Promoted from the diaries. Solidarity in the face of the hurricane is important-Lapin
glynis has posted a diary over at dKos and I think it’s a great idea.
Recently some Democrats in Congress have chastised Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, saying that he does not speak for the party.
We the undersigned have a simple message we would like to convey to you:
Howard Dean Speaks For Me
And, we respectfully request that you refrain from public criticism of your fellow Democrats and that you begin to speak for us as well
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
There have been more then enough Dems saying that Dean doesn’t speak for the party – this is our chance to let then know he does speak for many us.
UPDATE[2005-6-11 1:25 by sgilman] You can see the total number of signatures here. Right now it’s at 370.
UPDATE[2005-6-11 2:20 by sgilman] The count is up to 585 signatures.
I did get Glynis’ permission to post the diary. Be sure to pass along any mojo to the rightful owner.
for helping to spread the word sgilman. I signed the petition and probably wouldn’t have otherwise.
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Done!
It said 288 when I did it. I hope we can get more than that!
I’m in. #527 as of 11:30 PM PDT
Awesome! I was bummed when I saw that, I still can’t beleive it’s not in the thousands. I’m going to Blog it so it climbs the blogdex and also putting it on my del.icio.us tags so it shows there also.
Here’s a direct link to the petition for the KosPhobic:
http://www.petitiononline.com/Dean/petition.html
I’m number 1548…
I sent it to about 15 friends of mine across the country.
Watching the DNC Agenda meeting on CSpan this morning. DO IT, DEAN!
#318
sgilman, would you mind updating your diary in a few hours with a total?
I’ll be sure to update the total before I log off for the night.
n/t
Incredible, I was there for less than 2 minutes and an additional 20 mpeople had signed! Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the lowdown. I made sure to sign it.
I think I was #255.
My sweetie and I just signed up…petition sigs up to 507…….YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!
Where’s the petition that says “Dean does NOT speak for this Democrat”? That’s the one I’d sign.
Alan
Maverick Leftist
n/t
Good idea…but I’m too much of a slacker, lol. But my point still stands: this would carry a lot more weight if it were a referendum rather than a petition. Dean showed in 2003 that he had a bunch of ardent followers who could make a lot of noise, but it didn’t add up to much in 2004 when it counted.
Alan
Maverick Leftist
Sorry, I completely missed it. It sounded to me like you were saying “I don’t agree with what Dean is doing, and I would rather my congresscritters would just continue the status quo and the Democrats should just fight among themselves instead of differentiating themselves from the Republicans and fighting them.” Doesn’t sound very maverick to me.
I think you’re right in that Dean does have a lot of supporters who can make a bunch of noise, and whatever the reasons for him losing in the primaries in 2004, he’s now in a position where he can energize those supporters to do something to actually change things in this country rather than just continue to kowtow to the theocrats.
Nice to see you here. Always glad to hear your voice. Seriously.
Merci, lapin (I’m assuming you’re a French rabbit, no?) 🙂
If you like my “voice”, it’s in full roar tonight on a couple diaries over there ————–> (I’ll letcha guess which ones <g>)
Alan
Maverick Leftist
Please don’t forget that there is also a donations page for “We’ve got Dean’s back”.
I have an account setup right now at the DNC right here called We’ve got Dean’s back.
So far, there have been 130 donors, $3,372 collected so far plus Ben said there have been 12 contributors that donated $321.07 at the ACTBLUE account in the past couple of days as of yesterday afternoon.
I am working with ACTBLUE to get a new account setup but the bat will not be up until Monday. Meanwhile, I encourage people to donate to We’ve got Dean’s back. I will ask ACTBLUE if they can also setup the link to your petition so that we can have people sign it while they donate.
I forgot. I am signature no. 574. Now I am off to DU and MyDD to spread the word on the petition and let them know how much money we have collected so far.
OOOOHHH. I forgot. I listened to Majority Report last night and I heard them mention the donations page but they said $2,000 have been collected so far. We got to let them know too.
Now I know I’m in the right place here. Anywhere that Lapin can elevate posts to the front page is somewhere I’m gong to like.
I’ve signed it and posted on my blog!!
This is terrific! Thanks for setting up this petition
I love elegant wording that gets right to the point and coalesces a lot of ambient, unarticulated feelings I’ve had about the Dems.
I think Dean’s just what the doctor ordered after having Dems like these as the visible elder statesmen:
One of the Democrats who has been critical of Dean, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., yesterday reiterated his belief that Dean’s comments have been inaccurate and unhelpful to Democrats. (09/10/05 Boston Globe)
Biden’s such an ass. Even knowing it’s a display for unity he just can’t help troping towards the cameras.
As of 8:20 AM ET.
done!
Just signed it. The count is up to 1136!
Up to 1476 as of 7:53am PDT.