For progressive Democrats, the 2003-2004 campaign of Howard Dean was a pivotal moment, and June 23rd, will be the 10th anniversary of his official campaign declaration. It is no understatement to say that Gov. Dean's inspired me to political action and profoundly changed my life.
But Gov. Dean had actually been campaigning well in advance of his official campaign launch, and my wife Molly and I saw him a few days prior to that, on June 19th, when Gov. Dean took a few minutes to speak to some supporters at Larkspur Landing. As it turns out, a photograph of the event was featured on the Dean for America campaign homepage which included Molly, red hair glowing in the center of the photo, with me behind her obscured by my video camera.
Appearing in a photo on the home page of a national presidential campaign was kind of a big deal for us, so I captured the page, which I'm posting for the next 24 hours at the link below in honor of this anniversary.
http://www.blueshifting.com/...
It's actually a fortuitous moment that I inadvertently captured, because it also marked the very first appearance of "The Bat", which became the highly successful (and much emulated) fundraising graphic used throughout the campaign. And the page also features the announcement of the June 23rd Campaign Declaration we commemorate today.