Burnt Orange Report

Will Kerry Get his Online Act Together?

By Byron LaMasters

This ought to help:

Zack Exley will be the Kerry campaign's director of online communications and organizing. He was the MoveOn political action committee's special projects director, focusing on research and mobilizing MoveOn supporters, Eli Pariser, the PAC's executive director, said Wednesday.

The only big concern I have is that Republicans will try to use this as proof that there's been coordination between MoveOn.org and the Kerry campaign. It looks, however, as if both Exley and the Kerry campaign are doing everything in their power to show that there's no coordination involved:

At MoveOn's PAC, Exley worked with a branch of the group that spends limited individual donations, so-called "hard money" that is allowed in presidential races.

To guard against any risk or appearance of improper coordination between MoveOn and the Kerry campaign, steps are being taken to make sure Exley doesn't communicate with anyone at MoveOn until after the November election, Pariser said.

Exley's MoveOn laptop was returned to the group as soon as Exley decided to work for Kerry, Pariser said.

"He's not bringing any technology or any physical material to the Kerry campaign. It's just what he's got in his head about how we do online organization," Pariser said.

Good. I'm looking forward to some good stuff from the Kerry online opperation. It's certainly improved over the past few months, but there still a lot more that could be done.

Via Pandagon.