Howard Dean to speak at Liberal Democrat Spring Conference

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Howard Dean to speak at Liberal Democrat Spring Conference

By Helen Duffett | Tue 17th February 2009 - 4:21 pm

Governor Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009, will be the guest speaker at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference in Harrogate, 6-8 March 2009.

Howard Dean was a frontrunner for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2004 when he spoke out against the Iraq war.

Howard set up Democracy for America which focuses on grassroots fundraising and training for local members.

As chairman of the Democrats Howard set up and executed the 50 State Strategy which targeted voters across the US, rather than concentrating on “swing” states. This became a vital part of President Obama’s campaign in the 2008 election.

Packed with policy debates, fringe events, training sessions and keynote speeches, interest in Spring Conference is greater than ever, but there’s still time to register.

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6 Comments

Andy Hinton 17th Feb '09 - 4:24pm

Sigh. Now I want to go to conference.

Hmm. Do I know anyone in Harrogate?
Helen Duffett 17th Feb '09 - 4:31pm

If you go there during Conference, you’ll know thousands of people 😉
Andy Hinton 17th Feb '09 - 4:39pm

Any of them want to accommodate me for free?
Andy 17th Feb '09 - 4:53pm

Finally, a reason to go to conference.

*Deaniac and proud of it*
Martin Land 17th Feb '09 - 7:23pm

Could this, should this… persuade me to go to Conference for the first time since 1976?

No.
Brian Robson 17th Feb '09 - 11:00pm

My favourite Howard Dean quote (about his first run for office in 1982):
“Every day I’d leave work and drive directly to the ward to knock on doors. I knew if I went home first I’d find all sorts of reasons not to go back and pound the pavement. You’ve got to screw up your courage to go and knock on strangers’ doors. Every day I’d bang on a hundred doors. I knocked on every door in the ward twice over the summer and fall. One woman answered the door and said, “You must really want this.” “Yes I do”, I replied”.