I like the idea of somebody who was a deputy because they had front row seats to see what not to do.

Qualities I look for in a DCCC Chair -

1. Strong ability to recruit across the board excellent candidates.

2. Strong ability to raise tons of money

3. Ability to project and inspire confidence as the DCCC face of the party.

4. Strong organizational skills.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz gets my votes on all these counts.

I think the netroots should focus on explaining to whomever is the next chair what went wrong this cycle and how early investment in all races could pick up even more seats in 2008. And no primaries so we don't have the two sides of the vanity problem (Duckworth and McNerney).

i voted meek, but either meek or schultz.  both of them are part of the 30-something dem's group, and i feel they have been creative in the way they approach things.

Becerra is my Congressman and is quite good.  He has failed to disappoint except for this last cycle--He was running uncontested, and we called him to give extra money for the 'Use It Or Lose It' program.  No one in his office got back to us, and from the updates, it looked like he didn't give anything extra at all.  He is still a good guy in my book, though I don't think he'd be a prolific fundraiser.

I've advocated the idea of a co-charimanship.  Van Hollen and Wasserman-Schulz offer differnt strengths and together are a force to be reckoned with.

Van Hollen is my congressman. He's alright- a solid liberal vote but a pretty typical politician through and through. I have enough problems with him that I skipped the race on my primary ballot. He never seems to put his neck on the line or take a controversial position. When I was in high school he came and talked to the school Democratic club. He spent the entire time talking about social security, to 16-year-olds.

Of course none of that means he would make a bad DCCC head, per se. He did do a pretty good job with candidate recruitment this past year.

I think Emmanuel showed why co chairs are an excellent idea.

He was very good at raising money but his political sense and desire for self aggragranazition made him waste most of that money.

Split it between a money/corporate D to raise the money but keep them away from the checkbook or the any power and a People D to direct the spending and candinate recruitment.

Each plays to thier strength.

I'd like to think that Mr. Davis will be busy with a Senate campaign in 2008.

Anyways, it really seems like Van Hollen and Wasserman Schultz are the legitimate fundraisers which, while not good enough in itself, is a necessary component.

Van Hollen sat on a lot of money the last time around, so that leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but I also have the completely unsubstantiated impression that he's better connected into the traditional levers of power which support the party.  That, I suppose, is a mixed blessing depending on your perspective, but I'd rather have someone who has to come to the roots than someone who has to convince the big money and the movers and shakers.  I realize that to many, that's selling out the movement and all, but after the progress that's been made in that department, i'd hate to lose it.

Artur Davis is a New Dem who is meeting with George Bush  on Friday as a representative of  the New Dems and the Blue Dogs- right wing corporatists wing of the party.

I don't want someone with those kinds of political instincts at the DCCC.  Hollen and Schultz are definitely much better at this.  Raising money and spotting candidates and working to help the party, not undermine it.

I've seen a lot of both Wasserman-Schultz and Meek on C-Span - they hold the 30something caucus discussions which are excellent. Both are from Florida and Florida is a red state with several ripe seats to be picked (and new seats to be defended) and has the possibility to revert to purple as soon as Jeb Bush is off the scene. Slight nod to DWS because she's got ties to NY as well (born and raised on Long Island).

Xavier Beccera is a good choice because outreach to Hispanic voters is a key compliment to the 2008 Presidential race - if Dems solidify the gains they made in the last election among Hispanic voters and keep their coalition together then Democrats will be in a permanent majority. Holding the House and Senate long term allows you to govern - which is more interesting to me than politics.

My choices would be...
1)Xavier B. - keeping Hispanic gains means permanent majority
2)Debbie W. - could improve Dems in FL
3)Kendrick M. - ditto, great opponent of Iraq
4)Chris V. - solid, scares me that his local paper is the Washington Post
5)Mike Thomspson - solid, Blue Dog
6) Sen. Artur Davis has more important things to do

I was struck that even though I am an obsessive observer of the political scene I cant remember hearing anything about any of these people.  I am not even familiar with most of the names.  Am I alone in this?

Wasserman is hot.

Wasserman Schultz for sure. She represents the district adjacent to mine and I'm jealous of her constituents. She's a kickass fundraiser and a progressive to boot.

Van Hollen is my congressman, as well.  I think he did a pretty good job as one of Emanuel's deputies this time around.  I wish that he had raised more for the DCCC.  What impressed me most about him was that he ran in the primary against Mark Shriver, who I would have expected to win and beat him by out organizing and outworking him and then went on to beat a popular incumbent Republican (his district is overwhelmingly Dem, but has elected moderate to liberal Republicans before).  He knows what it takes to win.

I want someone who understands that Howard Dean is changing the srategy of the Democratic party, that those changes are needed and that while Dean may have failed as a candidate, he has been ideal as a leader.  If Dems are to fulfill all of our hopes for the return of this country to the founding principles of our forefathers, the DCCC must work in cooperation with Dean and the vision that he has shared with us.  He was resisted every step of the way with regard to the 50 state strategy and was proven right in November.  We need someone who gets it.

getting it.....not

Mike Thompson is my congressman. He told us last January that Howard Dean was "not a team player" that CA CD4 was "not in play"...voted for the bankruptcy bill...

Not that up on the details but isn't the job to raise money and apply wisely vs. policy issues.

Kind of like getting the care\ tuned up, you'd pay crazy Uncle Walt in his "Who Lost China" baseball cap vs. Uncle Joe in his "Free Tibet" baseball cap because Walt does a better job and neither one puts bumper stickers on your car?

others.  

Such as the DNC, DSCC and the 50 state strategy,  and sees the value in the netroots.

Wasserman-Schultz should be the choice. Hands down. She's a razor from a safe deep blue district with proven high-caliber fundraising chops and limitless potential as a party leader.

I've watched Van Hollen, Wasserman Schultz and Meek on the Thirty-something evenings and like them all.

Chris Van Hollen was apparently one of the Dems interested in running for the Senate seat vacated by Sen Paul Sarbanes. Sen Barbara Mikulski will be 74 years old when she's up for reelection in 2010. Could Van Hollen be planning for a second try?

Debbie Wasserman Schultz has spoken of her family during some of her Thirty-something speeches; could family obligations cause her to be reluctant to serve? But she's very incisive in her analysis and I'd vote for her in a minute.

Not to beat a dead horse (well.... okay, to beat a dead horse), but since it seems the consensus is that Van Hollen and Wasserman Schultz are 6 in one and helf a dozen in the other with regard to fund raising; shouldn't we be trying to figure out who will be likely to help Dean and the Netroots build a political mechanism that will have positive results for progressives and democrats for decades to come?  There is more to this position than just raising funds and trying to succeed in the next election.

Building a machine to rival the GOP's in creating a pathway for young Dems to become part of the farm team of future candidates or as well placed media members who help to effectively get out our message is also a part of the job.  We need to think about the next century, not just the next election.

If anyone hasn't read Crashing the Gates, I recommend doing do and thinking about what I've expressed above.  We have a chance now.  Let's do something with it.

[I think this is mostly relevant though I got carried away.  Hope this may be helpful in framing a few issues to think about.  Been following MYDD since 2002]

Don't know these people either, as the poster above commented.  Therefore these discussions are all the more valuable, especially since a positive, reinforcing interaction between the blogs and the DCCC might result in more Democrats being elected; and I think we need about 10-15 more in the House, plus a slew of Senators and good presidential leadership for a progressive agenda to be enacted.  This goal is achievable in 2008.  

The DCCC is one element among many, and it's leader needs to have the openness and imagination to understand the importance of networking to the National Committee, state organizations, the Senate CC, obviously, and of course the Democratic blogosphere (and no doubt much else).  Obviously stellar skills as a fund raiser (I would vomit, I must confess, at this), GOOD PEOPLE SKILLS (should go without saying), political goals congenial to the central policies associated with the Democratic Party. And many of you out there could add far more than I to the job description.

Oh, hell, add divine inspiration to the job description as well.  Clearly God is a Democrat, though His ways are sometimes mysterious.

This last election shows the effect that a few persons in key positions working night and day for years (and for few apparent immediate rewards) can have: Dean, Kos, Stoller, Jerome, even Emmanuel made a difference.  And all of us may have learned from our mistakes, so if you feel you made too many in this election, forgive yourself and soldier on to your next tasks where you will make more. A lot of this is seat of pants flying and intuition.  For example, throwing good money after bad is more understandable to me in a close election than it is in Los Vegas, and very human.

Thus Dean proved right on the 50-state strategy; he was able to figure out ways to get modest amounts of organizational money to the states in ways that had an effect. Compared with the costs of TV advertising a lot of places, this really worked well. Grass roots organizing is nothing without candidates, but in many situations it is a necessary precondition to change, or to actually fighting effective campaigns.

(In this context, anyone from Chicago or DC, is Emmanuel the type of person who CAN learn from his mistakes, Grow? Two years experience must count for something, might help if he were in the loop. Also, any of the Blue Dogs convertible?  Honest enough that he or she could admit that voting for the bankruptcy bill, or bigger, the deregulation of consumer financial services--after all, Hugo Black came back from a Klan membership.  After health care, these will be huge battles in the future affecting hundreds of billions of consumer dollars.)

The New Democrat types seem the danger to progress to this 59 year old.  As a minimum, they appear terrified of risk.  New Democracy seems to me to have been a tactical response to failure, both here and in Britain. They were useful in limiting losses to the neo-liberals; they appeared voices of sanity in an environment driven by unrestrained greed and right-wing ideologues.  Their day has passed, the ideologues are discredited. But the New Democrat/New Laborites are still battening their policies on the corpses of dead economists, much to the profit of the financial services industry in New York, London, and the satellite financial centers.  

In this context, Pelosi's apparent insult to the unions appears insane; a lot of the organizing of the Party during the last several years draws on or at least parallels union organizing techniques. In many places they can be shock troops; their organizational skills certainly offering nodes of information and techniques to model.  And they may offer recruits, personnel, bodies.  Unions can be invaluable, and not just because they may be able to influence member votes.

Besides, Labor is our natural ally. Rubin really does represent interests who may be our natural enemies (but here we can reasonably divide and conquer, just like Nixon did with the unions in the 1970s)

A further problem with the New Democrats, they're what the British call "trimmers," corner cutters. Like Polonius in Hamlet, they shape their opinions to the shifting winds of the moment.  Voters have been burned too often; nationally, talking out of both sides of your mouth seems a sure way to lose in this environment--plus it just turns my stomach. One can only hope for more candidates in a newer mold: a pragmatic liberalism that is, in many ways, trying to enact many of the social policies, including single-payer health insurance, first proposed by Harry Truman.  There are also, of course, a plethora of newer issues to address.

Finally, I hope that the head of the DCCC can recognize and value articulate, intelligent risk takers.  If so, we may not at first win many more districts with such candidates.  But I think we will run closer, and certainly have more fun while fighting the good fight.

I like Wasserman Schultz and Van Hollen and Meek and Becerra, but what's most important for 2008 is contesting every district, very seriously. We actually could grow our majority in 2008 if we seriously contest every district. And no more wasting millions on one district. The DCCC should not be allowed to spend more than $3 million on any one district, and give every district at least $200,000.

That said, it might be a good idea to have a woman like Wasserman Schultz in the lead, since woman usually don't try to grab all the credit for things. Don't mean to be sexist, but just compare the fallout of this election by looking at Nancy and Rahm.

I think this like the committee leadership appointments should be closely observed and discussed to bring the blogsphere up to speed. By 2008 we should have a good sense of the inside baseball of these positions and be able field and support candidates effectively.

In ten years the blogsphere should be collectively an expert on these issues. Having these positions, their tasks, and their responsibilities up for publc discussions, analysis, and participation can only be for the good.

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