{"id":3341,"date":"2005-01-11T09:29:26","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T14:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3341.html"},"modified":"2005-01-11T09:29:26","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T14:29:26","slug":"dean-to-seek-dnc-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dean-to-seek-dnc-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean to seek DNC chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the more anti-climactic moves in a while, Howard Dean will surprise absolutely no one today by announcing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/ALLPOLITICS\/01\/11\/dean.dnc\/index.html\">he will seek<\/a> the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The announcement is expected at around 1 p.m. Tuesday, the sources said. Dean is expected to inform DNC members of his decision first, before it is posted on his blog and sent out to supporters via e-mail, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>A bid by Dean has been expected, as he has been campaigning for the post for the past two months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a rule, when someone runs for a post for two months, that means they actually want the job. Nevertheless, Dean&#8217;s announcement will make it official.<\/p>\n<p>All indications are that Dean is probably the frontrunner for the job, particularly after picking up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/thehill\/export\/TheHill\/News\/Frontpage\/010505\/murtha.html\">John Murtha&#8217;s endorsement<\/a>, but I&#8217;m still pulling for <a href=\"http:\/\/gadflyer.com\/flytrap\/index.php?Week=200502#1367\">Simon Rosenberg<\/a>, though I could certainly live with a Dean\/Rosenberg, Figurehead\/Strategist kind of team.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, I&#8217;ve heard from a few sources that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=384231&#038;page=1\">efforts to encourage<\/a> Terry McAuliffe to stay on as DNC chair have been unsuccessful thus far. It&#8217;s almost certain at this point that the party will be electing a new chair next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the more anti-climactic moves in a while, Howard Dean will surprise absolutely no one today by announcing that he will seek the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. The announcement is expected at around 1 p.m. Tuesday, the sources said. Dean is expected to inform DNC members of his decision first, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}