Howard Dean

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, the former Governor of Vermont who ran for president in 2004,  will be in Gloucester County next week to headline an Obama fundraiser.

The event will be hosted by Logan Township Mayor Frank Minor and Dr. Marie Young at the Gloucester County Dream Park next Friday night. 

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Check back next week to view my Convention Sketchpads from the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis.

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The fourth and final day of the Democratic National Convention will be called to order at 5:00 PM EST on Thursday, with a theme of "Change You Can Believe In."

The final day's events will take place at INVESCO Field at Mile High, where over 70,000 people are expected to attend.

Featured speakers will include Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D), former Vermont Gov. and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean (D), New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), U.S. Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D), former Vice President Al Gore (D) and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D).

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the Democratic presidential nominee, is scheduled to address the convention at 10 p.m. EST.

The full schedule is below.

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Barack Obama shakes Bob Menendez's hand at the Democratic National Convention in Denver tonight: MSNBC Photo
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, who did not get a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention, made it near the stage tonight -- he watched Joe Biden accept the vice presidential nomination from premium seats near the stage, in a box that included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean, and former Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle. After Barack Obama joined Biden on the stage, he made his way over and shook hands with the junior Senator from New Jersey.

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Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean has picked three New Jerseyans to serve on key committees for the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver: M.

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If you find yourself running for office in New Hampshire, and Bill Bradley calls and says he’s ready to endorse, maybe its best that you don’t take the call.  The Hall of Fame basketball player and three-term United States Senator from New Jersey has backed the wrong horse in the last three New Hampshire Democratic presidential primaries: Barack Obama in 2008, Howard Dean in 2004, and himself against Al Gore in 2000. Read More >

Former Neptune Mayor Michael Beson was PoliticsNJ.com's Politician of the Year in 2003.  Beson had become presidential candidate Howard Dean's state campaign manager in mid-2002, when Dean was polling in the single-digits and PoliticsNJ.com's Brian Murphy became the only political reporter in the state willing to meet with him during a June '02 visit to New Jersey.  By the end of 2003, Dean was the front runner for the Democratic nomination, and most of the state Democratic establishment, including Governor James E. McGreevey, were backing Dean. 

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DNC Chairman Howard Dean in Kenilworth this morning

 

When Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean starts listing the names of American cities in rapid succession, it’s difficult for the observer not to brace for what surely will be a war whoop exclamation point.

An old joke for Dean, but inevitable in packed houses where he faces core supporters. And while the former pump-up-the-volume anti-war Presidential candidate did rattle off locales where he believes Democrats can compete with the implementation of his 50-state strategy, there was no jump off the oratorical high dive as he addressed Union County Democrats this morning at the Kenilworth Inn.

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For now, Governor Jon Corzine has quietly asked Democratic party leaders to refrain from public endorsements in the race for the 2008 presidential nomination. But Corzine, unlike predecessors James E. McGreevey in 2004 (Howard Dean) and Christine Todd Whitman in 1996 (Bob Dole) and 2000 (George W. Bush), is unlikely to pressure County Chairmen and legislators to follow his own choice -- if he makes one at all. New Jersey Democrats, according to sources close to Corzine, will be free to pick their own candidate.

New Jersey appears to be set for a February 5, 2008 primary. The Senate has already passed a bill moving the date up from February 26, and Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts has said he will post the bill in the lower house sometime soon. Corzine has pledged to sign the bill.

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