Did Howard Dean ever pay his staff?

JimVT | 02/12/05 | JimVT

[JimVT]

Did Dean pay his staff?

[JimVT]

I need a little help here, Freepers.

I seem to recall an article somewhere that when Dean realized that he was going nowhere near the presidency he decided to start a new effort to "energize" some other liberal-socialist faction to "Save America" or some such crap.

My recollection was that in order to get his new gig off the ground he needed money and therefore was NOT going to pay the staff people who had been busting their butts for him for a year.

I think this info might be useful to have "on file".

Anybody got any links or clues to the "no pay" issue?

[RWR8189]

He probably paid them eventually, he still has $885,679 on hand right now.

P R E S I D E N T I A L   C A N D I D A T E
Howard Dean (D)
Former Governor (Vermont)

A practicing physician, Howard Dean entered politics in 1982 with his election to the Vermont House of Representatives. He was later elected, and twice reelected, lieutenant governor. He became governor in 1991 when the incumbent died in office. As governor, Dean styled himself as a fiscal conservative who balanced the state’s budget, and a social liberal who fought for environmental protection and gay rights. He was governor until 2002. Dean dropped out of the presidential race Feb. 18, 2004

 

Total Receipts: $52,962,098
Total Spent: $52,076,420
Cash on Hand: $885,679
Debts: $253,429
Date of last report: November 30, 2004
All totals include compliance fund receipts

Source of Funds:
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		Individual contributions	$51,361,989	97%
		PAC contributions	$15,500	0%
		Candidate self-financing	$0	0%
		Federal Funds	$0	0%
		Other	$1,584,609	3%

PAC Contribution Breakdown:
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		Business	$700	5%
		Labor	$250	2%
		Ideological/Single Issue	$13,323	93%

 

Quality of Disclosure:
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		Full Disclosure	$19,079,564	(92.6%)
		Incomplete	$76,649	(0.4%)
		No Disclosure	$1,442,490	(7.0%)

 

[Cableguy]

I am pretty sure he paid off everyone. You don't get elected to DNC w/ something like that. GOP would have hit him over the head with that everyday.

[JerseyHighlander]

There was an NYTimes Magazine article, and a Wired magazine article about it. Almost all of Dean's/Trippi's tech people were unpaid volunteers living on small stipends, don't know about district/state campaign staffs though.

[Vince Ferrer]

GOP would have hit him over the head with that everyday.

Only if the GOP didn't want him elected. Now they might use it.

[festus]

Why would the GOP care if he gains power in the DNC ?

Would seem counter productive to attack him. With Dean in charge we're better off letting him go and just keep payin out rope.........

[Cableguy]

GOP wants him in charge. Then next year before elections, they would use that fact to hammer him and Dems. How can you cheat your staff out of their wages, Dr. Dean?....

[Cicero]

I don't know how many paid staff he had. He was blessed with a lot of volunteers--I know a couple of them.