Joe Trippi
When I was at the Green Party convention in August, Joe Trippi was one of the keynote speakers. He was Howard Dean's national campaign manager. No small job, I must tell you.
He talked about the power of blogs, and bringing politics back to the people, with various emerging internet technologies. Really, it was a very nice speech. However, it left me wondering about something.
If all of this was great and wonderful, why isn't Howard Dean the President of the USA? Or why wasn't he even the Democractic nominee? John Kerry ran for President for the Democrats during the last election.
While I am certain Joe hs a lot of valuble insights to share, lessons learned, do's and do not's of a campaign, and so forth, how much should we absorb all of this? How do we know it will really work for the Green Party of Canada, and or various candidates in Canada? After all, it didn't seem to work for Howard Dean.
posted by GreenJoe @ 9:14 AM
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I was not only at the convention but part of a two day workshop with Joe. Trust me, he handed over a lot of tools that can help this party succeed. Part of the reasoning for Dean's failure in the States had a lot to do with an unseasoned (had never really campaigned) candidate. You cannot question the success of going from 432 known supporters and $100K in the bank to front runner for the Democratic nomination with 650,000 supporters and $59M in the bank (avg $77/donation) in 10 months without developing the right tools.
I have to disagree with Dean being unseasoned. He was a Governor when he ran for President. You need to be seasoned to run for Governor.
That was something that Joe talked about. Dean was a family physician who ran for Lt. governor and was made governor when the governor died in office. Even when he ran to keep the position, it was pretty much an uncontested position because, by that point, Vermont was seeing 90+% free medicare for senior and children. His first real contest for any position was to be the Presidential Nomination for the Democrats and he was making "rookie" mistakes (Joe described a few) though Joe also took the heat for making a few blunders as well (despite it being the 7th presidential campaign he worked on).
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