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Blogging Camp Wellstone: Background

Paul Wellstone was one of my personal heros. Like George McGovern he was an exceptionally decent human being who also worked in politics. Soon after he died I signed up to be part of the Wellstone Action Network, and when they recently sent me an invitation to take the Camp Wellstone Training Program, I jumped at the chance. It seemed like another way to put my recent resolution to write less and do more about politics into action. So far most of what I have done during this political season is behind the scenes action, beta testing political organizing software and drafting user documentation for it, and I thought Camp Wellstone would give me some valuable expertise. Plus, who knows, I might find some more effective way to get politically involved.

I thought that I would write up my experience as I went through the training, both as an exercise for myself, and in case anyone else can benefit from it. Unlike people like Cory Doctorow and Heath Row, I'm not a good transcriber, and I suspect that I won't have any time to polish up notes, so I suspect the results will be very uneven, but we'll see how it goes.