Word: trippiness
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...after finishing 12 points behind John Kerry in New Hampshire, Dean went home to Vermont in part to rest and have time to attend his son Paul's hockey match that night. But at a half-hour meeting at noon at a Burlington law firm, Dean informed Trippi that he would bring on Roy Neel, a longtime aide to former Vice President Al Gore and a telecommunications lobbyist who had served as White House deputy chief of staff in the Clinton Administration. Dean wanted and expected Trippi to accept the demotion and stay on as a senior adviser...
While Dean did not publicly criticize Trippi, Dean's advisers were upset that the campaign had spent much of the record $41 million it raised last year by advertising in states, like New Mexico, long before their primaries. One ad even aired in Austin, Texas, to coincide with a visit by President Bush to his home state. Staffers have been asked to forgo paychecks for two weeks, and the campaign has so little money that it isn't running ads in states with primaries on Feb. 3. Some advisers to the campaign also complained that Trippi had led the candidate...
Dean's fervent supporters often came to the campaign through the Web operation Trippi created, and they posted hundreds of laudatory farewells within an hour of learning of his departure. But they want to win too. "I wasn't voting for Trippi," Melissa Sternberg, an Austin artist, said. "He had great ideas and got the campaign off to a great start." At the same time they praised Trippi, many bloggers said they hoped the reformed campaign would improve its ads, which were designed by Trippi's firm and roundly disliked by the troops for being too negative about other candidates...
...first time I've seen the D.N.C. on top of anything for a while," says Donna Brazile, Gore's former campaign manager. Political consultants as far away as West Africa have contacted Dean's Web team. The office of the Prime Minister of Canada has called twice. Trippi may have left Dean's campaign, but his ideas have already been stolen, which guarantees them a life in this campaign cycle--and probably guarantees him a few lucrative consulting deals. --With reporting by Marc Hequet/St. Paul, Hilary Hylton/Austin, Karen Tumulty/Washington and Eli Sanders/Seattle
HOWARD DEAN: He drops manager Trippi and minds Michigan...