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"Restless to Win"
Howard Dean political cartoon.
… Just as Kerry and other wannabes gear up for Labor Day events, Dean counters again with another headline-grabbing, money-raising gimmick. Who wants to bet Dean won’t raise $1M during his five-day “Sleepless Summer Tour” – or miss his other goals? Excerpt from AP report from Montpelier, VT: “Howard Dean’s Democratic Presidential campaign kicks off a high-profile national tour this weekend that aims to raise $1 million in five days. Up to now the campaign has described its ‘Sleepless Summer Tour’ as an opportunity to take Dean’s message to large crowds in states that are important early in the nominating season. But there’s always been a fund-raising component to the event, too, with at least three formal fund-raisers planned at stops along the way. The campaign announced yesterday that it is going to make the tour a multi-media event supported by fund-raising over the Internet. ‘We can’t let George W. Bush continue to rack up millions while the American people are left out in the street,’ campaign manager Joe Trippi said in an e-mail message to supporters. The Dean campaign has become adept at attracting supporters from among the technology-savvy Web users. They have contributed by the thousands through his campaign Web site and a graphic image of a baseball bat has become their rallying cry. Dean said during a campaign stop Thursday in Derry, N.H., that raising money in small increments from a lot of people via the Internet was particularly important to his campaign. ‘Something like 93,000 people gave us money,’ he said. ‘The way you beat the President... is you bring in 3(million) to 4 million people who give you $80.’ As they have done twice before this summer, Trippi and his staff have posted the bat on their Web site to serve as a yard stick measuring how close they are to their fund-raising goal. ‘The only way to compete with Bush’s ability to raise so much money from so few is if millions of Americans come together and contribute what they can to Howard Dean,’ Trippi said. Trippi already has said the campaign expects to match its second-quarter success, when it raised $7.6 million. Although the campaign hasn’t said it, several staff members have suggested that the goal is much higher than that. The current fund-raising quarter ends on Sept. 30 and ability to raise money has become a key measure in a campaign’s viability. The Sleepless Summer Tour is one of the ways that the Dean campaign intends to build excitement about the campaign again and reinforce its message. ‘While he’s down in Crawford on vacation we’re going to be talking to a lot of people in America who are having a sleepless summer because they lost jobs, they’re worried about the economy,’ Trippi said in a recent conference call. A couple of the stops on Dean’s tour will follow closely visits by the President, such as the Northwest.”