Showing posts with label Howard Dean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howard Dean. Show all posts

March 21, 2012

Watching The Trib Omit

I'll say it again - oh the stuff they leave out!

Take a look at this Editorial from today's Tribune-Review (by the way, it's titled "Ed the terrorist?":
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is so self-serving that he accepted apparently illegal payments for speeches supporting an Iranian-dissident organization that the State Department has listed as a terrorist group since 1997.

The Treasury Department has subpoenaed records related to payments that Mr. Rendell admits taking in exchange for advocating removal of the People's Mujahedeen of Iraq, aka Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), from State's terror-group list.

He denies wrongdoing and says he and his agent are cooperating. Yet a Treasury spokesman told The Washington Times that "U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with or providing services to this group."
As always, when you peek into the details you'll see what Scaife's braintrust has decided you don't need to know.  From there you can decide for yourself their credibility.

April 28, 2011

Turd Blossom and The Doctor Who Screamed

Wednesday night, I was lucky enough to attend the last lecture of the 9th season of the Pittsburgh Speakers Series. It took place at Heinz Hall, dahn-tahn.

From the series' website:
WHAT IS THE PITTSBURGH SPEAKERS SERIES?

The Pittsburgh Speakers Series is a series of seven different lectures, on seven evenings, at Heinz Hall from October through April.

Our distinguished speakers share with the audience their unique experiences and perspectives on a wide variety of topics - from world affairs & politics, to history & the environment, to books & authors, to business & economics, to the Arts & entertainment. For those who wish to ask the speaker questions, an exciting question and answer session follows each lecture.
While the tickets for the series are only sold as a series, I was able to snag a single ticket for the event - a dual lecture with former Bush Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove and former Vermont Governor and DNC Chairman, Howard Dean:
Two powerhouses of the American political system faceoff in an evening featuring individual commentary followed by a response to each other’s talk and audience Q&A. Rove is former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President G.W. Bush. Former Governor of Vermont and DNC Chairman, Dean ran for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.
The seating at these events (or at least the one I attended) is rather odd. The first 5 rows or so in front and the last 10 or so are designated "free seating" while the vast middle is reserved. I don't know if it's a similar situation in the balcony. Arriving early, I got a seat in the "free seating" section in front (second row, extreme left as you look out from the audience) very close to the stage, very close to the door Rove and Dean would be walking out of.

WQED's Jim Cunningham was the evening's moderator.

The plan of the evening was this; each guy would get 15-20 minutes for an "introspective" lecture to the audience and then the rest of the time would be taken up with questions and answers and rebuttals to those answers.

Rove, by virtue of a coin toss, went first.

Politics aside, Karl Rove is a very funny guy and a very good public speaker. He gave a concise and very polished "aw shucks, ma'am" autobiography that went from his childhood to his time in the Bush Administration, though the details of his time in the White House were, uh, rather sketchy. A couple of very moving scenes from 9/11 and that was about it.

Governor Dean's 20 minutes were less polished, though not less successful. More rumpled than his cuff-linked counterpart, he managed to get some applause where Rove didn't. It was at that point I thought, "The crowd's Dean's."

That assessment, however, turned out to be incomplete. During the question and answer time, Rove did get some applause to some of his answers. A respectable amount, to be sure as his answers pleased sizable chunks of the audience. His applause also happened to be less than the applause Dean got.

But back to the introspection. What we learned about Karl Rove:
  • He grew up out west. Not poor, but on the "shabby side of middle class."
  • He was always a nerdy kid - his first paper in class was on dialectical materialism.
  • His first "campaign" work (at about 10) was riding up and down his street with a Nixon bumper sticker on his bike. That got him beaten up by the 12 yr old girl who was a Kennedy Supporter.
  • His rise in the GOP from College Republican to Texas to the White House was fast.
  • He was against the idea of Dick Cheney as Vice President.
  • Dick Cheney shot Rove's lawyer and there were laughs all around.
Dean's lecture was somewhat less polished. Some (though not all) of his jokes fell flat. Flat like a flat thing flatly falling. The point of his speech seemed to be that what America needs is for politicians to do what's right for the country and not what's merely right for their own careers. He gave a few examples:
  • Signing the first Civil Unions in the United States bill into law. He said it was the right thing to do even though he had to wear a bullet proof vest for the rest of his time as governor.
  • He told about a few legislators in Vermont who lost their seats after voting for that legislation - even when they knew that their vote wasn't necessary for it to pass. They voted for it anyway because it was the right thing to do.
Then we moved on to the question and answer period. This is where I had some issues. The questions were not done "live" from the floor but were chosen ahead of time.

There were a little more than a half dozen questions Cunningham asked Rove and Dean. He told me after the lecture that the members of the previous lecture's audience were asked to submit questions via email. When asked he said there were "hundreds" and that the producers of the series chose which questions he was to ask. He did stress that neither Rove nor Dean knew the questions beforehand. In other words, they heard them when we heard them. Out of hundreds of questions only a handful made it onto the stage.

And of those, there were no questions regarding:
  • The Bush v Gore Supreme Court case
  • The run up to war with Iraq
  • The never found WMD
  • The illegal domestic surveillance
  • The outing of Valerie Plame
  • The Bush-approved torture
Out of the hundreds of questions emailed-in, Rove and Dean were asked about:
  • Navigating the lies and distortions of the current media environment (this included a brief discussion by Rove of the Long Form Birth Certificate released by the White House. By the way Rove said that Obama withheld it in an effort to let the Republicans further discredit themselves.
  • 2012 Campaign strategy
  • Job creation
  • Corporate Tax breaks
  • The Citizens United Supreme Court case
  • Family Values v Political Competence - which is more important in a candidate?
Don't get me wrong these are all very important topics. But weighed against the enormity of some of the decisions made by the Bush Administration and given that Karl Rove was there in the middle of things for nearly 7 years, you'd think that there'd be at least one question about state-approved torture or yellowcake uranium or smoking guns as mushroom clouds.

But there wasn't.

Yea, I kinda have a problem with that.

We were told at the beginning of the evening that the lecture would be an example of two people of opposing views having a civil discussion. But if civility means ignoring, for example, the events leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents, then perhaps a little less civility is in order, if only for a chance to face the truth.

December 15, 2009

Howard Dean: Kill the bill

From The Plum Line:
In a blow to the bill grinding through the Senate, Howard Dean bluntly called for the bill to be killed in a pre-recorded interview set to air later this afternoon, denouncing it as “the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate,” the reporter who conducted the interview tells me.
More here.
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August 10, 2009

Bill Clinton at Netroots Nation + Other NN News



President Bill Clinton will be giving the keynote speech at Netroots Nation 2009 this Thursday. Those not living under a rock know that NN 2009 (formerly known as YearlyKos) is being held in Pittsburgh this week (August 13-16 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center) and that it's a national convention for progressive bloggers.

Other pols and local luminaries participating in various panels include:
Gov. Howard Dean
Sen. Arlen Specter
Gov. Don Siegelman
Rep. Joe Sestak
Rep. Jerrold Nadler
PA Rep. Chelsa Wagner
Mayor John Fetterman
City Councilman Bill Peduto
Witold "Vic" Walczak
Dr. Cyril Wecht
Rev. Janet Edwards
Khari Mosely
Celeste Taylor
Paradise Gray
Kimberly "Dr. Goddess" Ellis

Full Speaker list here and agenda here.
I am looking forward to hearing from some of the rock stars of my world including: Digby, Pam Spaulding, Marcy Wheeler, Jane Hamsher, Christy Hardin Smith, Amanda Marcotte, Amanda Terkel, Robert Greenwald, Matthew Yglesias and Gen. JC Christian. I also plan to attend the Official "Unofficial Opening Night After-party" and the mixer sponsored by Keystone Progress.

Or, I could decide to bag it all and attend the competing conservative blogger conference in Pittsburgh this week (RightOnline) and see Joe the Plumber -- talk about your star power!

If you'd like to help with NN 2009, you probably can still volunteer by contacting Eric Thut (eric@netrootsnation.org), but you'd better be quick about it.

Also, check out the forum in pghRoots where there are folks looking for room shares, rides, etc.
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October 28, 2008

Howard Dean Joins Obama Volunteers in da Burgh

WHAT: Pittsburgh College Student Phone Bank
WHO: DNC Chairman, Howard Dean
WHEN: 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, October 28, 2008
WHERE: University of Pittsburgh, William Pitt Union Building, Assembly Room, Pittsburgh, PA

WHAT: Pittsburgh Phone Bank
WHO: DNC Chairman, Howard Dean
WHEN: 12:15 p.m., Tuesday, October 28, 2008
WHERE: Campaign for Change Office, 501 East Ohio St., Pittsburgh, PA

NOTE: I was supposed to attend a 9:30 meeting downtown with Dean but google transit screwed me over and after standing in the rain for 35 minutes and then finding out it'd be another 25 minutes before I'd maybe get a bus, I had to give up. [sigh]
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August 15, 2008

Fundraiser with Howard Dean

I arrived a bit early at the fundraiser last night. When I got there, the volunteers were busy checking people's names while other volunteers were busy handing out free bottles of water (I was offered three, I think, while still drinking the one I'd accepted) and ushered inside. The mood was "up" without being hurried.

And Bruce Springsteen, of course, was playing on the sound system.

All politics aside, if you haven't been to the Church Brew works, you really should treat yourself. The building used to house the St. John The Baptist church and was built in 1902. It ceased being a church in the early nineties.

The menu is good and the beer is tasty.

A few minutes after arriving, I meandered around, bottled water in hand, greeting the few people there I already knew.

"Hey, have you seen the Hillary protestors outside?" I was asked.

I hadn't. I'd only been there a few minutes. When did the protestors arrive? In any event, here they are - all six of them.

I know you probably can't read the signs as the picture is too small. So out of fairness to the protestors as well as to make sure their views are represented, the signs the Hillary Clinton supporters were carrying read (roughly from left to right):

  • With friends like Rezko, Kilpatrick, Wright, who has time for Russia?
  • No voice no democracy Nobama.
  • I am one of the 18 million of "those people"
  • Honk for Hillary
  • The associates of Barack Obama; Nadhami Auchi, Tony Rezko, M Marzook, Rev Wright, Quadaffi, William Ayers, The Woods Fund, Odinga, Allison Davis, Rashid Khalidi, Obongo Obama, Farrakhan, James Meeks. Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Obama)
  • Equal pay for women starting with Obama staff
  • FISA is not democratic
  • Where is the Birth certificate Barack Hussien (sic) Obama
  • Bitter Bullets N'Faith
  • No vote no democracy
  • Is this 2000 or 2008
  • 18 million deni(ed) 18 million not hea(rd)
  • Rise Hillary rise

There were considerably more people in the hall.

The place was crowded; enough to feel cramped not crowded enough to start obsessing about Soylent Green. Among the crowd was Patrick Dowd (all smiles fresh from a rousing few days on City Council) and Dan Onorato (bravely milling about in what is obvious enemy drink tax territory).

By 7pm the festivities started. Patrick Dowd introduced the celebrity of the evening, Kal Penn. For those who don't know the name, he was "Kumar" in the two "Harold and Kumar" movies. He told a story of a friend of his from Texas. A guy who was working minimum wage and was offered $90k by Halliburton to drive a truck in Iraq. Only in America, Penn said, can a guy be given the choice of making some nice cash (though in a war zone) or struggling on minimum wage in Texas. He said he became a fan of Obama after hearing the Keynote address the last Democratic Convention in 2004. He said he became a bigger fan after learning that Obama had taught Constitutional Law. He said that he remembers thinking that it would be nice to have a President who'd READ the Constitution.

That got a laugh.

Next up was County Executive Dan Onorato. When he was introduced, I thought I could hear a boo or two, but in a room of 2 to 3 hundred I might have mis-heard. Dan's big point was "party unity." "We're unified" he said. "If I can show up at Sean Casey's place" (meaning the Brew Works) "that means we're unified." He said that there's too much at stake to have any interparty tensions. No idea if the protestors outside got the message.

Next up was DNC Chair Howard Dean.

He gave a rousing talk to the faithful. It's time for a President who's President to all the people, not just those who agree with him, he said. He talked about the cost of the war in Iraq, the need for health care and why the $10 billion a month being spent in Iraq would be better spent here in America. He talked a bit about the battle ground states in the next election, but had to stop short as "he's not allowed to give a lists of states any more."

When he got to the election he said that Dan Onorato is not going to win this election, the state party is not going to win this election, Barack Obama is not going to win this election, "You," he said, "You are going to win this election."

He said that when Barack Obama is the next President, he'll have two different jobs;

  • Healing America and
  • Restoring America's moral authority

Healing America from the divisiveness brought on by 8 years of Bush disrespect and restoring America's moral authority so that we can work with other nations again. He said he was never so proud as when a few weeks ago when Barack Obama spoke to 200,000 cheering Europeans "all waving American flags." How long has it been since Europeans did that?

In the end, he said that he wants a President who stands for what's best about America not what's worst.

Could not agree more.

August 13, 2008

Howard Dean Fundraiser in Pittsburgh!

Thursday (August 14) at 6pm

The Church Brew Works (Pittsburgh, PA)
3525 Liberty AvenuePittsburgh,
PA 15201

Tickets are $25

The full details.

The quick details:

To RSVP.

Ticket Info: No paper tickets issued; names of paid guests will be added to the guest list. The hosts prefer to have tickets purchased via the website.

August 12, 2008

EVENTS

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Drinking Liberally Pittsburgh
WHAT:
Drinking Liberally Pittsburgh
WHEN: TODAY! Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 7:00 PM
WHERE: Buffalo Blues (upper deck) on 216 S. Highland Ave. in Shadyside

Drinking Liberally Pittsburgh meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month at Buffalo Blues. "Come and meet with us for an evening of progressive conversation about what's going on in the city, state, country and the world!" Special Guest: Steve Hvozdovich, the Allegheny & Washington Co. Field Director for Steve O'Donnell's campaign for US Congress, will be attending this Tuesday's gathering. Steve O'Donnell, for those not aware, is the Democratic challenger to Tim Murphy in the 18th district.

For more info: http://livingliberally.org/drinking/chapters/PA/pittsburgh or email pittsburgh@drinkingliberally.org


Thursday, August 14, 2008

Howard Dean Reception Benefiting Obama Victory Fund
WHAT:
Gov. Howard Dean at a reception benefiting the Obama Victory Fund
WHEN: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 6:00 PM
WHERE: The Church Brew Works, 3525 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA

COST: $25 per person

To R.S.V.P. please go to
https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/DeanAug14PA
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January 10, 2008

"Kerry to endorse Obama"

That's today's headline, but I'd like to remind everyone of another headline:

Al Gore endorses Howard Dean
Gore: 'One candidate clearly now stands out'


Anyone remember how that worked out?
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September 14, 2007

Boehner's "Small Price" - A Follow-up

If you need to refresh your memory, go here.

Yesterday, Congressman Boehner tried to weasel out of things - by spinning and misleading, of course. Here's what can be found in The Politico's Crypt (h/t to Think Progress) where they got a comment from Kevin Smith, Boehner's Communications Director:

Wolf asked about the money spent in Iraq, and that’s what Mr. Boehner was referring to when he said our troops’ efforts are critical for the safety and security of our country. To attempt to put a dollar figure on what we are doing in Iraq does a disservice to the work our troops are doing to make our children and theirs safer.

Smith added: There isn’t a Member of Congress who appreciates the sacrifices of our troops more than Mr. Boehner. In fact, the reason he visited Iraq was to thank our troops for their service on behalf of our country and take a firsthand look at the progress on the ground that Democrats are so desperate to ignore. He had lunch with troops from Ohio today. Mr. Boehner is doing everything he can to ensure our troops come home after victory, not defeat, and General Petraeus has outlined a responsible strategy to do just that.

But we need to take a look at exactly what Wolf Blitzer asked the Congressman. Here it is again:
Mr. Leader, here is the question. How much longer will U.S. taxpayers have to shell out $2 billion a week or $3 billion a week as some now are suggesting the cost is going to endure, the loss and blood the Americans who are killed every month, how much longer do you think this commitment, this military commitment, is going to require?" [emphasis added]
Blitzer, at the very least, was not asking about just the money spent, but also about the number of American servicemen killed or wounded. The fact that Boehner is now trying to ignore that part of the question qualifies as a major spin.

So far there's been little coverage from the MSM (even CNN). At least it's not a botched joke from John Kerry - now that would have been news! Karen Tumulty at Time, after quoting Senator John McCain excusing Boehner's comment as a "he misspoke" moment, says:
Meanwhile, over at Think Progress, they have Boehner's response to the criticism he is getting, as well as the full question he was asked. Looking at the transcript, it appears this is one where it's going to be hard to take a mulligan.
For those who don't play golf, a "mulligan" is a "do-over."

Some other reactions.

DNC Chair Howard Dean:
House Republican Leader John Boehner’s comments yesterday are deplorable and he should apologize immediately. Our brave men and women who have given their lives in service to our country and their families have made the ultimate sacrifice, and to say anything less is insulting to their memories and service. Republicans stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that their Iraq policy is a failure, our troops are mired in a civil war and we’re not making the necessary political progress on the ground. Bohener’s comments show how truly out of touch the Republicans are. The loss of a son or daughter is never a small price to pay, especially for a policy which was initiated by Republicans who misled the nation about why we are there. The war in Iraq must end. We need to bring our troops home.
Senator John Kerry:

What a stunningly cavalier statement about the lives of the young men and women who serve our country.

Whether you support or oppose the Bush escalation, no American should ever for even a moment think the cost of war is small.

A single life is a large price to pay for any endeavor. Sometimes, in our national interest, we choose to pay that awful price, but we must always make sure that the policy is worthy of it.

Visit our wounded warriors at Walter Reed hospital and ask whether the price they paid was small. Talk to the mothers, fathers, husbands and wives of those who have been killed and ask them to measure the price of war. Young lives stopped short, children who won't have a mother or father there as they grow up, when they graduate, when they get married -- that loss is many things, but it is not small.
Where is Representative Boehner's apology? And where is an Iraq policy equal to our soldiers' tremedous sacrifice?

We already have a reaction from Boehner's office. No apology is necessary because he's trying the best he can to spin his way out from under his reprehensible statement. Why take responsibility (and apologise) when you can just spin it away? That's how things work for Washington DC Republicans.

Any other reactions from any other Democrats?

Perhaps they should grow a spine and speak up.

August 1, 2007

Howard Dean In Pittsburgh

Close to 500 people showed up at the Church Brew Works to hear Gov. Howard Dean, head of the DNC, speak tonight.

I showed up a little early and before the crowd arrived. Signed in, my named carefully checked off a sheet of paper, a yellow paper band around my left wrist, I walked into the already bustling hall. The wait staff was preparing the hall for the a couple hundred political types. Volunteers from the USW in matching t-shirts and non-USW volunteers were shepherding the other earlies to their seats. I got to hang with the other "press" types.

The OPJ was there, too! It's an odd occurrence, the two of us being in the same place at the same time but it happened tonight. The grand irony of the evening, she quickly told me, is that as a volunteer she was in charge of the MSM area. Think of it, Chris Potter, a blogger was put in charge of the MSM press folks.

Soda (what the locals inexplicably call "pop") and bottled water were free. Beer you had to pay for. And there were boxes of pastries from Prantl's. The chocolate frosted chocolate cake cubes covered with chocolate sprinkles were particularly good.

The specific planning for this event took about a month, Richard Pierson, one of the hosts, told me. They wanted everything to go smoothly. At a previous event, the PA system wasn't really working out very well, so some effort was put into getting a better one. Tonight, there were the main speakers up front and then another bank of speakers all pointed outward set in the middle of the hall.

By 4:30 (the time the event was supposed to start) people were still streaming in. Everyone from the press stood around waiting. TV crews from PXI and KDKA were scrambling for a position on the camera stand. Delano was planning a live shot. Jim O'Toole was thumbing through a copy of the latest City Paper. Any sort of crew from WTAE-TV, Maria told me, was no where to be found.

Springsteen was playing on the PA system. In a loop. I heard "Philadelphia" at least three times. "Glory Days" at least twice.

The Party Begins

At 5:15, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and County Executive Dan Onorato arrived, shook a few hands and made it up onto the stage, followed up the other "Hosts" of the evening. Jim Burn, head of the Allegheny County Democratic Committee, in his introductory remarks noted that the Mayor and the County Executive were sitting together and that they're "getting along just fine."

There was a minor ripple of laughter through the crowd at the joke. If you didn't get the joke, read this.

Burn went on to talk about how the Republicans were using the primary debates to tarnish the Democratic presidential candidates. He reminded the crowd (this time to great applause) that "the debate is in the spring, the fight is in the fall."

He then introduced the mayor. It's difficult to describe the level of applause heard. It was not at all overwhelming (that would come a little later) but calling it merely "respectful" would be just as incorrect. It was somewhere inbetween. "Healthy" might be a good adjective to describe it. It was obvious the mayor had a few fans in the crowd. I even saw a couple of "I Like Luke" buttons.

The mayor outlined some of the things Democrats needed to do in the upcoming election season - show the differences between what Democrats stand for and what Republicans stand for. He then introduced the County Executive who then repeated (to much the same effect as before) Jim Burns' joke. He put his arm around Mayor Ravenstahl and told the crowd "He's my new best friend. He spoke of the need for economic development, how he was looking forward to working with the mayor in the fall, and how we all have to work together to make sure "we take back the White House" in 2008.

When Patrick Dowd was introduced, the crowd erupted. Loudly. It was his crowd. He said it was an honor to introduce Gov Dean and pointed out the two things Dean understands. 1) that the Democratic Party is the popular party, it's the party of the people, and 2) how to build a party organization.

Gov Howard Dean

When Patrick Dowd introduced Howard Dean, the crowd really went wild. Tieless but wearing a Patrick Dowd sticker on his blue shirt, he entered from the back of the hall, strode down the center aisle and onto the stage.

After thanking the dignitaries in the crowd (especially Prantl's) he went into a passionate defense of the Democratic Party. He began by saying that the age of the the "one way" campaign is over - and used as an example Dowd's recent campaign - Dowd knocked on 12,000 doors. It's no longer enough to just put a 15 second commercial on the air. You have to get involved with the people whose votes you're looking for. He said that's why he thought the recent YouTube debate on CNN was such a great idea. For the first time in 45 years ordinary Americans could ask questions in a serious debate forum.

He said later that he wasn't surprised that the Republicans are running from a similar format - probably for exactly the same reason.

Talking about the party, he used 2006 win of Jason Altmire as another example of the new Democratic "50 State" strategy. Altmire was not afraid of "a darling of" the far right, Dean said. When the election was over, and Altmire was the winner, it was all discovered that the average American does not agree with the politics of the far-right.

All of us, he said, vote based on our emotions. And when we speak from our emotions, and with a positive message, we can overcome the hate spewed out from conservative talk-radio. Americans are tired of feeling bad about America - and that's what they get from talk radio.

He went on to counter a new Republican talking-point.

The Democratically controlled Congress has done more in 6 months (funding for Walter Reed hospital, the recent ethics bill, instituting the findings of the 9/11 commission etc) than the Republicans did in the previous s 6 years.

The Republican candidates (all except for the lone libertarian among them) want to stay the course in Iraq. They thought it a great idea to commute the Scooter's sentence, to veto healthcare for kids. It's the same old stuff from the same old party. The same old tired right-wing nonsense.

The Democrats are the ones saying no to torture. The ones opposing the Republican culture of corruption.

He said that something's happened in the past 8 years. Something not normal. It's not normal, for instance, to have a president of the United States who doesn't understand the Constitution of the United States.

He made one more comparison between the parties. The Democrats will not put party over the interest of the nation. The Democrats will restore honesty to government.

The future looks brighter for Democrats. Looking at the various polling data, on who's polling and what they believe. The values of those under 30 far more match the values of the Democratic party than they do the Republican party.

They are the Old America, he said.
We are the New America.

July 27, 2007

Join the Party with Howard Dean!

SAVE THE DATE

Heather Arnet
Jennifer Brady
Kirk Burkley
Leo M. Castagnari
Dan Cerrone
Charlie Datz
Christina Dixon & Geoffrey Webster
Patrick Dowd
John Hagan
Cris Hoel
Thomas Juring
Jeff Meagher
Khari Mosley
Heidi & Andrew Norman
Liane Ellison Norman & Robert Norman
Lazar Palnick
Lindsay Patross
Richard Pearson
Vickie Pisowicz
Lynda Wrenn
Danika Wukich
R. Clayton Wukich
and

Governor Howard Dean, M.D.
Chairman, Democratic National Committee

Invite you to

JOIN THE PARTY!

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

The Church Brew Works
3525 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA

4:30 PM
"Join the Party" Reception
$25 per person

RSVP Here