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Joe Trippi (b. 1956) is a long-time American Democratic campaign worker and consultant. A mainstay in presidential politics, Trippi has worked on the presidential campaigns of Edward Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, and Dick Gephardt. Most notably, he served as campaign manager for presidential candidate and former Vermont governor Howard Dean. The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ...
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Trippi is an alumnus of San José State University and a brother of Sigma Nu. San José State University, commonly shortened to San José State and SJSU, is the founding campus of what became the California State University system. ...
ΣΠ(Sigma Nu) is an undergraduate college fraternity with chapters in the United States and Canada. ...
In 2004 Joe Trippi was named a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School Institute of Politics.
He currently resides on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with his wife Kathleen Lash. He has three children from a previous marriage: Christine Marie Trippi (b. August 9th, 1986), James Ellis Trippi (b. December 7th, 1988) and Ted Casey Trippi (b. April 23, 1990).
Career After working in several successful local elections in San Jose, California in the mid-1970s Trippi joined the national campaign staff of Senator Edward Kennedy's Presidential campaign in 1979. Image File history File links Wikitext. ...
In 1981, at the age of 24, Trippi was the Deputy Campaign Manager for Mayor Tom Bradley's successful reelection bid in Los Angeles, California and in 1982 was Bradley's Statewide Deputy Campaign Manager for Governor of California. In 1983 Trippi served in government for his first and only time, becoming Lt Governor Leo McCarthy's Deputy Chief of Staff in Sacramento.
Still in his 20's in 1983 Trippi joined the campaign staff of Vice President Walter Mondale -- first as the state director of Maine where he was credited with engineering a come from behind victory at the 1983 state convention for Mondale -- earning him a promotion to state director of Iowa's first in the nation caucuses. After running Iowa for Mondale and winning the state by over 30 points Trippi went on to run the Pennsylvania Primary effort for Mondale. Mondale defeated Gary Hart in Pennsylvania by 14 points.
In 1985 Trippi became the Deputy Director of the Fund for a Democratic Majority -- Senator Edward Kennedy's political action committee run by Paul Tully. Tully, along with Mike Ford, had been Trippi's superior in the Kennedy and Mondale campaigns. Bob Shrum was the Chairman of the Fund for a Democratic Majority. In mid-1985 Bob Shrum resigned as Chairman of the Fund for a Democratic Majority to launch the media firm of Caddell, Doak and Shrum and recruited Trippi to be the firm's Vice President. The firm quickly became Doak and Shrum and Trippi helped produce the media and strategy for several successful gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns, imcluding Jerry Baliles who won the 1985 race for Governor of Virginia, Senator Alan Cranston of California, Barbara Mikulski's successful bid for the US Senate in Maryland, and Bob Casey for Governor of Pennsylvania. Perhaps the most noteworthy television spot of the 1986 cycle was the "Zschau's Greatest Hits" spot for Alan Cranston's Senate campaign in California, Trippi is credited by Bob Shrum for his creative work in conceiving and producing that spot.
Trippi left the firm of Doak and Shrum when Paul Tully who had become Senator Gary Hart's Poltical Director recruited Trippi to become Hart's Deputy Political Director in 1987. After the Miami Herald broke the story of Gary Hart and Donna Rice, Trippi became the Chief of Staff to Hart's wife Lee Hart, he was just 31 years old at the time. After Gary Hart withdrew from the race, Trippi became the national Deputy Campaign Manager for the Gephardt for President campaign and is credited with the "Hyundai" ad in Iowa that catapulted Gephardt from last place in most polls to winning the Iowa caucuses.
By the end of the 1988 Presidential Campaign Cycle Trippi had become largely disenchanted with the process of politics. He would only appear in cameo roles in the Doug Wilder and Jerry Brown campaigns in 1992 -- though even in these less engaged roles he managed to, along with Joe Costello, introduce the successful interactive use of the 800 number in politics for the first time. Jerry Brown would raise $8 million in 1992 from citizens contributing by calling an 800 number promoted in television ads and during televised debates. Trippi withdrew from presidential politics completely in the remainder of 1992, 1996 and 2000. In the 1990s worked as a media consultant for the several campaigns including Jim Moran's hard charging defeat of Republican Stan Paris in 1990 in Virgina's 8th Congressional District. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinski's victory in Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District in 1992, a district that had not been won by a Democrat since 1904. Trippi produced the media for Ron Wyden's successful bid for Oregon's US Senate seat to replace disgraced Senator Bob Packwood in a special election. The Wyden camp had developed a very rudimetary website with the ability to gather volunteer information and accept donations. Ironically, Trippi refused to include the URL in the TV commercials claiming "No one knows what 'www' means." Trippi also worked for John Kitzhaber's two successful runs for Governor of Oregon. In 2002 five Democratic members of congress were redistricted into Republican majority districts held by an incumbent Republican member of congress. Trippi produced the media and strategy for Pennsylvania Congressman Tim Holden the only Democrat of the five to win in the incumbent vs incumbent races. During this time Trippi also got reengaged with one of his first loves from his college days in Silicon Valley -- technolgy.
Trippi began to serve as a corporate consultant in Silicon Valley to firms involved in ecommerce, online communities and the open source movement. Trippi straddled the two worlds of politics and technology for many years. As early as 1982 he personally purchased a DEC computer and installed it in Tom Bradley's Gubernatorial campaign to track targeted voter files and build a contributor database. This effort is believed to be the most advanced use of computers actually used inside a campaign at the time -- if not the first actual instance of such use. In 2003 Trippi would go to work for Dean for America as Howard Dean's National Campaign Manager. For the Nintendo 64 game, see Space Station Silicon Valley. ...
Until spring of 2004, Trippi was a principal at the political consulting firm Trippi, McMahon & Squier, which produced advertisements for Dean's gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. Political consulting is the business which has grown up around advising and assisting political campaigns, primarily in the United States. ...
Trippi currently leads his consulting firm Trippi & Associates. In the 2006 cycle he produced the media for John Hall's victory in New York's 19th Congressional District and for Jerry Brown's successful bid for Attorney General of California.
Over the years Trippi has been involved in more than a few International campaigns. Trippi worked for Andreas Papandreous winning campaign for Prime Minister of Greece under the PAZOK Party in 1993. Trippi advised Prime Minister Tony Blair during his successful bid for a third term in 2005. Trippi also worked on behalf of Romano Prodi in his successful bid for Prime Minister of Italy in 2006. In 2007 Trippi consulted on text messaging strategies to the opposition Action Congress Party in Nigeria, the ruling party kept Atiku, the AC candidate off the ballot until overruled by the Supreme Court with only 7 days left prior to the election -- all European Union and US election observers called the Nigerian election a farce. Despite text messaging like "You hold the torch of Nigeria's democracy in your hands, keep the torch of democracy safe and strong -- Vote for AC Party" -- AC was crushed by the ruling party.
Dean campaign The Dean campaign, and Trippi specifically, became widely acclaimed for the innovative use of the Internet, especially for fundraising. In particular, Trippi was largely responsible for the creation of an official campaign blog, and the use of Meetup and other social networking technologies to connect supporters. Both techniques are widely utilized today by other social and political campaigns. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Meetup. ...
A social network is a map of the relationships between individuals, indicating the ways in which they are connected through various social familiarities ranging from casual acquaintance to close familial bonds. ...
Trippi was a key voice in the Dean campaign's decision to forgo the use of federal matching funds for the Democratic presidential nomination, a move intended to help escape the fundraising limits the matching funds brought. The decision prompted eventual nomination winner John Kerry to follow suit and allow his campaign to remain financially competitive with Bush in the months leading up to the convention. John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts, in his fourth term of office. ...
Dean replaced Trippi as campaign manager on January 28, 2004 after consecutively losing the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. Trippi subsequently signed on as a commentator for MSNBC; and started his own consultancy, Trippi & Associates. is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Since 1976, the Iowa caucus has been the first indication of which candidate for President of the United States would win the nomination of his or her political party at that partys national convention. ...
The New Hampshire primary is the first of a number of statewide political party primary elections held in the United States every four years, as part of the process of the Democratic and Republican parties choosing their candidate for the presidential elections on the subsequent November. ...
For the news website, see msnbc. ...
Recent work In 2006 Trippi produced the media and served as a consultant to John Hall in his winning bid for New York's 19th Congressional seat, and for Jerry Brown's winning campaign for Attorney General of California.
Trippi has worked closely with Mike Ford, Paul Tully, and John Sasso over the years. He is the author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything. John Sasso is an American Democrat political operative, born in Massachusetts. ...
On April 19, 2007, Trippi announced that he would serve as a Senior Advisor for John Edwards' Presidential campaign. is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
Joe Trippi is also a fellow at the New Politics Institute [1], a think tank of the New Democrat Network [2][3], founded by Simon Rosenberg in 1996. The NDN's stated purpose is to help elect "centrist" Democrats, and is considered by many to be a successor to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), an organization that Simon Rosenberg resigned from in 1996. (Rosenberg was one of Howard Dean's rivals for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee in 2005.) Rosenberg gives a speech on behalf of NDN. Simon Rosenberg is the founder of the New Democrat Network, an organization formerly allied with the Democratic Leadership Council, and was a candidate for the Democratic National Committee Chair in 2005. ...
Published work - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything (2004) (ISBN 0-06-076155-5)
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Quotes "There is only one tool, one platform, one medium that allows the American people to take their government back, and that's the Internet."
"Politics is a strangely addictive game."
"You gotta believe."
"You just don't get it."
"It doesn't get much better than this"
External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Joe Trippi - Joe Trippi's official website
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