Dean Meet-Ups:

[dorktv]

Who is going and where is yours?

[Demobrat]

1. SF

There are several here.

[dorktv]

2. Neat...are you a host?

[Demobrat]

5. This time I am.

Haven't been before. (Just keep getting sucked in farther...and farther...and farther. I have a bad feeling my winter vacation's going to be in Iowa this year).

[dorktv]

6. It happens to all of us...I, for instance will be calling someone soon

to get directions to a place to spend the evening stapling little bags of candy to papers about Dean. Sigh.

[helleborient]

12. Hope to see you there...in Iowa!

The snow really can be beautiful...hehe

[Demobrat]

19. I'm from Chicago.

Escaped 25 years ago and only wild horses or Dean could drag me back there in January.

[MrJones]

3. Albany, NY area

We have *6* this month.
Albany
Schenectady
Troy
East Greenbush
Saratoga Springs
Glens Falls.

[dorktv]

4. Cool!

:toast: We are up to ten here in the Phoenix area.

[caledesi]

7. Tampa, FL - 4 different venues! We started way back in Mar w/ 8 peeps.

[dorktv]

8. Feb with five...and four are still heavily involved.

[Larkspur]

9. Norwich, CT

We have some intense local election battles the day before across Eastern CT and hope it doesn't depress turnout. Our non-candidates will be there, but hope our candidates will come.

[pruner]

10. NYC

there are 18 different venues here… I haven't decided which one I'm gonna go to yet.

[helleborient]

11. Bloomington/Normal, Illinois

We've been meeting since July. We've had our local Democratic congressional candidate as a guest and attracted union execs and precinct committeepeople to our meetups.

Our primary host is a college student, and I do a lot of behind-the-scenes grunt work. Purchasing buttons, bumper stickers, group e-mail, etc...and hopefully I'll be driving 4 people to Iowa in January!

[pruner]

13. I just got invited to a Dean press conference in NYC the day of the MeetUp

I'm not exactly sure what the press conference is about… the invite just says I'll get to stand with Dean to help celebrate how far we've come.

from the looks of it, it seems that only people who've previously volunteered are invited due to space limits.

anyway, I'm pretty psyched now.

[helleborient]

14. Yeah, I got that, too

Just wish I could be there.

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

15. I'm in Las Vegas and going

There are 2 happening in town.

Also, tomorrow night at midnight the Dean bus is coming to town. Zephyr Teachout will be there to get the bus some exposure and to give us flyers to hand out. Flyering at midnight...this should be fun!

[Oreegone]

16. Been Meeting since April

We really do have a Dean Machine now...wrote over 200 letters last week at our meeting alone, then people went home and wrote more.

[CMT]

17. Madison, Wi

now at four locations because it got so big. One is downtown, one on the Westside of town, and one on the Eastside of town and one in a suburb.

[Upfront]

18. I am.

Bay City Michigan. Home of the Michigan State Spartans, and some other tean around hear I can't remember.

[Egnever]

20. With bells on

looking forward to my first actually.

I have had work conflicts up till now and havent been able to make one yet. I cant wait.

[RogueTrooper]

21. London, England

We are the largest Dean Meetup group outside the US.

The majority of our group are ex-pat Americans however we do get dual-nationals, some locals and the occaisional vacationer.

www.deanforamerica.org.uk is our website.

[Rose Siding]

22. I just checked and found TWENTY locations in the Seattle area

I went to check for the closest one this month and sign up. At the "meet-up" site, 9 locations are listed. But on the "Get Local" page, there are 11 more! My most convenient is always on the local page.

Last month there were about 60 people there and I don't see how they could even be included in the "official" meet-up count.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

23. We have 3 this month

We are splitting our overflowing Meetup into 3, and reaching out to the southern part of our county where there is a large Latino population. I'm off to Kinkos this morning to make copies of our bilingual Meetup flyer. After my son's soccer game, I will head out to do some flyering.

When I step back for a second and realize how much of my free time I spend working for this campaign...it's amazing. And I know that there are so many more people doing so much more than I am. For free. Because we believe. How cool is that?