From the San Francisco Chronicle, November 2, 2004 (via Lexis.com)
In the last year Moulitsas has been a consultant to the Howard Dean campaign (he helped Dean use the Internet to raise some $40 million), made Daily Kos a powerhouse and hired a full-time programmer to tweak the code. And what's the future for Daily Kos and those like it?
Salon (Sept. 28, 2004)(via Lexis.com)
Jerome Armstrong, who runs the popular left-leaning blog MyDD.com, is 40 years old, and for much of his life he followed politics only "on the periphery," he says. Only in the last few years has he come to see both the necessity and the excitement of civic participation, and in that short time he's taken to the game with all the gusto of a natural. Armstrong was an early fan of Howard Dean, and Dean's campaign manager, Joe Trippi, was an early fan of Armstrong's blog; the match was eventually consummated in Burlington, Vt., where, during Dean's rise and fall, Armstrong decamped to work for the campaign. Now Armstrong is a full-fledged political consultant; he and Moulitsas have set up a firm to advise politicians on how to use the Web to outmaneuver their opponents, much as Armstrong (and many others) helped Dean to do in his campaign.
American Journalism Review (June, 2004) (lexis.com)
One amateur political blogger stumbled over stricter rules in another professional arena, that of politics. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, 32, author of the Daily Kos,....was raised in El Salvador and served in the U.S. Army, started the Daily Kos in May 2002 drawing from his Army nickname, which rhymes with "rose."
He and his business partner, Jerome Armstrong, worked as paid consultants to Dean's campaign; Moulitsas now consults for "a couple Democratic congressional campaigns and interest groups," though he declines to specify which ones.
The Weekly Standard, April, 2004 (lexis.com ):
"Kos" is the pseudonym for Markos Zúniga, a 27-year-old lawyer in California. He started writing his political blog in the summer of 2002, and in January 2003 became partners with Jerome Armstrong, who had spent the previous couple of years helping Vermont governor Howard Dean cement his Internet presence. Last April, their political consultancy, Armstrong Zúniga, helped orchestrate grassroots efforts to draft Gen. Wesley Clark for president. And last May, they signed a contract with Dean for America.
The Spectator, April, 2004 (lexis.com)
The Daily Kos has been mentioned approvingly in stories on the rising influence of the Internet by CNN, CBS, Business Week, the Associated Press, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and our chums at the Guardian. Zuniga's admirers include Simon Rosenberg, former Clinton aide and president of the New Democrat Network ('Markos has done an incredible job'). Howard Dean put him on the payroll as a campaign consultant. John Kerry's website links to Mr Zuniga.
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 15, 2004 (lexis.com)
From his bungalow in Berkeley, he's spreading the word of grassroots netocracy to the Beltway. He formed an Internet political consulting firm with Jerome Armstrong, a fellow blog visionary who works from a computer in Burlington, Vt. They already have several big-name clients, although Dean is the only one whose name they will make public.
Salon, Sept. 9, 2003 (lexis.com):
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the proprietor of the popular lefty blog Daily Kos and a consultant to the Dean campaign's Web efforts, says that even if Dean is failing to appeal to minorities now, they will come to him if he wins the nomination.
Salon, Sept. 5, 2003(lexis.com):
The tension with DraftClark2004 -- or "20-Oh-4," as it's called by insiders -- stretches back to when DraftClark.com, one of the first Clark Web sites, was relinquished by its founder, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, a 31-year-old former U.S. Army soldier turned lawyer turned Dean campaign technical consultant. Moulitsas jump-started the Draft Clark Movement earlier this year before finally giving up on Clark after months of waiting for him to declare -- and after Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi invited him to work with Dean.
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