Dean Serves Red Meat For Breakfast Today

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20 years ago

“In order to win the White House in 2008,” DNC Chair Howard Dean told a crowd at a West Hollywood breakfast this morning, “Democrats have to elect a Democrat Secretary of State in Ohio and a Democrat Governor in Florida so he/she can appoint a Democrat Secretary of State.” Also in Dean’s sights … below …

[Democrats] have to stop Arnold Schwarzenegger and his plan to divide California’s electoral votes by Congressional Districts, because then the State’s 55 votes would not be safe for Democrats. That Arnold does not have such a plan did not seem to matter much for Dean.

The breakfast was “sponsored by ANGLE–a gay and lesbian political group,” but “Dean’s record on gay rights didn’t seem to matter much to the crowd either, who applauded voraciously when Dean’s signing of Vermont’s Civil Unions bill was brought up.” But, writes the blogger, BoiFromTroy, after one speaker said that Dean “has balls” for signing the Vermont bill:

Dean had a choice between Civil Unions or Gay Marriage–those were the only choices given to him by the courts. I would not call his choosing the lesser of the two options a Profile in Courage.

Among the crowd, reports BoiFromTroy, were:

… a panoply of elected officials and aspirants, including Assemblymembers Paul Koretz, John Laird and Mervyn Dymally, County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, LA City Councilmembers Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti, as well as future Councilman Bill Rosendahl, West Hollywood Councilmembers John Duran, John Heilman, Jeffrey Prang and Abbe Land. Land’s opponent for the State Assembly in 2006, Mike Feuer, was also there …

FOCUSING: Dean’s plans to “elect a Democrat Secretary of State in Ohio and a Democrat Governor in Florida so he/she can appoint a Democrat Secretary of State” are great strategies. Let’s hope he succeeds and that we can help him get the job done.

Blog link courtesy of Howard Martin’s blog

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