Posted on 11/10/2008 11:38:01 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Dean To Step Down as DNC Chair
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who rose to national prominence during a failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, will not seek a second term as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, clearing the way for a loyalist of President-elect Barack Obama to be named to the soon-to-be vacant post.
The news of Dean's departure after a single four-year term in office was first reported by the Huffington Post's Sam Stein and confirmed to The Fix by a Democratic Party source.
"At this point he has said that he doesn't intend to run again," said a DNC source granted anonymity to speak candidly. "He has said so publicly for a while. He has not said what he will do next."
Dean's tenure at the DNC has been marked by a sharp disconnect between the grassroots of the party and the operative class.
Grassroots -- and netroots -- activists, who propelled Dean's presidential bid and then helped get him elected as chair of the party in early 2004, love the former Vermont governor and credit his chairmanship of the DNC with the rebirth of Democrats as a national party. (Dean's pioneering accomplishment of his four years in office is the 50-state strategy, a plan that put staff and organizations on the ground in every state in the country.)
Dean was not as well received among members of the permanent political class in Washington, many of whom dismissed him as a lightweight -- particularly on the fundraising front.
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I think we have Obama’s Surgeon General.
Great place for him to retire into silence....
The next DNC Chair will inherit 0’s money machine, and 0 wants to keep it in friendly hands.
I’m glad he’s leaving. He must feel really smug after he got his revenge on Republicans for dealing him defeat during his presidential bid.
Wow, even when the DNC wins, they throw out the guy that showed Obama how to misuse the internet for fund-raising.
Sec Health & Welfare...........
Hello William Ayers, new DNC chair.
Got any ideas who’ll take Howie’s place?
Penny Pritzker or Tony Rezko
YEEAAAH!
Future Secretary of Health and Human Services.
0’s money machine was named George Soros. It will be his guy in the chair.
dean’s turn to go under the bus...
Dean comes from Vermont. How many black people do you think he as ever had to work with? Something tells me that the DNC is going to look like a Black Panthers recruiting station on steroids and Dean wants no part of it.
As much as I detest Howard Dean, the next RNC chairman can learn a lot from what Dean did. He de-emphasized the establishment and empowered the grassroots. He pledged to run spirited campaigns in all 50 states, even in red states and in red districts. He also revolutionized the DNC’s communication apparatus, fully utilizing the new media.
I would like to see the next RNC chairman take some of these steps.
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