County Chairman Cliff Wilson, in a letter to Pennsylvani Democratic Party Chair TJ Rooney, has urged the PA delegation to the Democratic National Committee to support Howard Dean for national chairman. “The state party has ten national committee members, not counting innumerable at-large appointments, and a reputation as a state that delvers to Democratic national candidatesâ€�, Wilson said. "Our support of Dean could be a determinative factor in the national chairman selection.â€�

In his letter to Rooney,who as state party chair leads the Pennsylvania DNC delegation Wilson said in part:

“One individual, among those offering to lead this party, stands out well above the rest in his accomplishments and his ability to articulate the message of the Democratic Party. I am referring to former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. If there is one preeminent task facing the next DNC chair, it is to keep the involvement of the thousands (sixty thousand in Pennsylvania alone) of new political activists energized by the 2004 campaign. Dean not only has the enthusiasm of his own followers, he has the credentials to bring... other groups of campaigners into the Democratic Party where they belong.

The election of 2004 can become a positive one for Democrats if we use it to rebuild and renew our party by opening the doors at every level to all those who were active in any venue on our side.

Or we can be perceived as a party that will go back to business as usual: competing with the Republicans to do the bidding of the large corporate money interests and hiding from the label of its past and its roots and allowing others to paint us as the tool of special interests.