For some, that means activism in a familiar form: campaigning, demonstrations, occupations.
Republicans and other critics accuse him of skirting campaign-finance laws to make what amounts to a long-form campaign advertisement.
He fidgeted, occasionally lapsing into un-McCainlike blandness: "There is a process in place that will formalize the methodology," he said in describing how his free-form campaign style will assume the discipline expected of a probable Republican standard-bearer.
"After I was selected I had already formed campaign team, which actually includes campaign members who are former supporters of Douglas Carswell.
Yet he has a fully formed campaign apparatus and national fund-raising network ready to fire up whenever he gives the signal.
The young are being drawn in too, even forming campaign groups; Concerned Youth of America's activists "crusade against our leveraged future" wearing prison suits.
Mr. Rebell took the case in 1992, and they sought out Norman Fruchter, then an outspoken member of School Board 15 in Brooklyn Heights, and Noreen Connell, head of the Educational Priorities Panel, a watchdog group, and formed Campaign for Fiscal Equity.
Northants are hoping 'Boom Boom' can give them the explosive start they require to their short-form campaign.
They turned that into an art form in campaign after campaign".
Many -- including town officials and county legislators -- say they like his ideas, but some residents are already forming campaigns and circulating petitions to protest his plans.
