Durham County, NC Dean Working Meeting

[Hep]

I have a Dean meeting about once every week. We have our meetup on the first Wednesday, A County-wide working meeting the Tuesday after that, a meetup planning meeting the Wednesday after that, and an informal get-together on pretty much a weekly basis.

Last night was our working meeting. It was unbelievable.

About thirty people attended. We had better than proportional representation from almost every segment of the population. We had black people, white people, college students, retired people, gays, straights, rich and poor. People with military backgrounds, religious backgrounds, educators, health care workers, disabled people, healthy people, etc. This is NC, where Dean has no campaign office. We are thousands strong across the state, and we're more energized than ever.

We planned about seven major campaign events over the next weeks and months. We're running the Dean campaign as if we were paid operatives. And it's going to pay off. With the primaries looking like they're going to be canceled, the primary goal will be to get Dean supporters to their caucuses, which happen about a month earlier than the primary would have. Dean's is the only campaign that can handle this kind of fundamental change in the election schedule.

Let this be a warning to all. You can put us down. You can call us idiots. You can call Dean an idiot. You can poke fun and bait and cause all the ruckuses you want. But you'd better be doing something productive outside of DU or your guy is going to get spanked.

[mmonk]

1. I am

[mmonk]

2. From right here in Wake Co. NC

and soon hope to be traveling to SC to shore up support there.

[Hep]

3. I've been impressed by NC Clark supporters

Clark and Dean are the only ones who seem to care in NC. And that includes our hometown hero Edwards.

[KoKo]

4. Hep that sounds great. When I was over in Durham for protests though,

I saw alot of Kucinch supporters with signs and T-Shirts. Even over here in Raleigh there are Dean meetups, but Raleigh is such a "la la" place not much other activity that I've seen.

Thanks for the post!

[Hep]

5. The best thing you can do in Raleigh over the next week

is get signatures for our petition drive. Anyone with a pen, a printer, and a clipboard should be out at MLK parades and other local events getting Democrats to put Dean on the ballot in NC. It's so important right now. We're well on our way, but we need a big push over the next two weeks.