Presidential hopeful Howard Dean gets a big show of support in S.F.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/07/DEAN.TMP

Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean -- showered with enthusiasm by 1,100 service workers in San Francisco on Saturday -- charged that Republican candidate for governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been wrong to dismiss "hard-working Americans" as "special interests."

Dean received a standing ovation from the Service Employees International Union Local 250 convention Saturday at the Marriott Hotel and received an equally enthusiastic reception at an impromptu rally for 600 supporters in Yerba Buena Gardens. Amid a sea of support signs, one read: "Maybe we won't have to go to Canada after all."

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Surrounded by union supporters in San Francisco on Saturday, Dean was asked his reaction to Schwarzenegger's contention that he would accept no money from such unions because they constitute a ''special interest" group.

Dean looked at the women surrounding him at the podium, and recited their occupations: nurses' aides, food service workers, and physical therapists.

"Not exactly special interests," Dean said wryly. "I call them hard working Americans. And their tax money got taken away so it could go to (Enron head) Ken Lay and Arnold Schwarzenegger. . . . I wonder how big his tax cut was?"

thank you for the report.

"They're not only going to vote for a Democratic president, they're going to vote to send (House Republican leader) Tom Delay back to Texas."

He knows that the Dems need to retake Congres, or at least one House of Congress next year along with the White House. And in 2006, President Dean will lead the expelling of the Repukes from the other House. I don't seee both houses of Congress falling into Dem hands next year, but we could regain the Senate.

Plus he's accusing the rightwingnuts of disrupting democracy in California and other states, as well as stealing the election in 2000.

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consistently the man.

Peace:kick:

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I will tell him that you are all proud of him!

If I get the chance, I am going to personally thank him for standing up against the recall and for clearly laying it at the feet of Bush & Rove.

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