Author: Rick Klau

I’m back from the Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Iowa, the annual fund-raiser for the Iowa Democratic Party. Over at my Dean campaign blog, I took some notes about how I thought it went. One of the pictures in particular will likely amuse those of you reading here.

I’m back from the Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Iowa, the annual fund-raiser for the Iowa Democratic Party. Over at my Dean campaign blog, I took some notes about how I thought it went. One of the pictures in particular will likely amuse those of you reading here.

I couldn’t resist flying to Kaleefornya for tomorrow’s inauguration. (Actually, it’s a press tour, I’m meeting with a number of tech pubs in the next couple days. But that doesn’t sound nearly as intriguing.) Anyone out there want to join me for a dinner Tuesday night?

Josh Marshall notes that Clark’s campaign appears to have had some restructuring of late. Interesting how Clark’s restructuring happened almost entirely below the radar this week, while Kerry’s continues to be front page news. (Of course, Clark didn’t go on record as saying he’s better off without them, so I guess that counts for something.)

We woke up this morning to a fat copy of the Des Moines Register in front of our hotel room. The front page declared that “Hillary Clinton was the star attraction at Saturday’s Jefferson Jackson Day dinner.” And in today’s New York Times, Adam Nagourney says that “it was clear that the dinner was largely…

My family and I just returned from the JJ Dinner in Des Moines. We drove a total of 650 miles (our 18 month old is quite a trooper; the 3 1/2 year-old just liked watching Toy Story again and again) to attend this historic event. I’ll post more observations tonight after we get the kids…

Ernie is brainstorming about how his firm can use a weblog to be more strategic in their marketing. This is a great idea, one that I’m shocked more firms aren’t embracing today.

FYI — I’ve taken advantage of the fact that I’m rebuilding this weblog from the ground up in moving webhosts to change the way some things operate behind the scenes. The biggest change is the way in which my archive URLs are built. As a result, old inbound links are broken. There was no easy…

Just a heads up — I’m changing web hosts this weekend. If all goes well, DNS should propogate by Monday of next week and you won’t notice a thing. (Actually, that’s not entirely true: you should notice zippier performance on comments, trackbacks, etc.) — but the content should all be the same. Many, many thanks…

I’m watching the stream on MSNBC right now, and it’s an historic moment. SEIU and AFSCME have officially endorsed Howard Dean for President. Governor Dean asked, “Don’t black and purple and green look great together?” (The respective colors of IUPAT, SEIU and AFSCME.) Yeah, they sure do. This is a big, big day for the…