Gov. Dean's Statement on "Clash" with Obama Advisors: "IT'S NOT TRUE"

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Gov. Dean's Statement on "Clash" with Obama Advisors
by samoashark
Mon Jan 12, 2009 at 08:29:02 PM PST

The Jan. 12th issue of the Samoa News (on line link not available) in Pago Pago, American Samoa published Gov. Dean's comments made in response to a direct question at a press conference Friday morning about media reports that he had "clashed" with Obama advisors and was asked not to attend the new conference on Wednesday where President-Elect Obama introduced Gov. Kaine as the new DNC Chair. This was Gov. Dean's response:

"As far as I know, it's not true. I have not clashed with Obama's advisors."

According the the report, Dean noted that he did clash with one of Obama's advisors but it occurred before the person became an advisor to Obama. He also said it would be very hard to change a trip to American Samoa for a press conference.

"You know, people like to say those kinds of things just to stir things up," Dean said. "I'm not interested in stirring things up. We have a lot of important problems in front of us and we need to deal with that...not gossip and the internet."

Gov. Dean also said that he didn't know if he was invited to the news conference because he was on his way to American Samoa when it happened.

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/12/23455/5870/...