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Sharing the dirt on Dean. Big Labor post-Gephardt. Raggedy Dean. Rank Clark.
p> SHARING THE DIRT br> For all the talk about Wesley Clark staying out of Iowa, he sure had a hand in the derailment there of Vermont Gov. Howie Dean . According to several sources in the John Kerry and John Edwards campaigns, much of the opposition research on Dean that flooded the caucus landscape came from people connected to the Clark campaign. /p>

"It wasn't just Clark, though," says a Kerry staffer. "We know of at least two different stories that came from people currently on staff with the DNC, who fed the material to reporters."

According to the staffer, those stories involved furthering the already mushrooming Dean controversy over his accepting speaking fees from drug companies, as well documents that revealed Dean's deliberations as governor on healthcare issues.

"These are folks who worked for Clinton back in '92 and '96 and in the administration, who are helping their friends in the Clark camp," says the Edwards staffer. "We know who they are, and while we're not helping them, we're not trying to stop them either."

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louis vuitton| 4.26.10 @ 11:30PM

Two unrelated bits not directly related to the Mount Pleasant caucus. Howard Dean never realized the extent to which his arrogance may have hurt him. A few days ago he started running a radio ad that began, canada goose "Sometimes in our nation's history, one man of courage who stands up makes a difference."

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