Another Dean Milestone! -- 100,000 signed up for Meetup!

[Khephra]

:party: time!

Incredible Moment -- 100,000 on Meetup
This is the second day of the September to Remember, and you've already made history.

At 11:35 AM, the 100,000th person joined Dean Meetup. This is truly astounding. I knew it was coming, but I'm still stunned with the power of it.

This is completely unheard of in presidential history, especially this early in a campaign -- one hundred thousand people planning to meet in their own communities and organize locally to take this country back and restore what is best in American Democracy.

Tomorrow, in 728 towns and cities, Americans will be putting aside a few hours -- skipping a movie or skimping on dinner -- to come together in 728 places to work with eachother on building this campaign.

The Governor, who is here in Vermont today preparing for the September 4th debate, said “This is an extraordinary moment.”

“From the first moment I stepped out the car at the March 5th Meetup in New York City, I knew something incredible was happening in America. On that cold winter day in an out-of-the-way place, more than 600 people had shown up to help the campaign. Since then, all across the country I’ve met people who got involved in politics for the first time through their local Dean Meetups. These are people who have got involved and decided to help take their country back. Every day now, our grassroots community is growing stronger. These 100,000 Americans have reengaged in politics--and they’ll find out that they really can make a difference.”

Thank you so much and congratulaions. Meetup has been the soul of the campaign, and the powerful creative political energy that has come out of your Meetups has brought this campaign to where it is today.

http://www.blogforamerica.com/

[killbotfactory]

1. I remember when it was only 10k...

And I remember reading about that meetup in NY that Dean went to.

That was when Dean was the longshot, now the race is Dean's to lose!

Dean '04

[Khephra]

2. hehe

My first meetup in Indy had 6 people total--and I already knew all of the people there except for two of them.

Now it's gotten so big that they're having to hold it in 3 locations this month! We're talking Indianapolis! That's astonishing here!

[Cha]

4. That's a Growing Concern! I went to my very first one last month

and there were about 25 in a republican area of New York..

Tomorrow night we're going to be making inroads at the local college and I can't wait to see how many are going to be there! :-)

[Cha]

3. That's a Good Number of Energetic GrassRooters out there

busy trying to get Dean elected!

My last known count was 70,000! So 30,000 came from somewhere!

[CMT]

5. EXCELLENT!!

I'm pumped about our next meetup in Madison, Wi becuz the guest speaker will be the progressive columnist John Nichols who writes for the Capital Times and The Nation magazine. It will be great to hear what he says.

[caledesi]

6. We had to open another venue here in Tampa because of the crowd!

Yeah, Dean is peaking too soon...sure. <smirk>