NOTE: I'm not Megan Matson --- but I am a MMOBster!

This was just posted at DFA's blogforamerica.com...

Happy Mother's Day everyone!

I'm Megan Matson, mother of three, founder of Mainstreet Moms, and a Dean-powered citizen like you.

On this Mother's Day, I still believe what I believed when we launched The MMOB's Adopt-A-Swing-State voter registration campaign just one year ago.

It is the mothers who have a tangible, physical connection to a common future, because their children will be there. For all but the noodle-brains waiting for the Rapture (like Calgon) to take them away, policy based on looting and apocalypse just doesn't work for us. We didn't sign OUR children up for a nation-breaking fiscal debt, the end of science, the wrenching of truth, a government of meanies, and the beginning of planned perpetual war. These crackpots always go too far, which is a comfort. And the moms (and honorary moms) are pissed.

More below the fold, including a photo of Megan and the kids + a new MMOB action called Leave My Child Alone!...

In Jerome's "Cattle Call" thread, I made a reference to Donnie Fowler's plans for life after potentially losing the DNC Chair campaign, mentioning that the Sacramento scuttlebutt was that he would return to Silicon Valley --- a decision I perhaps overzealously likened to "cutting and running" from the Party.

As is his habit, Donnie didn't send an underling to MyDD to answer the charge. He answered it himself directly:  

 

What I wrote in reply is on the flip...

Update [2005-1-26 7:56:1 by Fiat Lux]: Ron Brownstein gets the MoveOn scoop in this LA Times piece that explains MoveOn's plan for "state-by-state endorsements from its nearly 3 million members."

Firmly planting its flag in the race as a prime mover to ramp up public interest and turn up the heat on the DNC, MoveOn is taking indirect democracy to a new level.

If you think MoveOn's involvement is a net positive in influencing DNC members (if not the mainstream media), then this obviously helps Howard Dean. But MoveOn's plans may pale in comparison to the other news mentioned in this article. And, if what Jerome surmises is true, this development could help put Dean over the top: More on the flip...

As Howard Dean draws closer to the distinct possibility of becoming DNC Chair, op-eds like this one from the Good Doctor remind us why we were so inspired to support him in the first place. I've read a lot of Dean stuff over the last few years, but this explication of his empowerment philosophy resonates with more power than ever before.

As he said to hundreds of supporters in Sacramento on Saturday, "I'm not much of a Zen guy, but I've learned that the best way to gain power is to give it away." Priceless. It's as if Dean has found his political/spiritual sweet spot --- the essential ethic that fuels our movement's campaign to revitalize and transform the Democratic Party and this country.

Read Dean's latest op-ed below the fold...

Update [2005-1-24 16:20:5 by Fiat Lux]: Several MyDD'ers and others are sending letters to Hillary. If you want to write a letter, please go to the bottom of this diary for several posted samples (and again: Be positive. No threats)

----- Per the request by Driving Votes to blog to MyDD...

"Some of you in the DNC may see us as barbarians at the gate. Some of us see ourselves as the cavalry. The truth is, we are fresh horses." --- Miles Kurland, a grassroots DFA activist speaking directly to a large group of DNC members at the DNC Western Regional Caucus, 1/22/05

"I asked a DNC member I know personally, what he thought about Dean's chances. He said there is really one main impediment and gave a very simple, direct suggestion for activists. He said, 'you need to apply tremendous pressure to Hillary.' I asked, 'Are you saying she's in the way?' He replied: "Yes!" --- EmilyD, from DailyKos account of conversation at DNC Western Regional Caucus, 1/22/05

By now, many of you probably have read several eyewitness accounts of the DNC Caucus in Sacramento on Saturday. You may also know about the rumblings behind the scenes (and now in Newsweek) that Hillary Clinton MAY make a power play to derail Howard Dean.

I attended the caucus and I'd like to make a few hopefully salient observations as well as rally Dean Democrats to action as we enter the stretch run of this campaign.

More below the fold...