''Dean Drops By''

"Yesterday, Howard Dean stopped in Seattle for a DNC fundraiser. In the elevator, after the brief breakfast talk by Dean, several of us agreed: Dean gets it. Dean is the right person to be Chair of the DNC at this time. He said it was time to reclaim the word "liberal" and reclaim our Democratic and Labor goals. And not only is it time to brand the Democratic Party, it is time to brand the Republican Party as well - as the party of deficits and deceit. We will be hearing a lot more from the DNC under Dean. He said that the DNC will be paying a minimum of four staffers in each state to do grassroots organizing, a welcome move that is likely to establish the preeminence of the national party over the local party. With Dean at the front of the room was Governor Gregoire, who talked about the importance of what we are doing as one of the only primarily Democratic state governments and how much other Democratic governors look to Washington State for leadership. Dean will be back in Seattle on June 5th for a much more public event. We'll share that information about it once we know the specifics."-from the post on Evergreen Politics.