This is from Chris Bower's post at MyDD in December 2004 about two months before the election for DNC chair.
They called it the DNC Cattle Call. Interesting stuff in just this one post about who is for who and why they are for them...and who benefits. It is interesting because of the power play going on now from Florida and Michigan.
DNC CattleCall: Holiday EditionHoward Dean is still on track to being favored, and for him, no news is good news. Dean continues to work away under the radar, even on the web. I reviewed the Silent Revolution underway in an entry last Friday that details this a bit further. The bottom line for Dean is that the threat of an ABD candidate hasn't seriously emerged (in fact, it's very fractured at the moment), and the Not Dean argument sounds even shriller and sillier than it did a year ago. Howard Dean must become the new Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair, and nobody else will do, sums up alot of what being said on the net, and the volume will rise as Feb 12th draws near.
And Rosenberg:
For Rosenberg, the NewDem.org site has a video clip of his recent appearance on CNN’s Inside Politics, MyDD guest blogger Matt Stoller has endorsed Rosenberg for DNC Chair, Simon’s been posting regularly on the NDNBlog.org site, including The Race for DNC Chair, where the Economist profiles the RNC’s view for the job of Chair, and Simon responds on the evolving role of the DNC.
Rosenberg's total approval of the war did hurt him with many. He admitted he thought the war was a good thing. Still thought so.
And Tim Roemer was the hardest to figure, but yet the most obvious. He was the candidate of Pelosi and Reid, and the reasons are not hard to see.
Tim Roemer is calling around and sending out letters of introduction to DNC Members. To understand the candidacy of Tim Roemer, you have to understand the reason why Nancy Pelosi and Harry Ried put aside any sort of litmus test-- even regarding support against the GOP's attempts to dismantle Social Security, and it has nothing to do with abortion (which the Republicans love to have wedging around inside the Democratic camp), or the fact that Roemer is a former defense contractor lobbyist. Pure and simple, similar to the ASDC's motives, it's a money grab of the DNC by Congress. With a vacuum of power at the DNC, both the Congressional Leadership and the ASDC see the opportunity to re-allocate the DNC's funds toward their own use. Roemer is not a particularly strong candidate because he's a DC-insider, and given how toxic anything DC is to many of the DNC Members, I doubt he has much traction, but he will listen to Pelosi and Reid. I'll follow up more on this later, especially in regards to the Fowler Amendments being proposed by Don Fowler Sr of the ASDC
And Jim Blanchard.
Jim Blanchard is clinging to the hope that MI's Gov. Granholm can convince Richardson to step away from Dean, and let Blanchard have the DGA's endorsement to himself. But even then, the DGA doesn't have the sway that the ADSC does, though probably just as much as does the DC Congressional leaders. And besides, who wants an Energy Lobbyist as the next DNC Chair?
There really were some intricate interplays in the race. Some of those are showing up now. Florida folks keep saying oh no we are not attacking Dean, we just want our vote to count. Which is silly since they took their own vote away by not fighting back on the primary bill.
Even sillier because there was another chair then who endorsed Dean, not the present one. And the DNC members who went along with the endorsement of him then are now excusing everything. They don't speak up against Nelson's wishes, they don't criticize Thurman's lobbying in addition to being chair.
So some of the interplays are still there.
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