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January 31, 2004

The Trippi question

Jason Lefkowitz raises the unpleasant but necessary questions about the $35M Dean fund burn-through and Trippi's possible conflict of interest:

...everything I've heard and read about Trippi is that he's an idealist who likely failed to sweat the details, rather than came up with any conscious scheme to defraud DFA. But the problem is, we don't know how it happened! The blog is silent on the Trippi/TMS conflict-of-interest issue; Dean and Neel aren't saying anything; and Trippi is pledging his ongoing support for his old boss.

I don't know what the money facts are, but I am certain that Trippi was genuinely on fire about the vision Dean is putting forth: Connected citizens taking their country back. To end the speculation, Dean should remember the point he made about conspiracy theories emerging when an organization keeps the lights off.

The Dean blog has posted a transcript of Deborah Norville's itneresting-but-softball interview of Trippi. She doesn't ask Jason's questions.

I laughed at Jon Stewart's "interview" with Dean.

Posted at 10:49 AM | Email this entry | Category: Dean campaign
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Trippi's interview with Norville shows how lucky the Dean campaign was to attract him (and how lucky we were to get to know him through his Internet efforts). We should be glad that he is on "our side." Now let's all get out there and remove Bush from the White House.

Posted by Jo Ann on January 31, 2004 02:03 PM | Permalink to Comment

Joe was moved to tears a few times in that interview... me too. I tossed video up on my blog:

http://blogumentary.typepad.com/chuck/2004/01/joe_trippi_true.html

Posted by Chuck Olsen on February 4, 2004 02:29 AM | Permalink to Comment

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