Texas folks, here is a summary of Dean's Austin rally today. [View All]

[madfloridian]

I found this at the blog by the lady who got to introduce him. I am sure she will not mind if I share some of it. I think this is part of the 21st Century Candidate training as well as for the campaign of Richard Morrison who is running against DeLay. David Van Os is running for a judgeship, and he only accepts donations of $10.

SNIP.."This has been the most amazing weekend! We've been asked to submit a blog post for tomorrow so there will be more details then. But let me just say this - the workshop was wonderful. I've never seen a group of people so pumped up as our group was today when they left. Our trainers were all great (or so I'm told 'cause I didn't get to actually see much of them in action). Tom Hughes was a particular hit. (Tom is the field director for DFA, previously with the Gore campaign).

The Governor's appearance today was nothing short of awesome. Over 1,000 people showed up in 95 degree weather and 95% humidity to hear him, along with Richard Morrison, David Van Os and a slew of local candidates. Of course, for me, the highlight was getting to introduce HD. He was so gracious in thanking me, and then he thanked our DFT steering committee members individually .....".

And boy, was he fired up! The Gov loves coming to Texas and we love having him. While he spent a lot of time talking the current campaign....... he also talked a lot about the future.

I have to say that we really lucky to have Tom Hughes here. In addition to being an incredibly nice guy who tells a good story, he took a look at how we were going to set up for the rally today and totally redesigned it for us. We learned a lot from Tom even outside of the workshop!

We're all exhausted here, but happy. You don't often get to see such hard work pay off in such a big way. And get see the Gov to boot!

Posted by Fran in Austin at August 23, 2004 12:10 AM