for Dean fans & bloggers – MSNBC article about Zephyr Teachout

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Behind Dean’s win on the Web
Attorney had virtually no Net experience before campaign

By Felix Schein
MSNBC

Imagine for a moment that you have fallen in love with Howard Dean. Not literally, but figuratively and politically speaking. In fact, you’ve fallen so in love that you’ve decided to download and print Dean campaign posters and fliers from the Internet and subsequently distribute them at a local market. The only hitch is, you don’t want to go on this first date alone. You need a companion to work with you, someone who’s also fallen in love with Dean, someone you can trust and understand.

ENTER ZEPHYR Teachout, Dean’s director of online organizing. She too has fallen for Dean, so much so in fact that she auctioned off all her belongings and moved to Dean’s Burlington campaign headquarters last December. There, she worked her way through the research and field operations departments before landing in Dean’s history making online operation.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/981643.asp

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1. Kick!

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2. Zephyr is from my neck of the woods

The town in Vermont she is from is about 15 minutes from the town I live in.

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3. is Zephyr a popular name in that area (or any area for that matter)?

until I read this article I always figured Zephyr Teachout was some kinda internet alias.

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4. No, it's not.

She's the first one I've ever heard have that name, and I also thought it was an online moniker. I don't know her personally, only that she hails from my area. I learned that through Becky, the Regional Director (I think that's her title) of the Dean campaign in the Upper Valley. I know all the local staffers because of some volunteer work I've done in the office.