Britain's GUARDIAN newspaper reports today that Dean has been hired to advise the Labour Party on organizing for next May's elections. These are critical: the Conservative Party leads in the polls.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/...
(Hey friends! Did Howard just get a contract that Car-vile was hoping for?)
The article says Dean was hired SPECIFICALLY because he has pioneered organizing tactics that are DIFFERENT from the Clinton tactics used in 1997 (which we know were engineered in part by Car-vile.) It appears that Labour has repudiated Car-vile's command-from-on-high methods, and plans to move to grassroots and netroots-style organizing.
"The Welsh, Scottish and local elections next year are our midterms," said Hazel Blears, Labour's chair. "It has to be done differently for us to carry on being successful ... We're looking at how [the Democrats] have upped their game."
Labour is particularly interested in the Democrats' style of targeting grassroots voters through low-key meetings in homes. "We want to look at their experience in campaigning, getting out the vote, holding house meetings where people can come together ... You don't want to transplant American politics, but there's a lot we can share," said Ms Blears.
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Ms Blears believes Labour can benefit from the tactics used so effectively by the chairman of the Democratic national committee. "Part of [their new success] is politics, but it's also about organisation," she said.
She also said Labour could benefit from the so-called "viral" tactics Mr Dean helped pioneer. "Politics is increasingly local and decentralised ... People go to people they trust for word-of-mouth recommendations. It's about like-minded people talking, with concentric circles of campaigning, rather than about a political message from the centre."
Well, well. Go Howie!!! TAKE THAT, CAR-VILE!!!
UPDATE It appears Howie stole one of Car-vile's clients. Car-vile's website lists his clients. They included Tony Blair (along with 12 other foreign heads of state or office holders.) http://carville.info/
But now, Labour has turned to Dean. Boy, this makes my day.