Reply #4: Poor Dean...visiting relatives, getting R&R, a fundraiser by himself?

[madfloridian]

I was just reading that article and wondering why in the world?

This is pathetic. What makes it so sad is that Trauner sought Dean out and now sounds just like Freudenthal.

Are they really that afraid of Democrats like Dean going to Wyoming? It was posted at Kos by Kos himself for goodness sake.

Here is a Kos diary about Trauner, so it is no big secret if it was posted at Kos. This makes me sad that they act like this.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/17/135645/392

"I was going door to door, and I felt like I was in this little bubble and no one knew what I was doing," Trauner says. "I told Mike , `Get me 15 minutes in front of whoever you can, because I want them to know what I'm up to."

Trauner got an audience with Dean and stressed why the DNC chairman should support him with a business-based argument.

"This is essentially a cheap seat; this is not a $10 million race or even a $5 million race and so the return on the investment could be huge, because, let's face it, a seat is a seat," Trauner says."I wanted their financial support, but I also wanted them to know that I am not going to agree with Howard Dean or a someone from Massachusetts on everything. I am a pro-business, pro-gun Democrat.

The next day, the DNC featured Trauner on the opening page of its Web site. Shortly after, a Rasmussen Reports poll showed Trauner to be tied with Cubin 47 percent to 43 percent, (with a 4 percent margin of error) and Congressional Quarterly changed its status of the race from "Safe Republican" to "Republican Favored."