowd – at Governor Dean’s speech at the JFK Library yesterday.
The media sure wants this to be a dogfight – many of the press accounts of the candidacies of Dean and Kerry are increasingly pointing out […]
Wireless audio in the home
Phase 1 of the basement project is done – everything’s framed out. It’s hard to believe that I did this (power tools weren’t my forte) - but the hard work is still ahead. A friend is doing the wiring for me right now and will be done tomorrow; dry-walling can begin next week. But as I contemplate […]
Amused to Death
If you’ve never listened to Roger Waters’ masterful Amused to Death, find yourself a copy and give it a listen this weekend. It’s an album he started writing in the late 80s, and didn’t finish until the conclusion of the Gulf War. It’s a sad but brilliantly evocative album that focuses (among other things) on wars […]
Howard Dean at Harvard last night
Presidential candidate Howard Dean gave a talk at Harvard last night. He asked an interesting question. Next year, how will we feel when China invades Taiwan because they think they have weapons of mass destruction? Has the new Bush Doctrine, pre-emptive wars, unleashed a philosophy of world power that we may not be […]
Deja vu, courtesy of Feedster
For those of you who have not yet swung by Feedster, you should give it a look. It’s a powerful new addition to the searcher’s arsenal.
Many weblogs provide XML feeds. These feeds are in one of two popular formats – RSS or RDF. (Though the flame wars between the two camps are legendary, and, after […]
