Teachout named two prominent bloggers in particular: Jerome Armstrong of myDD.com and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos. "On Dean's campaign, we paid Markos and Jerome Armstrong as consultants, largely in order to ensure that they said positive things about Dean. We paid them over twice as much as we paid two staffers of similar backgrounds, and they had several other clients," Teachout wrote. "While they ended up also providing useful advice, the initial reason for our outreach was explicitly to buy their airtime. To be very clear, they never committed to supporting Dean for the paymentbut it was very clearly, internally, our goal." In the past, Teachout has also fingered Matthew Gross for writing about Erskine Bowles while Gross was on the candidate's payroll.
Speaking of Dean .. didn't he just have a pow wow with a few millionaires over the weekend?
HOWARD DEAN (D)
Expenditures
2003-2004 Cycle
Armstrong Zuniga, LLC, Vancouver, WA
$7,000
11/20/2003
Consulting/Technology
Armstrong Zuniga, LLC, Vancouver, WA
$3,000
11/4/2003
Consulting/Technology
Armstrong Zuniga, LLC, Vancouver, WA
$3,000
1/28/2004
Consulting/Technology
Armstrong Zuniga, LLC, Vancouver, WA
$3,000
1/28/2004
Consulting/Technology