Reply #10: Daily Kos went in detail about him last week: [View All]

[JohnnyRingo]

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Simon Rosenberg is quickly shaping up to be everone's second choice for DNC chairmanship, a fact that may prove useful if the battle for the job gets tied up between the Dean and anti-Dean factions.
While there are plenty of profiles of the man floating around, the best is still this July Matt Bai piece in the New York Times Magazine.

Ambitious and hyperarticulate, Rosenberg once worked for the Democratic Leadership Council, the centrist group that laid the groundwork for Clinton's '92 campaign, before splitting off and forming his own political-action committee in 1996. Although he made his name in the party as a centrist New Democrat, Rosenberg, now 40, saw opportunities for his organization -- and, naturally, for himself -- in the increasingly confrontational slant of the party's base during the Bush administration. He didn't agree with all of Howard Dean's positions, but Rosenberg was among the first centrist Democrats to embrace Dean, sensing early on the potential of Dean's following. While the Democratic Leadership Council attacked Dean for his angry brand of populism, Rosenberg looked for a way to tap into the genuine passion among Democrats for a more creative, more defiant kind of politics. He talked to donors around the country, like Andy Rappaport, who were angry at the Clintonesque rhetoric that obscured the sharp ideological divide between them and the Rush Limbaugh right; they were desperate for new policy ideas and for a more aggressive, coherent strategy.

More at daily Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/6/112326/490