KEEPING THE TORCH BURNING
Normally my Sunday postings have to do with OUR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT. Today, I would like to address a topic just as near and dear to my heart….. GOVERNOR HOWARD DEAN IS OUR NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE…..
CHAIRMAN-GOVERNOR DEAN deserves this as no other person and his ORGANIZING EXPERTISE bears this out.
CHAIRMAN-GOVERNOR DEAN exemplifies COURAGE. He showed us this by creating DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA after his bid for president came to a close.
CHAIRMAN-GOVERNOR DEAN will be our best TEACHER, LEADER & MENTOR all in one feisty, aggressive package.
These things are what many of us needed at a time when we knew something dramatic needed to be done.
Our growing pains will be less because of CHAIRMAN-GOVERNOR DEAN'S CONSISTENT ATTITUDE, BELIEFS AND IDEALS.
This picture of then GOVERNOR DEAN and me was taken in Muscatine, IOWA, on Labor Day, September 1st, 2003. It was the first time I had met him, and the first time he had met me.
I was holding in my hand a newspaper article on the front of the New York Times about him. I showed it to him and said it was an excellent article. He signed it for me and told me the young woman who had written it was also there that evening and I should ask her to do the same.
It was a magical, warm summer evening with a sliver of a moon hanging in the western sky as he appeared in the backyard of a couple's lovely Victorian home and began to inspire and awe us.
HE CONTINUES TO DO THE SAME…….DEAN ON! AND ON! AND ON!
In the words of President John F. Kennedy, THE TORCH HAS BEEN PASSED TO A NEW GENERATION… Yes, it has, to a new generation of PROGRESSIVES.
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