by Paul Dame
Over the weekend former DNC Chairman Howard Dean indicated he was considering a run for Governor. VTGOP Chairman Paul Dame issued the following statement:
”This is certainly strange news. We know that Democrats have had a hard time running a candidate against American’s most popular Governor, Phil Scott, but reaching back in history to dust off Howard Dean seems like a real reach. This news also seems to make it even less likely that Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger will be running, since news of Dean would only cast a shadow on Miro’s efforts and set expectations too high for Miro.”
“But there is no better candidate to represent the Democratic Party than Howard Dean. Both have undergone an incredible transformation that leaves the barely recognizable from the 1990s. When he was Governor Howard Dean was known to “cut to the bone” in state spending. But shortly after that he became a radical and progressive firebrand that left many of his Vermont supporters confused and abandoned. After a turn as Chairman of the DNC the question Vermonters should ask is whether he is going to bring more of the toxic Washington-based tactics of the National Democratic party back to Vermont? It’s hard to tell which Howard Dean Vermonters would be in for, the man who modelled his first term after Republican Governor Dick Snelling – or the eccentric, scream-famous Progressive who seems to have a problem controlling his temper.”
“Another reason Dean may decide against running is he will have to answer for a number of his bizarre statements on a wide range of issues from his time as DNC Chair and after when he thought he’d never be accountable to voters again.”
Dean rage-quits Twitter
https://www.wcax.com/2022/04/26/dean-says-so-long-twitter-news-musk-deal/
Dean doesn’t understand the first amendment
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/357553/howard-dean-has-no-idea-what-hes-talking-about-on-the-first-amendment/
Dean harasses press about weird Clinton news story
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/03/howard-dean-fake-news-clinton-2016-1144297
Uncommitteed: Dean decided to run for DNC Chair again, and then backed out
https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/02/politics/howard-dean-drops-out-dnc-race/index.html
The author is the chairman of the Vermont Republican Party.