Reply #8: I am not off about his record

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He was for medicare cutshttp://www.politicsonline.us/archive/092803-howard_dean.htm
he wanted to raise the retirement age to 70 . “The way to balance the budget is for congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare, and veterans pensions...it would be tough, but we could do it.” -gov dean http://www.politicsonline.us/archive/092803-howard_dean.htm
he was pro business/anti environment Dean Set A Pro-Business Tone.
“ Stephanie Kaplan, a leading environmental lawyer and the former executive officer of Vermont's Environmental Board, has seen the regulatory process under Dean become so slanted against environmentalists and concerned citizens that she hardly thinks its worth putting up a fight anymore. ‘Under Dean the Act 250 process (Vermont's primary development review law) and the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) have lost their way,’ contends Kaplan. ‘Dean created the myth that environmental laws hurt the economy and set the tone to allow Act 250 and the ANR to simply be permit mills for developers.’”


Dean Helped IBM With Environmental Regulations.
“Business leaders were especially impressed with the way Dean went to bat for them if they got snarled in the state's stringent environmental regulations. ... IBM, by far the state's largest private employer, says it got kid-gloves treatment. ‘We would meet privately with him three to four times a year to discuss our issues,’ says John O'Kane, manager for government relations at IBM's Essex Junction plant, ‘and his secretary of commerce would call me once a week just to see how things were going.’”


IBM Plant Biggest Polluter in Vermont.
“ IBM's Essex Junction chip plant discharged the most of any Vermont company, releasing 213,446 pounds of chemicals, or 36 percent of the 591,790 pounds released in the state in 1999. … IBM released 170,000 pounds of nitrates in 1999. The chemical is discharged to the Winooski River with the company's wastewater. That discharge is up from the company's 1998 nitrate release of 140,000 pounds.


He is so pro gun he got an a rating from the NRA


I am supporting kucinich becauee he is the only moderate running
Letting people die because they cant afford healthcare is radical
free trade is radical (read SLAVERY and the selling out of america)
keeping the bloated pentagon budget is radical
I also believe the death penalty (a racist barbaric institution)is radical
of course i dont agree totally with his record but i find it more sensible than deans