'Netroots' guru Joe Trippi will help lead Ro Khanna's campaign

[KamaAina]

http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_28241329/netroots-guru-joe-trippi-will-help-lead-ro-khannas-campaign

Joe Trippi, the veteran Democratic operative who helped pioneer "netroots" campaign methods while managing Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid, will be the lead strategist for Ro Khanna's second effort to unseat Rep. Mike Honda.

Trippi's long history in Silicon Valley includes attending San Jose State in the 1970s, as well as working on local campaigns such as Susan Hammer's and Ron Gonzales' successful San Jose mayoral races and Jerry Estruth's unsuccessful 1996 congressional race. But he's best known for creating online campaign strategies that let Howard Dean organize volunteers and raise money so effectively in 2003 and 2004. Trippi left Dean's campaign in an early 2004 shakeup, but his online methods and tools have since become standards.

Khanna casts himself as a high-tech, new-ideas alternative to an eight-term incumbent he says is out of step with the district's needs. The Khanna campaign is not unlike the insurgent one Trippi ran for Democrat Seth Moulton, who unseated nine-term Rep. John Tierney, D-Massachusetts, in 2012....

Khanna, 38, lost to the 73-year-old Honda last year by 3.6 percentage points after a nationally watched and often-acrimonious campaign that pitted young against old and labor against business in the heart of Silicon Valley. The 17th Congressional District is the first district outside Hawaii where Asian-Americans make up a majority of voters.

Just go away, already!

[msongs]

1. the same Joe Trippi dumped/fired by Howard Dean? seems so nt

[KamaAina]

2. That's the one.

[MADem]

3. There was a time when he could do no wrong, at least here on DU.

What a difference a decade makes!