Dean Ruled From the Fiscal Center in Vermont

[realFedUp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-vermont1dec01,1,610705.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Dean Ruled From the Fiscal Center in Vermont

By Elizabeth Mehren
Times Staff Writer

December 1, 2003

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Soon after he won his first election as Vermont's governor in 1992, Democrat Howard Dean summoned his party's leadership to his Capitol office here and delivered a lecture worthy of any tightfisted Republican.

The financier-turned-physician-turned-politician sternly warned that whatever lofty goals the legislators had in mind — expanding preschool education, providing universal health care or toughening environmental laws — none of it would happen if voters did not trust them with their money.

"He told us that the No. 1 concern for Democrats was how we handled the public purse," said former state Rep. Dick McCormack. "In many ways, that defined his whole administration."

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Dean was known on the ice for his "cut and thrust" technique, said Willard Sterne Randall, a professor at Vermont's Champlain College. The same determination marked his style as governor, Randall said.

"Dean is a bulldog," he said. "He keeps after things. He is driven, and he knows just what he wants."
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[mzmolly]

1. We could use a bit ot that 'fiscal center' now ey?

:)

[demnan]

2. Hey that's our money

Let someone use it wisely for a change. Give us health care and cut the stupid stuff.

[Larkspur]

3. And Dean was right about Dems and the Public Purse

The financier-turned-physician-turned-politician sternly warned that whatever lofty goals the legislators had in mind — expanding preschool education, providing universal health care or toughening environmental laws — none of it would happen if voters did not trust them with their money.

I don't support "tax and spend" liberal Democrats any more than I support "Red Ink" Republicans.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. most of what this guy does is worthy of a Republican

most all of it.