BusinessWeek: Dean "...not a liberal...pro-business, Rockefeller Repub..."

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This BusinessWeek article mostly praises Dean for his attention to business concerns. (And that's probably not a bad thing in the business press.) Here's a sample excerpt:

Conservative Vermont business leaders praise Dean's record and his unceasing efforts to balance the budget, even though Vermont is the only state where a balanced budget is not constitutionally required. Moreover, they argue that the two most liberal policies adopted during Dean's tenure -- the "civil unions" law and a radical revamping of public school financing -- were instigated by Vermont's ultraliberal Supreme Court rather than Dean. "He was not a left-wing wacko," says Bill Stenger, a Republican and president of Jay Peak Resort, who says he supported Dean because of his "fiscally responsible, socially conscious policies."