Washington Prowler
Green Attractions
Howie’s new phonemate. Ralph Nader’s hex on Howie. John Breaux to cash in. Plus more.
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POWER BEHIND THE THRONE
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Howie Dean
called
Al Gore
on
Sunday morning, and asked him for assistance in re-tooling the
foreign policy speech the former Vermont governor made on Monday in
California. The two men now speak at least once a day, and Gore
seems — at least to longtime Dean staffers and advisers — to have
taken on senior policy adviser status in the eyes of the
candidate.
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“Gore really seems to have taken to the notion that he is helping steer a successful campaign,” says a Dean adviser in Washington. “He even made some suggestions about changing our bumper-sticker and yard-sign designs. Maybe it’s a vicarious thing or something.”
p> NADER REDUX br> Democrats in Washington are once again getting nervous about a threatened run for president by Green Party factotum Ralph Nader . The consumer guru turned political hack cut into Democrat Al Gore
