Reply #12: Original source: "Howard Dean is going up on the air in Austin, Texas."

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You Are the First to Know
As promised, you here on the blog are the first to know.

We weren't able to do this until you came through for Howard Dean. From Friday the 25th of July through Monday the 29th, 9,621 Americans joined together to demonstrate the power of the grassroots-- and raised over $508,000 in the Dean Team vs. Bush-Cheney Challenge. Your tremendous accomplishment has enabled us to do this.

Beginning Monday, Howard Dean is going up on the air in Austin, Texas. In a television commercial recorded late this week, he will invite the people of Texas to join us in building the great grassroots campaign of the modern era-- whether by signing up online or using our new toll-free number, which will be revealed on Monday.*

The people of Texas know George W. Bush better than anyone. Throughout this campaign, Howard Dean has been standing up to George W. Bush, and what better place to stand up against what George W. Bush has done to the economy and our nation than in Bush's home state of Texas.

When we've said we're building a grassroots campaign in all 50 states, we've meant all 50 states. You have enabled us to bring Howard Dean's message to Texas. Help spread the word to the rest of the country by forwarding this blog entry, and ask your friends in every state to join us.

We'll have the commercial on the web at the right time, sometime over the weekend. There will be more coming. But on Monday, Howard Dean goes up on the air in Texas.

Update 6:27 pm: *Please note that the ad doesn't go up until Monday, which is when the 1-866 number will be fully operational. Until then, we've taken the number down. You were the first to see it. Thanks!
(This entry originally posted at 5:34 pm.)

Posted by Mathew Gross at 07:34 PM
http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/000904.html

How the Tale Was Told
We told you that you, our supporters on the blog, would be the first to know about the plan. So why did we tell you tonight, three days before the commercials went up? Because Roger Simon of US News & World Report, a great investigative reporter, figured out the secret. Kudos to Roger! But we wanted you to hear it from us first.

Posted by Mathew Gross at 09:30 PM
http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/000907.html