Dean campaign buys 1978 Airstream that DUer Charlie Crystle was gonna buy

[pruner]

Charlie's thread asking for for donations:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=563964&mesg_id=563964


Dean campaign announcement:

Dean For America Calls the Grassroots To Action with a 1978 Airstream

BURLINGTON--Dean for America today announced that it was launching a six-week nationwide call to action. Blogger Zephyr Teachout will take to the roads, traveling in a restored 27-foot, 1978 Airstream bus--organizing, flyering and hearing the incredible stories of Dean supporters across the country.

The journey will take Zephyr, the campaign's director of Internet organizing and outreach, to more than 100 cities in over 20 states as she chronicles the stories of the greatest grassroots campaign presidential politics has ever seen. At each stop, Zephyr will be organizing supporters to travel to Iowa and New Hampshire as part of the campaign's effort to have 5,000 supporters canvas in each state in January.

"For months, we've been telling people to organize and to build their local networks, and now we're going to go out there with them and see the national campaign they've built," Campaign Manager Joe Trippi said.

"Each day, hundreds of Dean supporters across the country are organizing and holding outreach events in their local communities. We're going across America to hear their stories, learn what we can from their on-the-ground efforts, and spread Governor Dean's message far and wide," Teachout said.

At every stop, Zephyr will link up with local supporters to flyer, canvass, register voters, and talk with them about their efforts to build the campaign. She will be blogging daily from the road on the campaign's official weblog, www.blogforamerica.com. Ryan Davis, who will be accompanying Zephyr on the tour and videotaping the tour's experience, will be blogging on the Generation Dean blog, www.gendeanblog.com.

At each stop, Zephyr will also be urging the campaign's supporters to travel to Iowa and New Hampshire in January to canvass and provide get-out-the-vote.

Only the first week of the tour's itinerary is set; the remainder of the journey will be decided along the way, with input from grassroots supporters. People will be able to track Zephyr's progress -- and see the stories she's collecting -- on www.deanforamerica.com. The first week's itinerary includes:

October 27: Los Angeles Kickoff

October 28: Santa Barbara

October 29: Salinas, San Jose, and Oakland

October 30: Sacramento

October 31: Davis and San Francisco

Later tour stops will include Reno, Las Vegas, Flagstaff, Phoenix, Tucson, Las Cruces, Albuquerque, Roswell, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Crawford, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Jackson (Miss.), Atlanta, Orlando, Raleigh, Richmond, Washington, D.C., Baltimore and dozens of other cities and towns. The tour will conclude in Philadelphia, the nation's cradle of liberty, in mid-December.

Posted by Joe Rospars at 12:08 PM

http://blogforamerica.com/

[CMT]

1. Yes

I'm sure Dean did this just to piss off Charlie.

[pruner]

3. that's not what I was suggesting…

I wanted Charlie to see this, just so he knows that it's not available anymore.

I posted about it in the thread he started but I figured that one would get buried quickly.

[CMT]

6. I know

I was just kidding.

[GainesT1958]

2. They've got plenty of money...

Why don't they let Charlie have that one, and buy themselves a NEW one? It'd be ONE SMART GESTURE for the Doctor to do that, in my book!:D

B-)

[pruner]

4. you're kidding, right?

why should they waste money on a new bus when they can get this one for what seems like a song.

[w13rd0]

5. Wouldn't be keeping...

..in the spirit of being frugal with money...

[Demobrat]

7. Whew. Thanks goodness.

From your thread's title, I thought it was an airplane. No small planes for Dean! (We gave him that money, we get to tell him how to spend it).

[Melinda]

8. Looks like your title is wrong - This IS Charlie's Airstream & Dean is...

borrowing it for a six week tour. :)

http://www.charliecrystle.com/

October 23, 2003
Bus
3 PM Update: The cats out of the bag on who our "surprise celebrity" is with those who are going to be borrowing the campaign's bus for 6 weeks across the nation. We have $8.1k raised so far, almost there, help fill the Airstream's gas tank!

[pruner]

9. that's great

this is one of the few times I'm glad to be wrong.

go Charlie! go Dean!

[Hawkeye-X]

10. Big thumbs up to Dean and to Charlie Crystle!

:thumbsup:

Good luck men! You'll make us Dems very proud of both of you!

Hawkeye-X

[pruner]

11. I'm gonna contact the Dean campaign and ask them to plug Charlie

it seems like the right thing to do.

[srpantalonas]

12. thank you--we still need to bridge the gap.