Pete Giangreco left a comment the other day about Donnie Fowler:
Take a close look at my friend Donnie Fowler for DNC chair.
Here’s a guy is been on both ends. He was grassroots before grassroots was cool — worked in 14 states including state director for Kerry in Michigan. He’s also done the national piece as Natl Field Director for Gore. 3 years in Silicon Valley, gets new politics, but also understands that we can’t write off the rural Midwest, the West and places like his homestate of South Carolina.
Last week he unveiled his new podcasting plans — sending recorded messages for people to download onto their Ipods.
He gets it.
Donnie’s site is here
Donnie has had some rough treatment by some of the blogs, but he’d be a good choice as well. I think he understand the grassroots, perhaps in a way that some blog focused folks don’t. I’d put him in the category of three people running that provide me with some hope for reshaping the party in terms of structure and efforts. He needs to work a bit on the the interactive nature of online activism, but he’s trying to be chair, not chief technician.
All that said, Fowler and Simon Rosenberg are left in the shadow of Howard Dean who is racking up a lot of early endorsements. Today Dean racked up the endorsements of Party Chairs or Vice Chairs in six different states.
As such a hugely high profile race, competent guys like Rosenberg and Fowler are finding it hard to get oxygen, but both would probably do a good job.
UPDATE: Fixed title typo.
The DNC chair will have to shake-up the status quo on Dem consultants. Right?
Who made the analogy to pro-sports? If the team is losing there needs to be a management shake-up.
While one consultant backing one candidate isn’t terribly significant, I would be suspicious of a candidate too closely allied with the consultants.
Dem heavyweights scramble to stop Dean
Howard Dean is likely to become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee, and the establishment Dems can’t stand it. The American Spectator reports:
On Tuesday, everyone from Senate minority leader Harry Reid to House leader Nancy Pelos…