Dean on the road to the White House - one phonecall at a time

[Scott Lee]

"Honey, it's for you.....it's Howard Dean!"


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Dean rings up local home in 'House Call' campaign

By MARY CAREY Staff Writer


Friday, January 02, 2004 -- Al Woodhull scanned his living room, where three dozen or so people were looking in the direction of his telephone just before 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Within minutes, Howard Dean, the front-running Democratic candidate for president, got on the line after an introduction by Tipper Gore and then her husband, Al Gore.

''We're in the home stretch,'' Dean, who was in Iowa, assured his supporters via conference call. ''About 10 months from now, we'll be sending George Bush on a one-way trip back to Crawford, Texas.''

The party, at the home of Woodhull and Barbara Francis at 218 Strong St., was one of 1,308 house parties held nationwide Dec. 30 to ring in the new year. On Sept. 29, supporters had staged 1,442 house parties for the ''National House Call'' with Dean, a medical doctor, an event his campaign calls ''the largest conference call in history.''

http://www.gazettenet.com/story.cfm?id_no=1020019

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By the way, will George Bush-hole be calling your homes, too? Not likely. Let me remind the DLC and the Dean detractors, as they madly start typing their attacks on Dean's phone-conference tactic, that Bush-hole doesn't care what you think.

[lurk_no_more]

1. Did he call and ask for an invite?

” JAFO”

[Scott Lee]

2. Dean cares what you think. Bush does not.

That was the point.

Howard Dean continues to trailblaze a new way of doing politics, and his detractors just crank up the yowls of bitter opposition to it.

[lurk_no_more]

4. So if I vote for dean

and he gets elected, would he, Tipper and Al be calling me all the time telling me how much they care about me?

Being a Democrat, I never expected bush to care about me, but bush probably has called other republicans to tell them he cared about them, just before he asked for more money.

Now if dean were to call me knowing I don't support him, just to tell me he cared about me and didn't ask for money, now that would send a message I might relate to.

On Edit: I did recieve a personal phone call from Clark, to thank me and my wife for our work in the draft movement and for us putting together our local website, and wasn't asked for money.


” JAFO”

[Scott Lee]

5. you stand a greater chance with Dean

Who has invented the "people powered" movement. Evidence that he has gone so far as a mini plebiscite amongst his supporters to ask their advice on a matter or two. The guy clearly is more at home with truly representative democracy than Bush-hole.

But you know, its still a relatively free country. You are free to throw in with Bush-hole or perhaps some of the other Democratic contenders, who have shown that they really do not care what you think.

[lurk_no_more]

6. I would suggest you re-read post #4

On edit I explained I am getting all the assurance I need from Clark that he does care about me as well as the rest of America.

I do take exception to your insinuation that if I don't join the dean club, "You are free to throw in with Bush-hole', this does nothing to endear me to participate in a dean conference call.


” JAFO”

[Scott Lee]

7. you seem to have an issue with Dean reaching out, but not Clark

Which, as a Clark supporter that you are, is not a surprise.

What does surprise me is that you see no connection between donating valuable time to the Clark campaign as the same as donating money. Why you feel privileged for getting a Clark call thanking you for donating time, but are repulsed at the idea of Dean calling thanking one for money, is truly perplexing.

Time = Money = Time.

[bhunt70]

3. Thats pretty cool.

[JNelson6563]

8. He called me too!

It was a delightful visit! :-)

Julie