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To: Neeka who wrote (10467)	10/2/2003 10:11:24 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793843

Bush's brother goes after Dean - Does the Remark fit some of our posters? :>) ______________________________ POLITICS Gov. Bush ridicules Dean Florida's governor labels Vermont's ex-governor a presidential candidate for 'hot, angry people that aren't rational.' BY PETER WALLSTEN Miami Herald pwallsten@herald.com TAMPA - Gov. Jeb Bush unleashed a river of ridicule Wednesday at the expense of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, the Democratic front-runner in the race to challenge Bush's presidential brother next year for the White House. The Florida governor chided Dean for having led a tiny state ''half the size of Miami-Dade County,'' labeling him a candidate for ``hot, angry people that aren't rational.'' Dean, whose campaign has raised record millions of dollars due largely to his vocal opposition to President Bush's war in Iraq and other policies, has surged to a lead among Democratic voters in early primary states. His rivals say that Dean may be too liberal to win a general election contest against the president; but as a candidate, he has stunned his party's establishment by drawing crowds as large as 10,000 people while touring the country. He has raised more than $20 million, much of it in small increments over the Internet. ''Dean's my man. I'm a big Dean guy,'' said Gov. Bush, his voice dripping with the kind of sarcasm he has often used to chide political opponents. ``I think being governor of a state that's got a budget half the size of Miami-Dade County makes him imminently qualified to be the Democratic candidate.'' Gov. Bush, appearing Wednesday at a Tampa hotel with officials from his brother's reelection campaign, made his remarks following the formal news conference -- after a Herald reporter inquired who the strongest Democratic challenger to the president would be. The governor then referred to a protester who disrupted the event by charging the stage full of GOP dignitaries and Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlman, asking, ``What planet are you on?'' ''I bet he's a Dean supporter,'' Bush said. ``The hot, angry people that aren't rational and are screaming and hollering, they may be drawn toward the Dean candidacy because he's focused his campaign on trying to connect with that anger, which is a small part of the population of our country.'' Responded Dean campaign spokeswoman Courtney O'Donnell: ``It's unfortunate that Gov. Bush finds balanced budgets to be a laughing matter. It's understandable that he would, given that his brother's administration has run up record deficits while three million jobs have been lost. Those folks must be angry.'' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2003 The Miami Herald and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. miami.com