First 12 candidates to get Dean's DFA support. Dean's Dozen.

I know one of them from Tampa. Way to go, Rob! There will be more, and this is how to get started. Supported incumbents will be listed soon.

http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/004432.html
The Dean Dozen are:

SNIP..."Mary Ann Andreas for State Assembly in California. The 80th Assembly District has some of the highest unemployment rates in California, so it's all about jobs for Mary Ann in her race against the Republican incumbent. www.andreasforassembly.com

Ken Campbell for South Carolina State House. A Dean inspired candidate! Oconee County has a chance to put a real community activist and small business owner to work with Ken Campbell. www.takebackoconee.com

Maria Chappelle-Nadal for Missouri State House. Maria has won the support of the grassroots in this race. Democracy for America is behind her in her campaign to take back the State House for Democrats. www.maria2004.com

Scott Clark, Mark Manoil & Nina Trasoff for the Arizona Corporation Commission. The Corporation Commission is a watchdog agency protecting consumers from fraud and corporate abuse. Clark, Manoil & Trasoff became politically active on the Dean campaign and are running as a ticket for the commission. If you live in Arizona and can help them get on the ballot, contact them by email here: corpcomm04@hotmail.com

Kim Hynes for State Representative in Connecticut. 28 Republican state representatives in Connecticut ran unopposed in the last election. We won't take our country back if we don't compete. Kim is doing her part. You too can get involved. http://kimhynes.smartcampaigns.com

Richard Morrison for United States House of Representatives from Texas. Want to get rid of Tom DeLay? Here's your chance. Morrison is hitting back at "The Hammer" by competing against him in the Texas 22nd. Join me and get involved in the fight today. www.richardmorrisonfordistrict22.com

Barack Obama for United States Senate from Illinois. In the race to regain control of the U.S. Senate, Democrats have few better chances to pick up a seat than in Illinois. DFA volunteers all over Illinois helped Obama win his primary, now it's time to help him win the general. Stay tuned: I will be on the trail with Barack soon. www.obamaforillinois.com

Rob MacKenna for Hillsborough County (Florida) Supervisor of Elections. Rob is a computer programmer and is fighting to add a voter-verifiable paper trail to the touch-screen voting machines in the largest swing county in the all-important state of Florida! www.rob2004.com

Monica Palacios-Boyce for Massachusetts State Representative. Inspired by my race for the White House, Monica launched her campaign for state representative when she learned that the Republican incumbent had faced no opposition in his last two elections. www.monicaforstaterep.com

Lori Saldana for State Assembly in California. After an upset victory in the primary, grassroots activists want Lori to win in her race for the environment, education, economy and community of San Diego. www.lorisaldana.com

Jeff Smith for United States House of Representatives from Missouri. Campaigning in a 10-way primary for the opportunity to fill retiring Representative Richard Gephardt's seat in Congress, Jeff is an articulate young progressive running an energetic grassroots field campaign that - with your help - could surprise the pundits. www.jeffsmith2004.com

Donna Red Wing for Colorado House District #25. After serving as the GLBT Field Advisor for the Dean for America campaign, Donna has returned to the mountains of Colorado to mobilize progressive activists in communities across her district. www.donnaredwing.com

This year the race for the presidency is unbelievably important. But beside our efforts to evict George W. Bush from the White House, we must expand the base of the Democratic Party by competing in tough races across the country. The Dean Dozen represent some of the bravest candidates in the nation. Democracy for America is proud to support them.

Sincerely,
Gov. Howard Dean, M.D.

Good job Dr. Dean!

at the top of the list. That pig Bonnie Garcia must go.

He did such a great job on the website during the campaign. He is the one who had the banner for Dean fly over a sports' event in Tampa.....can't remember which one it was.

Go Dr. Dean! Let's rev it up for Democracy!

The grassroots are heading out. We donated to Richard Morrison last week, will hit Rob this week. He is such great guy.

for this man's campaign. If Kerry can generate one tenth the devotion of Dean's grassroots he will win.

http://www.rob2004.com/
Rob MacKenna is a computer systems expert and business professional with extensive managerial experience. Rob is familiar with the problems presented by electronic voting systems that have no physical means to verify that the votes cast are actually the same as the votes counted.

As your Supervisor of Elections, Rob pledges to equip every voting machine in Hillsborough County with a paper record to insure the accurate counting of every vote

Vote For Rob: he will
Make Sure Your Vote Counts

There will be more coming soon.

cycle. I've volunteered for a Dem challenger in a neighboring Congressional district - a great candidate, the children's advocate, Patty Wetterling. (My congressperson is safe for Nov.) I haven't been so excited since I volunteered for Gov Dean.

Putting into practice the Dean lesson of committing time and effort to your beliefs.

Madfl, you must be happy to see your friend, Richard Morrison on Dean's initial list. I followed your lead and sent him a contribution too.

Greetings, fellow Deaniacs!

I just wanted to drop in and say how incredibly honored I am to be part of the "Dean Dozen". We're still holding our monthly DFA Meetups down here in Tampa (and I'm still hosting them!) and the grassroots are continuing to grow!

And thanks to everyone who has stopped by our campaign web site - don't forget to check out our campaign blog! I put up a post this morning giving some suggestions for ways people outside our area can help our campaign (in addition to tossing us a little cash, which we can certainly use - we've had over $600 come in the door in the last six hours, which we can *really* use!).

This campaign is so important, because we are one of just four counties in Florida who use a touch-screen vendor who is already selling an add-on printer that will allow us to implement a voter-verfied paper trail in our county. None of the current SOE's in those counties are in favor of a paper trail, so they have not asked to have the printers certified for use in the state of Florida. SOEs in the south Florida counties that *do* want a paper trail use a different vendor, and that vendor does not yet make a ballot printer. So this race is the best way to break the Florida logjam, because once one Florida county has a paper trail, it will be politically untenable for the Secretary of State here to continue to block the adoption of a paper trail in the rest of Florida's touch-screen counties. So even though this is a local race, it has state and national implications, and your support can really make a difference towards making a voter-verified paper trail a standard component of touch-screen voting, so we can make sure your vote counts!

Thanks again to DFA and Governor Dean - you are truly an inspiration!

Rob MacKenna
Tampa, FL
Rob is computer systems expert.

Thanks Dr. Dean for putting my soon-to-be Junior Senator on this list.

He looks like he has a great personality.

:thumbsup:

I just want to send out a huge "THANK YOU" to Governor Dean, everyone at DFA, and especially to all of YOU, the grassroots that make this movement grow. It's been an incredible day, from waking up this morning to discover I was one of the "Dean Dozen", hastily putting together a press release and a couple of blog posts, press interviews for articles that are supposed to run in each of tomorrow's local daily papers, a steady stream of donations coming in (over $1500 and still counting!), and over a hundred emails to answer once I got home from a campaign appearance this evening! (many donations not even counted yet.)

Since I started campaigning for Governor Dean last summer, I've learned that there are a lot of high points and a lot of low points out there on the trail. I have to tell you, this has been one of the most exciting and encouraging days ever (the day where we flew the "Dean" airplane banner over the Outback Bowl and the day I got to shake hands with the Governor were pretty hard to top, though!). I can't thank each of you enough.

Keep up the great work! To quote Paul Wellstone, "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and ORGANIZE!"

(Okay, so I've already messed up on the "early to bed" part - how am I supposed to sleep after a day like today???)

Rob MacKenna
Posted by Rob in Tampa at May 14, 2004 01:08 AM

AND.....If you have not visited Richard Morrison's website, you are missing a treat. He has a couple of ex Dean staffers who run his blog. They are getting some DeLay folks posting awful things, and it is amazing how they are handling it. A fun blog.

I myself am personally working on Jeff Smith's campaign. :)