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To: Neeka who wrote (100196)	2/13/2005 2:30:36 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793755

We shall see. Dean raised oodles of money (which he promptly spent) from little donations being the first to use the internet. I maintain that the reason a lot of people gave him money is cause they didnt want Washington INSIDERS getting elected, and saw Dean as an exciting outsider. Now he will have to raise money for the Democratic Elite which seems to me to have turned off much of the country. To make matters worse the large contributors consider Dean a JOKE and are unlikely to come through. So, Democratic party is liable to lose BOTH ENDS of the spectrum. jdn

To: Neeka who wrote (100196)	2/13/2005 5:05:43 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793755

Trippi was Dean's campaign manager when he did most of it. I was reading reporter's blogs about him back then. aether.com In this link Trippi talks about Silicon Investor as well as others: ragingbull.lycos.com from Amazon The Revolution Will Not Be Televised : Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything by Joe Trippi "I WAS BORN right when everything started going to hell.. About the Author Joe Trippi worked on his first presidential campaign for Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 1980. His work in presidential politics continued with the campaigns of Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt, and most recently, Governor Howard Dean.Trippi has worked on more than one hundred campaigns and has helped elect city attorneys and governors, mayors and senators. In the 1990s, Trippi's lifelong fascination with technology led him to work with a number of high-tech companies, including Wave Systems, Progeny Linux Systems, and Smart Paper Networks. He currently heads the multimedia consulting firm Trippi and Associates. Trippi appears regularly on MSNBC as an election analyst and commentator and has been profiled in GQ, Fast Company, The New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine. The father of three, he lives with his wife, Kathleen Lash, and their terrier, Kasey, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Product Description: When Joe Trippi signed on to manage Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, the long-shot candidate had 432 known supporters and $100,000 in the bank. Within a year, Trippi and his energetic but inexperienced team had transformed the most obscure horse in the field into a front-runner, creating a groundswell of 640,000 people and raising more money than any Democrat in history -- more than fifty million dollars -- mostly through donations of one hundred dollars or less. This is the story of how Trippi's revolutionary use of the Internet and an impassioned, contagious desire to overthrow politics as usual grew into a national grassroots movement and changed the face of politics forever. But it's also more than that. It's about how to engage Americans in real dialogue, how business leaders, government leaders, and anyone else can make use of the most revolutionary idea to come along since man first learned to light a fire. No ... not the Internet. Or computers. Or telecommunications. Democracy. For those who thought the Dean campaign ended with a screaming speech in an Iowa ballroom, this book is a wake-up call. Joe Trippi explains how -- right now -- Internet democracy is transforming every aspect of American life by evenly distributing power. He reveals innovations that are on the horizon, which companies are poised to become first-movers in this new era, and which are in danger of being left behind. From his behind-the-scenes look at Dean's shocking rise and fall to his "seven inviolable, irrefutable, ingenious things your business or institution or candidate can do in the age of the Internet that might keep you from getting your ass kicked but then again might not," Joe Trippi offers an inspiring glimpse of the world we are becoming. And he shows how power, in the hands of all of us, changes everything. amazon.com