Heres a nifty little piece on McAuliffe teamsters bribes & troubles with the grassroots.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14038-2004Jul25.html

But McAuliffe has not always enjoyed such a lofty standing in his party. Just six years ago, he struggled to survive federal investigations of illicit Teamsters campaign contributions to the party and his fund raising role as national finance chairman and then national co-chairman of the 1996 Clinton-Gore reelection campaign.

McAuliffe reconsidered after he was absolved of any wrongdoing. In 2001, with a helpful nudge from Bill Clinton, he was elected Democratic National Committee chairman, only to become the target of grass-roots fury. Loyal Democrats, dismayed by the election of George W. Bush, complained that their leaders in Congress were acceding to the new Republican president on everything from Iraq to tax cuts. The outrage fueled demands that McAuliffe resign after the party lost House and Senate seats in the 2002 election.

You know the book has to have attacks on Dean and the grassroots.



Kerry has nice things to say about him in this piece, but this goes to show what kind of a guy he is.