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Howard Makes Nationwide “House Call” Tonight

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This just in from the Dean Campaign:

Tonight — Monday night — more than 14,000 supporters of Howard Dean in
all 50 states will gather for house parties. Together they will set a
world record for the largest conference call in history when Governor
Dean makes his “National House Call” at 8 pm ET.
But tonight’s House Call is about more than setting a record — it’s
about sending Howard Dean into the final quarter of the year with the
financial strength he needs to win the nomination and defeat George W.
Bush in 2004.
During the House Call, from 8 to 9 pm Eastern, I ask you to support the
efforts of more than 14,000 other Dean supporters by contributing to
Dean for America. Join tens of thousands of Americans who are making this
the September to Remember by contributing what you can tonight:

http://www.deanforamerica.com/contributetoday
You can also ‘virtually’ attend the house party — and listen to
Governor’s Dean’s conference call — by checking the campaign weblog
this evening at 9 pm Eastern:

http://www.blogforamerica.com
Your contribution tonight will make a tremendous difference in our
efforts to raise the final $2 million of our goal before midnight
tomorrow.

Shrub-Haters United! More On Dean’s Grassroots Campaign

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Hey, “United we stand. Divided we fall” people.

Dean, Driven by the Grass Roots
Bottom-Up Strategy May Turn Politics Upside Down
By Lois Romano for the Washington Post.

“Did he simply unite the Bush haters or did he expand the base of the Democratic Party to something new and potentially potent? The jury is still out on that,” said Richard Bond, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee. “If these are independent swing voters, soccer moms, who ebb between the two parties and decide elections, then that’s a threatening development for Republicans.”
Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi said that anecdotal evidence suggests Dean’s supporters are a mixed bag of the party’s liberal base, reinvigorated Democrats who had either dropped out of the process or were never engaged and political independents who supported Ross Perot in 1992 and favored Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2000. Trippi said he believes they will go to the polls for Dean.
Nine months ago, there were 427 supporters signed up for Dean online. Now about 413,000 people have signed up to join the Dean campaign — and 150,000 of them have contributed money. This month, there are more than 1,200 local Dean events posted on the campaign Web site, generated almost exclusively by volunteers on their own steam and their own dime.

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Howard Dean On Good Morning America — Reaction To The Shrub’s Sept 7 Iraq Speech

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Here’s Howard Dean on the Sept 8, 2003 program of ABC’s Good Morning America. (No website available.)
Howard took the opportunity to clarify several inaccuracies in the Shrub’s September 7, 2003 speech regarding Iraq, where he states that Iraq has always had links to Al Qaeda. We know that, in fact, links between Iraq and Al Qaeda before the war have never been substantiated.
(In fact, there is evidence to the contrary.)

Howard Dean On Good Morning America (Small – 9 MB)

Howard Dean At SEIU 250’s 2003 Leadership Conference In San Francisco

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Here’s Howard’s speech from last weekend’s SEIU 250 Leadership Conference in San Francisco on Saturday, September 6, 2003.


It was really an incredible event. The crowd was really into it and Howard gave a great informal speech.
I was lucky enough to run into him as I was coming down the escalators while he and his posse were on their way into the holding room. I called his name and waved — I wasn’t really expecting him to stop — but he did stop and wait for me to come the rest of the way down so I could shake hands and say hi! What a sweetie!
(I resisted my hippy urge to give him a big old hug, although it is getting harder and harder to do that, because I really do feel like giving him a big old hug these days.)
Anyway, here’s the speech. I’ve made it available in one large video file, two smaller video files, and in a single, and two smaller MP3s for those of you who might want to play the audio or use it on your radio show.
I’m also uploading the AIFF files of the audio for you DJs and professional folks to do with as you wish. (As of 11:15 am PST – these have about two hours to go until they are uploaded.)
Enjoy!
Video:

Howard Dean At the SEIU 250 Conference – All (Small – 53 MB)

Howard Dean At the SEIU 250 Conference – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 21 MB)

Howard Dean At the SEIU 250 Conference – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 32 MB)
Audio:

Audio – Howard Dean At the SEIU 250 Conference – All (MP3 – 30 MB)

Audio – Howard Dean At the SEIU 250 Conference – Part 1 of 2 (MP3 – 14 MB)

Audio – Howard Dean At the SEIU 250 Conference – Part 2 of 2 (MP3 – 16 MB)







Howard Dean On CNBC’s The Edge

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Here’s a great informal interview with Howard Dean by Carlos Watson for CNBC’s The Edge.
Howard talks about his policy, his son, you name it, and even plays some harmonica at the end.
This interview took place on an airplane in between campaign stops.
This program was aired on September 1, 2003.
Howard Dean On CNBC’s The Edge – Complete (Small – 23 MB)
Howard Dean On CNBC’s The Edge – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 11 MB)

Howard Dean On CNBC’s The Edge – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 13 MB)













Howard Dean On Larry King Live

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This aired on
Larry King Live on August 4, 2003.
I’ve provided the interview in “complete” and three separate parts.
There’s also a rush transcript available.
Howard Dean On Larry King Live – Complete (Small – 54 MB)
Howard Dean On Larry King Live – Part 1 of 3 (Small – 19 MB)
Howard Dean On Larry King Live – Part 2 of 3 (Small – 19 MB)
Howard Dean On Larry King Live – Part 3 of 3 (Small – 16 MB)



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Video Of Letterman’s – Top 10 Signs You’re In Love With Democratic Presidential Candidate Howard Dean

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The Late Show With David Letterman show that this appeared on was rebroadcast August 12, 2003, so I was able to capture it (along with a couple of other goofy clips from that show).

Top 10 Signs You’re In Love With Democratic Presidential Candidate Howard Dean (Small – 6 MB)





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Interview With DeanSpace’s Zack Rosen

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From mild mannered student at University of Illinois, to self-proclaimed hacker for dean, Zack Rosen is now headed to Vermont to work on the Dean campaign.
I first met Zack online on his “Hack4Dean” list, when we both realized we were headed for ILAW in Stanford at the end of June. While at ILAW, we were both on a panel about “Blogging and Democracy,” where Zack gave a rather detailed explanation of how his Americans for Deans system works.
By the end of the week, Zack had arranged for Howard to blog on Larry’s blog while he went on vacation.
In the weeks that past, Zack has gotten even more involved with the Dean campaign, and has decided to take a break from school and move to Vermont to work on the campaign.
I asked Zack to answer a few questions about the work he’s been doing and the work he’s going to do in Vermont — and to maybe let myself and other’s know how to get more involved in what AmericansForDean has metamorphized into: DeanSpace.
So Zack — How did the Dean on Lessig’s blog arrangement come about?
Well, I can hardly take much credit for that enthralling piece of history, but it sure was fun watching it unfold. Here is what happened….
During my magnificent week at iLaw, I was CC’ed into an ad-hoc mailing-list conversing and brainstorming about the AmericansForDean / DeanSpace project. One night I mentioned in a mail to the list that I had given a mini-speech about it at an iLaw seminar, and that Lawrence seemed to be enthused afterwards. I also mentioned that “everyone wants to get Lessig and Dean together”. I of course had no authority to declare this to be so, but in my mind I could not imagine anyone who would not want to get Lessig and Dean together so it seemed justified enough to include in the 3AM list-mail. In any case, shortly there-after, one of the recipients decided to act upon my made-up truism, and invited Lawrence to get together with Dean. Of course nobody really could imagine what this “event” would entail, but after a bit of discussion, Dean’s camp and Lessig agreed upon a guest-blogging bonanza much to my delight.
So was that how you connected with Zephyr Teachout? How did you get involved with the “official” folks to the degree where they offered you a job?
Zephyr was one of the members of the ad-hoc mailinglist that made the Lessig-Dean thing happen, so I had been exchanging emails with her for a bit. But, later that week I was interviewed by a Wired News reporter who also interviewed Zephyr as well for the story. That is what put us in direct contact. Since then she started getting involved with the development community and a few weeks later I told her I wanted to work on the project full time rather than go back to school. In another few weeks after sending over a resume and meeting with Zephyr I was offered a job.
So it was you who proactively wanted to go work on the campaign? They didn’t lure you away from school?
I think it was a pretty mutual thing, but I offered to move down to Burlington before they offered to pay me.
So what are you going to be working on in Vermont?
While I am not to sure where exactly I will be put to task, I do know there is way more work to be done than I will ever be able to do. I will probably be spending most of my time helping and coordinating with the DeanSpace project, showing campaign offices how use the software, and helping them figure out how to run an open-source meta-mesh web-community powered grassroots Presidentical campaign.
Wow. That’s a mouthful. What’s an “open-source meta-mesh web-community powered grassroots Presidentical campaign?”
I think the two kludgy words that people will get hung up on in that description of the software the DeanSpace community is building are: “meta-mesh”. Open-source means the tools are liscensed under GPL and created by a community that resembles typical open-source development communitities ala sourceforge.net. Web-communities are pretty well understood, and have been around for a while: kuro5shinorg, slashdot.org, yahoo-groups etc.
So what the hell does “meta-mesh” mean? It is intended to describe the magic twist we are building into the web-community software we are assembling. We are making very robost RSS feed content importing and exporting tools into the DeanSpace web community “kits”. The idea being that all the different Dean community sites running our code will then have the ability to share and syndicate content and users easily across the network of Dean web-communities. We are attempting to construct a grassroots campaign network from the numerous deployed sites running our code. The goal is to have all content and users on the network wrapped in metadata, so the different sites act as two way filters to the campaign network with communities built around them, rather than as isolated independant communities.
So let’s talk more about these community “kits.” What will they include?
Well the feature spec hasn’t been completly worked out yet, but here is what is to be expected. * News / blog system * Personal blog utility for individual users * Threaded / peer-moderated forum tool * Mailing list integration * Media posting / download utility * Calendar / event system (i.e. meeting wednesday at 9 at Smiths house..) * Project / action ticketing system (i.e. help me make flyers, sign up here…) * Dean Endorser – lets users make endorsements that show up on the page and can be emailed to friends / family * Presence system – shows users who are currently online and allows users to find other users with similiar interests / affiliations.
When will the kits become available?
Don’t quite know yet. We have some early code up now you can download on DeanSpace.org, but it is missing quite a bit of functionality. I think a realistic goal would be two more weeks for the first complete 1.0 release, but we will see.
So walk me through the process of downloading and setting up one of these systems. I go to the Deanspace website, and download X and do Y….
One of our members, Alison – alison@bankofknowledge.net – just made a walk through wizard for the setup process.
http://www.bankofknowledge.net/wizard/
It is is pretty early and not very formalized, but it should help neophytes through the install / setup process. Experienced geeks knowledgeable with PHP / mySQL web backends will find the install and setup process a cynch. There is some pretty decent documentation up on DeanSpace.org in the “manual” book as well.
One of our immediate goals is to create comprehensive walkthroughs of the setup process. The manuals / wizard is the beginnings of that.
How can people become more involved with DeanSpace if they are so inclined?
Oh this ones easy. Head over to DeanSpace, make an account, join the mailing lists, read the documentation on the site, and pitch in. The development community is very open. We have bi-weekly IRC meetings and rowdy design debates. Help is very much appreciated; there is absolutely way too much work to get done.

Howard Dean At The SF Medical Society

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Here’s the entry about the other July 31st Howard Dean event I attended that goes with this one.


This SF Medical Society event was more intimate to say the least. Although the place was packed, our crew had the only video cameras there. It was obvious that Dean felt comfortable in a room full of doctors. There was a nice spread of food and wine and many people were meeting Dean for the first time. Some people had only even heard of him a week or two earlier.
I had a “volunteer” name tag waiting for me (my first!)

It made me feel like I was part of the official campaign. (As it turns out, I was. As “official” as the Dean campaign gets, anyway.)
After his speech, I had a chance to talk to him a bit about his blogging on Larry’s blog and Creative Commons. I managed to record it on video, although the angle could have been better. You can see me kind of position myself for my handshake attack and hone in on my target. (Almost missed him!) (Small – 3 MB)
Here’s his speech in complete and three-part versions:
Howard Dean At The SF Medical Society – Complete (Small – 71 MB)
Howard Dean At The SF Medical Society – Part 1 of 3 (Small – 29 MB)
Howard Dean At The SF Medical Society – Part 2 of 3 (Small – 21 MB)
Howard Dean At The SF Medical Society – Part 3 of 3 (Small – 22 MB)
Audio – Dean At the SF Medical Society – All (MP3 – 42 MB)