Much love for the 50-state strategy
[Current post was delayed by dead battery/lunch]
The overriding theme of the meeting here is how well Dean's broad strategy paid off in the election.
"Well as long as we're having a lovefest for the 50-state strategy..." Dean said at one point in response to yet another glowing endorsement by committee members.
As for the the candidates who benefited, Tim Walz told the committee, "Thank you for your vision that I know has been somewhat controversial." He called the plan a great use of resources and said, "because of that we're sitting in the majority."
Nancy Boyda, who "has said some wonderful, unprintable things about consultants," Dean said (clearly a woman after his own heart), told the committee that "this would not have happened had the DNC not gotten out there and done the right thing."
In a culmination of what one committee member called "a Dean lovefest"--closely tied to the aforementioned 50-state strategy lovefest--the committee passed a resolution applauding Dean and saying his strategy is "now a blueprint for building the institutional infrastructure that will strengthen our national party, maintain our recent gains and position us for success in upcoming and future elections."
Dean returned the love: "There's no 50-state strategy without the 50 states."
An unrelated aside: A funny moment came when technical difficulties delayed a presentation on the huge investment the DNC has made in technology. See Kathy Kiely's excellent notes on the DNC's PartyBuilder--a Web-based tool that "activist kids who care about something" can use to organize, Dean said--as well as other elements of the party's technological efforts.
Coming up: a reporter asks Dean a question that doesn't "compute with me."
The overriding theme of the meeting here is how well Dean's broad strategy paid off in the election.
"Well as long as we're having a lovefest for the 50-state strategy..." Dean said at one point in response to yet another glowing endorsement by committee members.
As for the the candidates who benefited, Tim Walz told the committee, "Thank you for your vision that I know has been somewhat controversial." He called the plan a great use of resources and said, "because of that we're sitting in the majority."
Nancy Boyda, who "has said some wonderful, unprintable things about consultants," Dean said (clearly a woman after his own heart), told the committee that "this would not have happened had the DNC not gotten out there and done the right thing."
In a culmination of what one committee member called "a Dean lovefest"--closely tied to the aforementioned 50-state strategy lovefest--the committee passed a resolution applauding Dean and saying his strategy is "now a blueprint for building the institutional infrastructure that will strengthen our national party, maintain our recent gains and position us for success in upcoming and future elections."
Dean returned the love: "There's no 50-state strategy without the 50 states."
An unrelated aside: A funny moment came when technical difficulties delayed a presentation on the huge investment the DNC has made in technology. See Kathy Kiely's excellent notes on the DNC's PartyBuilder--a Web-based tool that "activist kids who care about something" can use to organize, Dean said--as well as other elements of the party's technological efforts.
Coming up: a reporter asks Dean a question that doesn't "compute with me."
posted by Jeremy Egner at 12:19 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home