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Joe Trippi (born June 10, 1956) is a long-time American Democratic campaign worker and consultant. Trippi has worked on the presidential campaigns of Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Dick Gephardt, Jerry Brown and most recently John Edwards. He served as campaign manager for presidential candidate and former Vermont governor Howard Dean.

Career

In 2011, Trippi & Associates provided strategic support for the campaign of Goodluck Jonathan in the Nigerian presidential election.

The Dean campaign, and Trippi specifically, was noted for his use of the Internet,.

Trippi is also a fellow at the New Politics Institute, a think tank of the New Democrat Network,

Trippi is a member of the advisory board of Why Tuesday?, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to increasing voter participation. Trippi is also a member of the board of directors for the conservation organization the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy.

Trippi has been hired by the Libertas political party to work on their European Parliament election, 2009 campaign.

In late January 2010, Andrew Romanoff, who challenged the incumbent Senator Michael Bennet in the 2010 Colorado Senate election, announced his campaign had hired Trippi as one of its four new consultants.

In an interview with MSNBC, Zimbabwean opposition activist Roy Bennett, who had been arrested and jailed by the Mugabe government, credited Joe Trippi with helping to ensure his release by increasing international pressure on Mugabe.

In 2011, during the Bahraini uprising, Trippi was on the Bahrainin payroll and said he "had no problem working for them" because they were " one of the progressive countries in the Middle Eastern Gulf" Trippi ended his work in Bahrain in April 2012, following the report of Bahrain's National Commission, which was tasked with following up on the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry.

Published work

• Joe Trippi (2004-07-06). The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-076155-4.

References

1. Nigerian Elections 2011: Goodluck May Need to Live up to His Name | Think Africa Press
2. The revolution will not be televised - msnbc - Hardball with Chris Matthews | NBC News
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4. NDN - A Progressive Think Tank and Advocacy Organization | NDN
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7. Axelrod, Ethan (January 29, 2010). "Joe Trippi, 3 Other Consultants Sign On With Romanoff". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
8. Joe Trippi and Roy Bennett interview on MSNBC]
9. U.S. not "standing idly by" in Bahrain - Salon.com
10. Trippi Ends Bahrain Work - O'Dwyer's

• A NOW on PBS 2008 interview with Joe Trippi

External links

• Joe Trippi's official blog

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