Article on John Sasso (a few months old, put provides some background)

[Doosh]

who may or may not be running things, somehow I doubt Mary Beth is still in control. It's either Sasso or Lockhart right? We've also got to get Carville and Wilhelm involved in some capacity, I know you don't want a "too many chiefs" thing but it's all hands on deck, the best dem strategists have to come to kerry's aide.

April 05, 2004
The Return of John Sasso
ROGER SIMON COLUMN
APRIL 5, 2004

WASHINGTON - - By quietly naming John Sasso to be general election chairman of the Democratic National Committee, John Kerry has served notice that he is no longer afraid of the Michael Dukakis curse.

Kerry does not exactly go out of his way to remind people he was Dukakis’ lieutenant governor in Massachusetts. The official biography on Kerry’s website says merely, “In 1984, after winning election as Lieutenant Governor in 1982, Kerry ran and was elected to serve in the United States Senate….”

You can’t exactly blame Kerry for not mentioning Dukakis’ name. The Dukakis 1988 presidential campaign is not considered one of the high points in Democratic history and few in the party today want to be cursed as a “Dukakis liberal.”

But by naming Sasso to a very important job at the DNC, Kerry is signaling he really isn’t worried about labels or curses. Because few people were as closely identified with Michael Dukakis as John Sasso.

Come with me down memory lane: In September, 1987, Dukakis was running for president and Sasso was not only his campaign manager but a person Dukakis considered “like a brother.”

http://www.rogersimon.com/archive/004605.html