Self-organizing Presidential campaign

[Peter or Esther]

Dear Doug,

Thanks for this enormous insight! We had been hoping to see Wes Clark
get some traction but Dean seems to be doing very well. We voted for him
to deny taking federal matching funds and then later sent him a donation
of $100. It feels great to support one who seems to understand what the
new options are. Let us watch the outworking together.

Warmly,
with appreciation
Peter and Esther Fisher
Asheville NC

Douglas D. Germann, Sr. wrote:

>Hi--
>
>Does anybody get Wally Bock's weekly newsletter? This week's has a mention
>of the material on the web sites of Kerry and Edwards, and then goes on to
>say:
>
> << Dean has that stuff, too. The writing is more emotional, though, and
> << there are more stories. The stories are about "official" campaign
>events,
> << and about locally organized meetups. And Dean's blog has more key
> << postings from folks who aren't officially part of the campaign.
>They're
> << just supporters.
> <<
> << "Just" supporters?  It turns out that the real difference between Dean
>and
> << everybody else is that he treats his supporters like a giant,
> << self-organizing staff of experts. The key to that is giving up control,
> << reversing the great political campaign trend of the last decade or so.
>
>But notice this a few paragraphs down:
>
> << The big news story of the past few days has been Dean's decision to
>forego
> << federal matching campaign funds.
> <<
> << Dean made the decision to forego matching funds after hearing from his
> << supporters.  They used all the technology resources available to get
>all
> << the participation they could. The result was a decision where
>supporters
> << had real input.  That's powerful stuff.
>
>Yup, Wally, those of us who have experienced OST know how powerful
>participation can be. It is a wonderful day when the politicians start
>seeing it too....
>
>(Wally's newsletter can be seen at http://www.mondaymemo.net/ . I think it
>is a good one.)
>
>                              :-Doug. Germann
>
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