MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) Former presidential candidate Howard Dean is considering a bid to become chairman of the national Democratic Party.
Steve Grossman, himself a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Dean had told him he was thinking about it.
Dean was traveling today in New York and unavailable for comment. His spokeswoman, Laura Gross, said ``it was far too early to be speculating on that.''
The 240 members of the Democratic National Convention will elect a new chair early next year. Several names are already being mentioned, including former Clinton aide Harold Ickes; Donna Brazile, who ran Al Gore's presidential campaign, and Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack.
Dean has been outspoken since the beginning of his presidential bid in saying that the Democratic Party must establish a separate and unique identity from Republicans.
The next chairman will replace Terry McAuliffe, whose term is ending.
Dean isn't half as crazy as the people around him made him look, but considering what happened to his campaign, he might not be the best choice to run the DNC, which is about administration and strategy, not passion. Vilsack might be a better choice.
I would say if a Senate seat opens up in Vermont, Dean should go for that. He'd run away with it and he'd have the seat virtually for life if he wanted it.
Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves…We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.--Ada Louise Huxtable, "Farewell to Penn Station", New York Times editorial, 30 October 1963 X-Ray Blues
I would say he's better than that hatfucker McCauliffe. McCauliffe is one creepy dude - when he does TV interviews, it looks like somebody doped him up full of prozac before he went on stage.
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