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The Return of Howard Dean
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 01, 2009 02:00pm |
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| News Date | Monday, June 1, 2009 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Attendees at this week’s gathering for progressive activists in Washington, the “America’s Future Now” conference, aren’t getting an appearance from President Obama.
But they are hearing from Howard Dean.
As Congress prepares to take up health care reform efforts in earnest, Dr. Dean is reemerging as a major voice inside the Democratic Party -- playing an inside-outside game that’s might make him to health care what former Vice President Al Gore is to the environment.
Suddenly, Dean is everywhere, talking up the issue that first animated his presidential candidacy in 2004 (though would later become subsumed by the war in Iraq).
He’s out with a new e-book next week offering his “prescription” for health reform. He’s just been named chairman of the Progressive Book Club, a new idea factory for the political left.
Through the Democracy For America network that grew out of his campaign, he’s traveling the country to tout health care reform, with today’s appearance at the progressive conference the latest attempt to fire up the grassroots.
Last week alone, he appeared at town-hall style meetings in Denver, Des Moines, and Wilmington, Del., to talk about the importance of major health care reform. That's on top of Web chats, robo-calls, and conference calls with key constituency groups. |
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