DemocracyFest Update

THE Bloggers' Breakfast is returning to DemocracyFest this year!

It's not a brunch, Kos won't be there, no need to protest ;-)

Darrell asked me to share the following with you:

It started out simple enough...nothing more then an off topic discussion on the Dean For America blog about the homemade apple butter that was simmering in my kitchen. It was just another of those occasional digressions from the serious topics of politics that made the blog a "community" in cyberspace. Before the night ended, an invitation had been made and accepted by several bloggers to come to Iowa to help the Dean Campaign, where I would serve up a home cooked Iowa breakfast featuring my apple butter.

Several months passed and on a cold January, 2004 morning in Des Moines, Iowa, bloggers from 29 states gathered at the first "Bloggers Breakfast". Although the numbers who came made it impossible to make the entire meal myself; yes, it did include my homemade apple butter. It was the first real face to face gathering of the Internet driven grassroots community that was developing from the Howard Dean candidacy.

It was an emotional high point for many of us who had been working so hard in the campaign and who knew each other only by names like, "Darrell in Iowa" for much of the previous year. We repeated the breakfast again at the first DemocracyFest with even greater attendance and with equal enthusiasm and emotion.

Since those days many have continued very involved and others have taken time to stand back and reflect, myself being among the later. With another important election year before us it seems time for those of us who stepped away to join again with those who have kept our "blog" community alive.

I hope to see all of you again in San Diego at the Third Annual DemocracyFest and particularly hope you join me for breakfast.

- "Darrell in Iowa"

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