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To: Sully- who wrote (716)	12/31/2003 8:35:39 PM
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Howard Dean, Populist OK, it's not exactly a log cabin, but in a New York Times profile, Howard Dean's mom labors mightily to paint a humble picture of her son's background: The Park Avenue building where Howard Dean grew up has a neurologist's office on the ground floor and a church just behind. His mother, Andree Maitland Dean, is eager to emphasize that the family's three-bedroom apartment there is not luxurious. "Look around," Mrs. Dean said in a recent interview, gesturing at the quarters where her boys grew up. "Howard didn't have the least bit of a glamorous upbringing." Explaining that every time she had a baby, the dining room would serve as a bedroom for the newborn and his nurse, she concluded, "I don't think we could even keep up with the Bushes." . . . Mrs. Dean sees her son's unpretentiousness as something he learned at home, pointing out that her own parents taught her to treat people in an egalitarian way. "When I was growing up," she said, "we didn't even treat the servants like servants." No wonder he's so down to earth! On Dean's official campaign blog, Britt Blaser of New York for Dean quotes Janet Purdy, who attended a Dean "house party," as saying: "I have a friend who is 84 and a former captain of the polo team at Yale. He told me, 'I've voted Republican all my life. In 2004, I'm voting Democrat.' " Plainly Dean's common touch is paying off politically. Best of the Web Today - December 31, 2003 By JAMES TARANTO