aren't getting along very well. why else would such a pitiful article be written? no doubt, there are some who don't like dean regardless if he had a halo or not. but all i can say, as it is now, with the same big money cats callin the shots, we will continue to lose again and again. my suggestion to dean: stay true. and expose the lies. make values your base. build a new party because the one we have now died in 2000.
One hundred days into his tenure as the high-energy, higher-decibel chairman of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean is in trouble with party moneybags. The former Vermont governor seems to be doing a better job flaying the Republicans than bridging the cash chasm between the parties. Given Dean's 2004 run as a populist crusader, moderates were never wild about his takeover of the Democratic National Committee. So some big donors are sitting on their wallets.
Dean wowed the faithful in '04 with his Web-based fund-raising magic. But major business donors still count, and in his new role as party honcho, the feisty doctor seems to be struggling to connect. After achieving money parity with the GOP in 2004, Democrats have fallen far behind. According to the Federal Election Commission, the DNC raised $14.1 million in the first quarter of 2005, vs. the Republican National Committee's $32.3 million. Dean drew about 20,000 new donors, while his rivals picked up 68,200. The bottom line: Republicans have $26.2 million in the bank vs. $7.2 million for the Dems.
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businessweekoh, but a quick look at actual FEC reports
http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?C00010603
shows that Dean has raised more money in an off year than any DNC Chair in history.
First Quarter of 2005 - $16.7 million
Q1/2004 - $28.7 million (presidential election year)
Q1/2003 - $8.7 million
Q1/2002 - $11.8
And Dean is on pace to break the midyear fundraising of $23.7 in the first six months of 2001. "
--courtesy of
lojasmo
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