PunxForDean

[TeacherCreature]

I went to the blog to see the Menendez endorsement and I found the following:

http://www.blogforamerica.com/

To understand the Howard Dean phenomenon, you have to break out of the usual paradigm of candidates running for office and look beyond to people like Kimmy Cash. Cash is a 28-year-old punk from Ontario, California, who first heard about Howard Dean at an anti-war rally back in February. After meeting him in late September – by crashing the VIP section of a Dean event at Union Station – she decided he was the coolest politician she had ever come across, and determined right there she was going to help him become the next president of the United States. Her mission: To politicize America’s two million or so punks, most of whom are young, disaffected, and would never normally dream of voting for anyone. The way she figured it, if America’s punks got their act together... they would be numerous enough to tip the entire balance of national politics.
The night she got home from Union Station, she set up an unofficial website called punxfordean.org. Soon, she was spending her weekend nights roving the punk venues of the Inland Empire... to distribute flyers and spread the word. And the message caught on. Spectacularly.

Three months on, she has a staggering 13,000 volunteers in all 50 states, Howard Dean tattoos on both her forearms, and is busy planning a nationwide series of concerts to get both bands and punk fans committed to the cause....

Mike Meurer, a veteran volunteer on many political campaigns who runs his own telecommunications and marketing company, remembers his amazement when a volunteer coordinator from campaign headquarters in Vermont came out for a couple of months, and told members of the L.A. For Dean chapter to stop asking him for campaign strategy. “You don’t understand,” the coordinator, Aaron Holmes, told them: “You are the campaign.” “It was the most stunning statement I’ve ever heard uttered by any campaign,” says Meurer. “But that is the mentality.”

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This is great and congratulations to this young woman for having such determination and purpose. She could teach some of her elders a thing or two.

[TeacherCreature]

1. Here is the website for PunxforDean

Take a look.

http://www.punxfordean.org/

[Cha]

2. That's so Cool!

Bless their little Punx

[CalebHayes]

3. This is better!

www.punkvoter.com

[T Roosevelt]

4. What a breath of fresh air

considering all the Dean-bashing threads today. They are out in force, and it is really very tiring...

[MercutioATC]

5. And they have a link to register to vote on the main page...

like the music or not (I do...a lot of it, at least) that's a great thing. Anything we can do to encourage new voters is important.

[RetroLounge]

6. Very nice!

Thanks for the link.