news.yahoo.com - 1/8/2009
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WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama appeared Thursday at Democratic Party headquarters with his hand-picked incoming chairman, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine , but his predecessor, outgoing chief Howard Dean , was nowhere in sight. Dean, who has clashed with Obama's top aides and Democratic leaders ...
politico.com - 1/9/2009
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politico.com —
When President-elect Barack Obama introduced Kaine at party
headquarters Thursday afternoon, Dean was 7,023 miles and seven
time zones away.
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Lei-off: Obama snubs Dean
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/10/2009
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latimesblogs.latimes.com —
This is no Friday joke. Word has just
been received at The Ticket that President-elect Barack Obama
sent out an actual e-mail today without asking for more money from tired donors. No, really. The N.Y. Times' Katharine Seelye recently ...
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Breaking: Obama sends national e-mail with NO plea for ...
bloomberg.com - 1/7/2009
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bloomberg.com —
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Virginia Governor Tim Kaine
has a Harvard Law School degree, has twice won
statewide office, and is fluent in Spanish. It’s a recent line on his resume that may become an issue as President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head ...
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Kaine Heads Group Offering Donors Access to Governors ...
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Obama tells Dean he's not welcome at event introducing new DNC chair
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... in what will ostensibly mark the beginning of a new era for the party and the committee. Noticeably absent from the affair will be the individual who symbolized the old regime. Former Gov. Howard Dean is not on the list of attendees for the event, a noticeable nonattendance for someone largely credited with revitalizing the Democratic Party ranks and contributing - whether politically or through his 50-State Strategy - to major electoral gains. In fact, AP reports that Obama's people told Dean he wasn't welcome: But Democrats with knowledge ...
Addressing Progressive Concerns
Open Left - Front Page —
... them worrying just as Harkin, Conrad and Kerry do, but there is another pattern emerging today that I find just as worrying: progressive concerns being intentionally ignored and / or snubbed by the transition. Here is the last line in the TPM article (more in the extended entry): When I asked if he [Senator Harkin] felt his concerns were heard during the meeting, he looked to the floor and slowly shook his head. It was almost forlorn.
Now, here is an AP source on the absence of Howard Dean at new DNC chair Tim Kaine's press event today ...
Howard Dean Snubbed by Obama
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... of the lack of respect accorded to the outgoing party chairman by the Obama team.. . A Dean admirer found some gallows humor in the doctor’s disappearing act: “He said he wanted to be in the cabinet,” joked this source. “So they stuffed him in the cabinet and locked the door.” Open Left: Howard Dean, an important figure for the progressive grassroots, appears to have been intentionally snubbed at Tim Kaine's press event. And from the AP: Democrats with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on the ...
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