Jim Dean in Mississippi with DFA-List Candidate Gary Anderson

Written by: Sheri Divers on Oct 12, 2007 9:00 AM EDT

 Jim Dean and Insurance Commissioner Candidate Gary Anderson made the Jackson Free Press in Mississippi:

‘Blue Dot in a Red Sea’

Democracy for America Chairman Jim Dean endorsed Democratic candidate Gary Anderson for Mississippi Insurance Commissioner last week during a visit to Anderson’s campaign headquarters.

Dean told the Jackson Free Press that he and the pro-Democratic organization Democracy for America endorsed Anderson because of his pledges to take no campaign donations from insurance companies, and to give policyholders easy-to-read language without small-print pitfalls.

“That is a message that the whole nation could agree with,” said Dean, whose organization has helped raise $7,000 for Anderson’s campaign. “Many insurance commissioners get campaign contributions from insurance companies. Many talk about rates the one or two times a year that it comes up, or they talk about plain English policies. ... When Gary talks about that, I think about a lot of other places where voters, both Republicans and Democrats, would respond very positively.”

DFA is a political action committee inspired by the 2004 presidential campaign of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Dean’s campaign made waves as one of the first truly grass-roots political efforts in decades, setting new records in private versus business contributions.

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-Sheri Divers

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