profile on Joe

By Aziz P. -
Joe Trippi is one of us. He reads the DeanBlog, he posts comments, he rocks to the Dean Techno Mix. I think it's about time that someone gave him the spotlight!

There on the fourth floor, with a view of the brick facade across the street, Trippi spends mornings, afternoons and evenings chugging Diet Pepsi with a telephone stuck in his ear. He’s currently filling the role of chief spokesman for the campaign, too. The phone never stops ringing, as reporters far and wide line up to cover the new kid on the block in the 2004 presidential race.

“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist,” said Trippi, to recognize the benefit that Saturday’s national exposure brought to Howard Dean. In fact, said the Trippster, every time Ho-Ho appears on national TV he gets a big bump in popularity. And the bump appears online as the curious sign up by the thousands for Dean “meetups” all around the country. Check out: http://dean2004.meetup.com.

No candidate has ever tapped the Internet the way Howard Dean has. It’s one of the skills that Trippi, a Silicon Valley brat with a technology background, brings to the doctor’s table.


Joe' ease with technology really shines here on the DeanBlog, and I know I speak for everyone when I say that his participation and hard work are a major factor in Dean's netroots success.

But good grief, Diet Pepsi? :)

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