Asking what we can do for our candidate
As I've said before,
the donors to any political campaign own their candidate. In the age of Broadcast
Politics,
the donors were the big donors–corporations and their masters–and
we see now how that turns out. 400,000 people have registered at the DeanforAmerica
site, made hundreds of thousand donations, buying
hope one month at a time.
Dean's in the pockets of his donors, like any candidate, but the good news
is that he's
beholden to us all, and not to large interests.
This weekend, Josh
Koenig and I are driving to Dean HQ in Burlington as part of the IT
Nirvana effort .
We don't care if we'll be pulling wires, hacking code or developing analytical
models,
we're just there for a week to fill in where useful.
And we'll hang with the
campaign people we've come to know, respect and value. If the opportunity
arises, we'll talk about stuff that's important to us.
Maybe we're forgetting something. If there's a question or issue you'd
like us to
have in mind, please post it here. With any luck, your concern will be
more important
than ours, so we can nudge it to the top of the stack.
There's no way to
know if we'll have time to mention anything, but it would sure be great to
have a list.
Thanks.
12:35:33 PM 
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