GOV. HOWIE SOLD STOX AFTER GETTING INSIDE INFO

New York Post ^ | 1/05/04 | DEBORAH ORIN

[kattracks]

January 5, 2004 -- DES MOINES, Iowa-Howard Dean acknowledged yesterday that he sold $15,000 in stock in five Vermont banks in 1991 after getting "inside information" from a state banking regulator soon after he became Vermont governor. Dean yesterday portrayed the sale as a bid to avoid a conflict of interest - not an attempt to profit from inside information.

[onyx]

Have at it. :)

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[AmericaUnited]

A Dean spokesman said that in a few days, the candidate will go through his tax records to see if he can determine which bank stocks he owns.

A wiley dodge! We want to know - WHAT DID HE SELL AND WHEN DID HE SELL IT?

[BigSkyFreeper]

Makes one wonder what's inside those sealed records of his.

[Fledermaus]

Oh who cares? Howard Dean is getting away with murder because, frankly, the Democratic party is dying and not worth life support. Regardless of all the whiners that "worry" about the death of a two party system.

The Dems have to cling onto anyone they nominate because they are all phonies and liars. No matter what, once Dean wins the nomination, all the rest of the worthless Dems will fall in line kissing his butt and declaring him a saint and their saviour out of the minority.

Lieberman is a whore, selling himself to any trick that comes up the the money and willing to do anything they ask regardless of decades of pretending to be principled.

John F'ing Kerry was, is, and always will be a joke. All he needs for immortality is to drown a woman in his car.

John Edwards is the new kid on the block and probably campaigns with cases of KY jelly.

Dickless Gephardt has changed his positions so many times over the last 20 years he comes off like Michael Jackson before all the facelifts and turning white. I'm surprised he doesn't blame his bad performance this year on being forced to sing as a child.

Wes Clark is a cardboard cutout incapable of independent thought. This guy has most of his medals and ribbons hiding in his colon.

The rest of the pack should have been killed off months ago, but the Dems are so splintered and so shameless they still let a Jew hating, riot invoking jerk like Al Sharpton in on the game. Talk about weak. I still expect Sharton and Carol to hold hands and sing, "We're moving on up! To the Big Time...we've finally got a piece of the guilty liberal white man's pie"!

But, as usual, what is really, really, really sad is that in today's non-political environment where a majority of our fellow IDIOTS get their news from Leno or Letterman, Dean or whomever has a chance.

I'll post this thought again (and I don't care how many complain)...the vast majority of the MORONS that don't care to fight, don't want to fight, don't believe in terrorists wanting to kill us, couldn't care less about taking the fight to an enemy they can't see...they live in the same cities and areas the terrorist will bomb.

So why should I care? Let's say Osama blows up a nuclear weapon in NY city. That's about 6 million dead liberals that hate George Bush and think he's evil.

The same with DC, San Francisco, Chicago, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Houston, etc. They hate Bush, they hate the idea of fighting for our freedom, they reject the idea there are 3rd century towelheads trying to kill us, they blame it all on "neoconservatives", and they LOVE Howard Dean.

Fine...they will die before I ever will. The terrorist, if you haven't noticed, are going after the BLUE areas. The Gore areas. The Dean lovers.

So why do I care? If they throw Bush out of office in 2004 and do nothing, which of course is their MO, then they are going to die before me.

No loss in my opinion.

[Liz]

Insider profiteering? Shades of Hitlery.

I wish the Dumbocrats would come up with a new act.

[syriacus]

It's obvious that Dr. Dean took the Hypocrisy Oath.

[tet68]

Mr. Dean, meet the kiss of political death.

Shocked, Shocked to think that a governor would receive
inside information, shocked!

[mabelkitty]

Well, well, well.
Martha Stewart should be whining about special treatment to Elite Eastern Seaboard White Male not being brought up on charges, but rather running for President.

What a scumbag.

[syriacus]

Dean sold off stocks as governor

    Some Vermont banks were experiencing financial problems about the time that Mr. Dean became governor unexpectedly after the death of his predecessor, Richard Snelling, in August 1991.

    Bank assets in the state declined from 1990 to 1991 and fell even more in the first part of the next year, dropping 1.7 percent through three quarters of 1992. Nonperforming loans doubled from 1987, to $239 million by the end of 1991.

    The results were weakened capital positions, suspension of dividends and "plunging stock prices at almost all the large and medium-sized Vermont banks," Vermont Business Magazine reported in December 1992.

    Mr. Dean revealed his sale of the bank stocks in a 1994 interview with the same magazine, telling an interviewer that he sold his shares because the state official who regulates banks "came over one day and said, 'Here's the inside report on all the banks,' and I went 'Yikes.' "

    Mr. Dean added a few details in yesterday's statement, but did not characterize the nature of the "inside report."

 

[Iowa Granny]

Well, for Goodness Sakes. Who would have thought it?

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Hey, this is in the best of Demo traditions (and probably explains part of Gov. Dean's "seal my records for 25 years" bit). Recall Hillary's money manager SHORTING pharmaceutical stocks (as they were melting down) as Hillary's secret "take over and antionalize the healthcare industry" task force was doing its evil work. Of course, she never was challenged on that one... her assets just hadn't been put in the blind-trust yet. How Convenient!

There's alot of Hillary in our friend, Dizzy Howard Dean.

[Maigrey]

Goodness! Did someone water down your coffee?

I do care if someone blows a tactical, or dirty nuclear device, even if it is in some liberal rathole. Those people, even with the ones you so desperately disagree with, are still Americans, and deserve a fighting chance also. Whether you think they do or don't remains to be seen, since you aren't in charge of the master button.

Disagree all you like, and fight politically, and spar verbally, but when you advocate say that the loss of 6 million people to a slow, agonizing death, simply because they disagree with you politically and socially, then you are no worse than the rats you are saying we should go after.

[Grampa Dave]

RTH posted :Hey, this is in the best of Demo traditions (and probably explains part of Gov. Dean's "seal my records for 25 years" bit). Recall Hillary's money manager SHORTING pharmaceutical stocks (as they were melting down) as Hillary's secret "take over and antionalize the healthcare industry" task force was doing its evil work. Of course, she never was challenged on that one... her assets just hadn't been put in the blind-trust yet. How Convenient!

Bingo! Dean's actions are shades of $inator Hildebea$t as the co president during the illegal attempted seizure of the nation's pharmaceutical companies, Shades of Martha, and Shades of the many rat crooks in jail and heading to jail for insider selling.

[kattracks]

Thanks. What about the people like me, who live in a Blue area and do our best to combat "the vast majority of the MORONS that don't care to fight, don't want to fight, don't believe in terrorists wanting to kill us, couldn't care less about taking the fight to an enemy they can't see"?

And what makes you think that an attack on those whom you consider expendable won't eventually affect you?

You're no better than the rats you claim to hate.

[onyx]

BINGO is right! WTG you two! Another reason for his sealed records.

[Grampa Dave]

Also, this is another reason why when conservatives say, "Let Martha go!", we must say, "Hell No!".

[the invisib1e hand]

this sort of thing only matters when conservatives do it.

[RockChucker]

Please don't be afraid to speak your mind.