The Snoops are in Town

(snip)

Oh, yeah. The snoops are in town!

The other day a young woman stopped by Channel 17 on North Winooski Avenue. That’s our local government/public-access station on Burlington-area cable TV. Monica Lesmerises went through the station’s computerized logs trolling for tapes that included someone named “Howard Dean.” According to Channel Director Jess Wilson, there were 230 matches. Monica carefully selected 33 she wanted copied and shipped to her home in Washington, D.C.

Monday afternoon, every screen on every desk at Ch. 17 had Ho-Ho’s face on it as the copies were being run off. One pair of screens showed the boyish grin of the young governor debating Republican John McClaughry in 1992. McClaughry was as stern and stonefaced as a drugstore Indian. Howard just grinned. He simply couldn’t take McClaughry seriously. And neither did the voters. Dean cruised to a landslide win with 75 percent to GOP Johnny Think-Tanker’s 23 percent.

Ah! The good old days.

Naturally, Ms. Wilson was curious about the blonde scouring the Dean files. The obvious question was, who did Ms. Lesmerises work for?

Monica refused to say.

In our brave new Internet world, folks, secrets are but illusions.

As soon as Blonde Monica left, Director Jess typed her name into Google, the knower of all things knowable. In seconds she learned that Ms. Monica is a senior member of Rep. Dick Gephardt’s presidential campaign staff.

Small world, isn’t it?

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http://www.sevendaysvt.com/insidetrack/

I am shocked, shocked I say, that an upstanding democratic canidate like Gebhart would stoop to digging for dirt on our next elected president, Howard Dean. lol Seriously, a good read that cracked me up. Seems good to laugh sometimes. :bounce:

He should follow Dean's lead and hire telemarketers to do GOP style pushpolling. Call people at home in Iowa and apply negative reinforcement of the other Dem candidates. That's MUCH more modern, and obviously, acceptable to some Democrats.

Right on schedule! :-)

I've got my atomic clock set to it.

Why do pros like you need to pick on some liberal mom on a message board?

:-)


BTW...how about a link to back up your allegations re the polling?

It's archived, but, you can buy it if you want it.

"First phone attack

Straight-talking Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean is testing his attack message in Iowa. Political operatives say Dean's phone polling is probing for weaknesses in support for Sens. John Edwards and John Kerry and Rep. Dick Gephardt. For rookie pol Edwards, it's about experience. For Gephardt, it's his alliance with Bush on key issues. Questions about Kerry test Iowans' reaction to his vote backing the war in Iraq."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/archive/030512/12whisplead.php

" Howard Dean is polling Iowans on their views concerning his rivals for the Democratic nomination for president ..."

My, my...what will he think of next? Talking about the issues?

YOU may appreciate the heavy use of negative reinforcement of other Democrats. Many of us do not.

Do I look like a pro to you?

Interesting.

And, tell me, what color is the sky in your world?

:smoke:

This is just natural back and forth that we have going on. Longtime dynamic. No resentment. We'll get each other's backs after the primaries.