WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean's army of supporters includes a lot of "lance corporals," twentysomething recent college grads, but it has a few field marshals too.
Prominent among them: Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the union which has put the power of its more than 1.4 million members behind Dean.
In an interview Tuesday in his Washington office with MSNBC.com, McEntee, a street-smart veteran who started his career as a Democratic assistant ward leader in Philadelphia in the 1960s, explained the enduring clout of his union in an age of Internet fund-raising and Meetup.com.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3737305/
Here is a really good article about the Dean campaign.