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To: American Spirit who wrote (2655)	12/13/2003 5:22:15 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 90947

Dean Faces New Attack, This One on Tax Policy By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD oward Dean encountered fresh assaults yesterday from Democratic rivals who accused him of hypocrisy for crying out against tax cuts for the wealthy as a presidential candidate after promoting tax breaks for corporations when he was governor of Vermont. The sharpest criticism on the issue came from Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, who is locked in a close race with Dr. Dean for the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 19, the first voting in the nomination process. While that attack flared, another Dean rival, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, attacked on a second front, using a speech in San Francisco to press his effort portraying himself as the positive, optimistic alternative to an angry Dr. Dean, while flinging veiled barbs his way. nytimes.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (2655)	12/13/2003 5:24:06 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 90947

His opponents said his support for the Vermont program stood in contrast to his current complaints about the Bush administration's giving tax breaks to large corporate interests. One candidate, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, issued a statement titled "Dean Wanted Vermont to Become Domestic Bermuda & Permit Corporations to Avoid Paying Their Fair Share." And in a conference call with reporters, Mr. Gephardt said: "Governor Dean has been engaging in a gross hypocrisy. While he attacks George Bush's special treatment of Enron, he's been hiding the fact that he turned Vermont into a tax shelter for that very same corporate criminal." Dr. Dean seemed exasperated with the attacks. When a reporter asked about the issue at a campaign appearance in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he replied, "Don't do the other campaigns' work for them."