Posted on 01/15/2004 2:29:50 PM PST by billorites
He's a hardheaded penny-pincher, she's a publicity-shy doctor. PEOPLE magazine sat down with Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean, 55, and his wife, Judy, 50, for their first joint interview. Read 17 things we learned about him, then peruse the exclusive transcript.
1. He calls his wife "sweetie"; she calls him "Howie."
2. He wore his prom tuxedo to one of President Clinton's White House state dinners to save money, but coughed and split his pants and had to be escorted home by state troopers covering his posterior.
3. His staff forced him to buy a new suit at Paul Stuart in New York for the campaign (it cost $800). "It nearly killed me."
4. He always turns off the lights when he walks out of a room. He used to get into fights with his wife about turning up the heat in the winter, so now she pays the bill so he doesn't have to see it.
5. The last sitcom he watched was All in the Family in its original run.
6. He is compulsive about recycling. Once he picked up every newspaper off an airplane at the end of a flight and hauled them to a recycling center. He also does recycling inspections of his staffer's bins.
7. He insists that paper in his office be printed on both sides.
8. He likes Outkast and Wyclef Jean (his son's music) as well as Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead.
9. He fixes the toilet at home; plumbing is his "therapy."
10. He never takes taxis or limos. In New York City he takes the subway.
11. Asked his favorite food indulgence, he responds: fish. (He later amends this to chocolate chip cookies.)
12. He drinks generic ginger ale and snacks to save money.
13. He plays the guitar and harmonica. He sings '60s folk tunes (see: Peter, Paul and Mary above.)
14. Despite his reservations about cost, he was finally persuaded to take his shirts to the dry cleaner last year. He used to just throw them in the wash.
15. As the governor of Vermont, he drove himself and pumped his own gas.
16. He has been known to tape his shoes together.
17. He wears '70s-style gold-rimmed glasses that he won't update; his wife carries a purse covered in pen marks. They are both devoted discount shoppers ...
've got no problem with wealth --I want more money-- but the motives of this piece are so transparent it's plain sickening.
To be taken in by this balderdash you'd have to be dumb enough.....to read People, I guess...
I am sure you meant to say ball bearings, at least I hope you did.
I'll bet he was able to prove through geometric logic that the strawberries....
GWB would have gotten lambasted for this. In fact, didn't Bush get nailed in the press for not having seen a movie in years??
He has been known to tape his shoes together.
Tiring of this activity, along with serving peanuts, he decided to get into politics.
No, I've thought the same about them over the years. It's sort of a false pride. Mom loves to "brag" about how poor they were when she was a kid during the depression. And they really weren't compared to so many. They certainly never went hungry and they all got sent to college.
Uhh...yeah, that's what I meant.
Sounds like he's compulsive about a lot of things. I'd say whatever anti-anxiety drug he's been taking isn't quite strong enough. Try the super-duper strength Paxil, Howie.
Can you even imagine working for a micro-managing buttwipe like that?
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