Reply #53: Dean has been a political insider all his career [View All]

[Nicholas_J]

You don't think his campaigns as govenror were run on money from grassroots efforts. No Dean got 65 percent of his money for every run as Governor from either speical interests outside of Vermont or from the DNC with DLC authorization:

The influence of out-of-state donations: "Outside money is one of Howard Dean's specialties. Of the $ 312,290 the governor raised for his 1996 election, 65 percent came from out-of-state contributors: labor unions, Washington lawyer-lobbyists, the health care industry, to name a few of the special interests." n13 For the 1994 election "Dean, for example, received more money from major pharmaceutical manufacturers during the reporting period ($ 11,000) thin he did from people and companies located in Burlington ($ 10,460)." n14 One editorial said, "it's no mystery why out-of-state contributors pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into Vermont campaigns. ... They're trying to buy influence. But the cost is public trust." n15

http://www.brookingsinstitution.org/dybdocroot/gs/cf/headlines/cases/LandellvSorrell.DOC

The real tale of a Vermont Politician who cnanot be bougt is the story of Anthony Pollina, who without accepting a dime from special interests, corners 25 percent in every Vermont Election he runs in and in fact, many Vermonters abandoned Deans conservative, political insider run government in order to back Pollina, resulting in Pollina Pulling 10 percnt of the vote from Dean in 2000, and 25 percent of the vote in the 2002 run for Lt Governor. Pollina is the future of the third party movement in American.

Trippi and Grossman set up a very clever campaign of attarcting the disaffected, but they had to create a Dean that did not exist in history. THis more than anything caused Deans downfall, the real Dena just could not help from popping out from behind the persona created for him by Trippi. When Trippi left, there was no one to restrain Dean, and his campaign collapsed.