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Howard Dean's campaign for president changed the way in which campaigns are run today. With an unlikely collection of highly talented and motivated staffers drawn from a variety of backgrounds, the Dean campaign transformed the way in which money was raised and supporters galvanized by using the Internet. Surprisingly, many of the campaign staff members were neither computer whizzes nor practiced political operatives, even though that is how some of them are identified today. This book allows key individuals in the campaign the chance to tell their stories with an eye to documenting the Internet campaign revolution and providing lessons to future campaigns. Howard Dean's inspirational statement of what it took for his campaign to get as far as it did-"mousepads, shoe leather, and hope"-holds great wisdom for anyone campaigning today, especially the 2008 presidential candidates.
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Zephyr Rain Teachout, the second of five children, was born in Vermont to Peter Teachout, a constitutional law professor at Vermont Law School, and Mary Miles Teachout, a state court judge. Her father served in the United States Army as a Lieutenant during the Vietnam War and has a law degree from Harvard Law School.
Teachout attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993.
She is an Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University. In 2014, she ran for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor of New York, losing to incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo. In July 2015, she was named as Chief Executive Officer and Board chair for the United States-based anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday Public Affairs Committee, replacing Lawrence Lessig.
In January 2016, she announced her candidacy for representative of New York"s 19th congressional district.
She was raised on a farm outside of Norwich, Vermont. She went on to receive two simultaneous degrees from Duke University in 1999: a Juris Doctor summa cum laude and a Master of Arts in political science.
She is a tenured Associate Professor of Law at Fordham Law School and previously a Visiting Professor of Law at Duke University and a lecturer at the University of Vermont. Teachout is an antitrust and media expert who served as the Director of Internet Organizing for the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign.
She cofounded A New Way Forward, an organization built to break up the power of big banks, and was involved with Occupy Wall Street.
Teachout was also the first national director of the Sunlight Foundation. 2014 New York gubernatorial campaign Zephyr Teachout and running mate Tim Wu faced off against incumbent Andrew Cuomo and comedian Randy Credico in the Democratic primary election on September 9, 2014. During the Working Families Party convention to nominate a candidate for the 2014 gubernatorial election, Teachout lost a nomination bid against incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo"s margin of victory was much closer than expected, especially since the Working Families Party traditionally cross-endorses the Democratic Party candidate.
After losing the Working Families Party nomination to Cuomo, she announced that she would be running for the Democratic nomination for governor. Her running mate, Lieutenant Governor candidate Tim Wu, is a Columbia University law professor who coined the phrase "Netto neutrality".
Their campaign raised $800,000, a small amount for New York state politics. As of 4 days before the primary election polls showed their likely voter share at 26%, in line with the predictions of political professionals.
She and Wu lost to Cuomo and his running mate, former United States. Representative Kathy Hochul in the primary on September 9, 2014, but surprised experts and pollsters by capturing over 34% of the vote, with an especially strong showing in upstate New New York
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Mousepads, Shoe Leather and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics (Paradigm Publishers, 2007) (ed with T Streeter)
The Anti-Corruption Principle, 94 Cornell Law Review 341 (2009).
