Box lunch with Dean in Miami tomorrow...$20

[madfloridian]

Glad to see he is still having many of these small donor events when he is in town for big donor ones. Sounds like fun.

"The Miami-Dade Democratic Party in conjunction w/ DFA is hosting a box lunch with DNC Chairman Howard Dean on Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 at 12:15PM at Parrot Jungle, 1111 Parrot Jungle Trail, Miami (Watson Island), FL 33132.

Cost is only $20 pp to cover cost of the event and lunch. (Parking will be at a reduced rate of $5)

Here is a unique chance to meet our National Chair, to hear to him and give him your thoughts, too!

Click here to purchase tickets (please put "Dean Event" as "employer"): Purchase Tickets"

http://www.miamidadedemocrats.com/events.asp?EventId=249&nDate=5%2F1%2F2007&"

[Beaverhausen]

1. Are you going?

I'd love to have lunch with Dean!!!

[madfloridian]

2. Would love to go....

but too far. I had heard about the Miami private fundraiser, but today was the first I had heard about the box lunch. Long ways to travel on short notice.

[JetCityLiberal]

3. My very Liberal and Progressive business associate

has just moved to South Florida, I will send her this.

Trying to send more of us Lefties your way mad!

If I haven't mentioned it lately :yourock:

[JetCityLiberal]

4. Dupe, apologies

but you still rock.

[madfloridian]

5. Hey, thanks....Florida needs all the Lefties it can get.

I hear South Florida is more liberal than Central Florida, and far more liberal than North Florida.

Central Florida is very moderate, hard to get a Democratic foothold here. I have said it before and will again....here the Democrats are often just like Republicans who are moderate. Trouble is too many Dems here fall for the wedge issues to cater to all the Southern Baptists here.

Hey, don't get me started.

[DFW]

6. I haven't had lunch with Howard, but

I've had dinner with him lots of times. It's worth it if you can go.
He's always engaging, never dull, and ALWAYS says what he really thinks.

Maybe it got him into hot water as a presidential candidate, but as DNC
chairman, it makes him THE most interesting guy to listen to in DC.

If you can make it, definitely go!

[madfloridian]

7. What the party never understood...

was that his outspoken nature was what we needed to start the change.

What they still don't get is that it is still going on.

Whenever he said something so true that is was alarming...the Democrats sent people out to say he did not speak for them. That is going to turn out to be the point that started a lot of stuff rolling.

Our own party made it clear that being outspoken was not acceptable then.

Odd thing is, it is now becoming acceptable.

I was one who did not want him to be chairman. I very much approved of the role Liberal Oasis suggested for him...SAKAL

http://www.liberaloasis.com/archives/110704.htm#110904
(posted Nov. 9 12 AM ET)
TO: Howard Dean

FROM: LiberalOasis

SUBJECT: DNC Chair

LiberalOasis hears that you are interested in being chair of the DNC.

Don't do it.

To be sure, you'd be great at it. But so would others, like Simon Rosenberg
and Donna Brazile.

And there's another job that's currently open that desperately needs to be
filled.

It doesn’t pay anything, but only you can do it.

It's a job that has never had a formal title associated with it, but let's
give it one:

Strategist and Ass-Kicker At-Large, or SAKAL for short.

He talks about Bill Kristol acted as SAKAL for his party in the early 90s.

Let's not kid ourselves Howard. You would have a tougher challenge than
Kristol did as a SAKAL.

The '04 Dems have a longer way to go than the '92 GOPers.

But in the primaries, when no other Dem knew how to fight, you
single-handedly showed them how, combining a feisty attitude with creative
messaging.

Soon, others saw it working, and then everyone sounded like Dean.

In turn, Bush's poll numbers were dragged down to Earth, and we had
ourselves a race.

You could play that role again. We need you to play that role again.

Because no one else in the party with any sort of stature knows how to do it. On the other hand, if you were DNC chair, you will not have the necessary freedom to push the envelope on message and strategy.

Anything edgy out of your mouth would ricochet throughout the right-wing
media machine, twisted and distorted, and spin out of control.
Already wimpy Dems would go into meltdown mode, calling for your head. You'd never last.

But we need you to last.

...."if you assumed the rarified mantle of the SAKAL, you would have the
greatest impact by far."

I think he would have been a very good SAKAL, but he is doing a good job now. I remember when Reid and Pelosi called him in and said Howard you will take your cues from us. Remember that?

I see some fighting spirit more than I did in 04. A lot of it is coming from the voices that he told "you have the power."

[madfloridian]

8. He is to speak at an immigration rally later. Not much detail.

http://miami-dade-dems.blogspot.com/2007/04/its-howard-dean-tuesday.html

"It’s a Howard Dean Tuesday

Democratic power and immigration are the two themes of the Democratic Party leader’s day in Miami.

At lunch with Democratic activists, Gov. Dean will discuss the strong leadership Democrats are offering for America’s future. This power comes from keeping our promises, as the Democratic leadership in Congress has shown in a strong measure to hold the president accountable on Iraq. We know the people are behind us. They voted us in. And now we want to work in a bipartisan fashion to achieve the comprehensive immigration reform the American people want.

Where to see this? Join Howard Dean and many of your Democratic friends at noon for a simple lunch at Parrot Jungle. Later there’s a rally at the Government Center in downtown Miami for immigration reform."