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Howard Dean Launches Campaign To Flip State Legislatures
The Huffington Post | By John Celock Posted: 03/26/2013 1:38 pm EDT
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) announced Tuesday that the political action committee he founded would launch a campaign to flip state legislatures around the country.
In a conference call, Dean said that Democracy for America's "Purple to Blue Project" would work to swing state legislatures from Republican to Democrat, starting in Virginia, then adding three states in 2014. DFA plans to spend $750,000 on behalf of five candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates this year, said Nick Passanante, who will head the program for DFA.
Dean, former Democratic National Committee chairman and presidential candidate, stressed the importance of stopping what he described as extreme ideas being generated by lawmakers in state Capitols around the country. He focused on Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the presumptive Republican nominee for governor, as well as lawmakers in Richmond but cited other examples, including the abortion bill signed Tuesday by North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R).
“What DFA’s effort to do here is stop the right-wing extremists," Dean said. "This is about sane normal Americans taking on these extreme people with bizarre ideas.”
More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/howard-dean-state-legislatures_n_2956633.html
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) announced Tuesday that the political action committee he founded would launch a campaign to flip state legislatures around the country.
In a conference call, Dean said that Democracy for America's "Purple to Blue Project" would work to swing state legislatures from Republican to Democrat, starting in Virginia, then adding three states in 2014. DFA plans to spend $750,000 on behalf of five candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates this year, said Nick Passanante, who will head the program for DFA.
Dean, former Democratic National Committee chairman and presidential candidate, stressed the importance of stopping what he described as extreme ideas being generated by lawmakers in state Capitols around the country. He focused on Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the presumptive Republican nominee for governor, as well as lawmakers in Richmond but cited other examples, including the abortion bill signed Tuesday by North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R).
“What DFA’s effort to do here is stop the right-wing extremists," Dean said. "This is about sane normal Americans taking on these extreme people with bizarre ideas.”
More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/howard-dean-state-legislatures_n_2956633.html
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rely on organizations like moveon, DFA, PDA and PCCC? Sorry, a rhetorical question.
...who wanted to go back to the same failing political approach that precipitated the Howard Dean People Powered movement (looking at you Rahm Emanuel, David Plouffe and Jim Messina). Let's not forget that the massive grassroots based approach that the Obama campaign so effectively campaigned on was pioneered by anti-establishment Deaniacs.
We need a 50 state strategy, anything less is accepting that there are places we just can't win over in America.
