[PJ-Comix]

This is sure to send Ketchup Boy into panic mode. Maybe he will hit up Mrs. Heinz for $50 million.

[South40]

This is sure to send Ketchup Boy into panic mode. Maybe he will hit up Mrs. Heinz for $50 million.

He didn't marry her for her looks!

[Miss Marple]

This poses an interesting question: how is Dean getting all this money? Normally the democrats are not very big with small donors. You can't convince me that this is legit.

Money deposited into a cooperating bank, which would then distribute the funds into a LOT of small credit card accounts which could then be automatically loaded at a predetermined time to donate to the Dean site...that's my guess.

All donations to be UNDER the $250 limit in which the FEC requires names and addresses. A big donor from a foreign country could do this with the help of a foreign bank, and who would know?

[Congressman Billybob]

Dean won't make this extraordinary goal. Nor will he make history by getting half of that. And fortunately, whatever he does raise will end up with him "wasting away in MikeDukakis-ville." One part of the story is correct. Dean is putting his financial hopes and needs for volunteers up front for everyone to see.

That one part I can agree with. Have a solid plan. Tell people what you're doing. Then do it. I've done that; and maybe, just maybe, I'll put volunteers and donations to better use than the "Good" doctor.

Get in touch with me.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "An Open Letter to Howard Dean," discussion thread on FR. Article is on ChronWatch also.

[Pukin Dog]

Common sense suggests that Dean would not be doing this, if the money was not already promised. Either that, or it is a HUGE PR gamble. I doubt it.

Dean's fundraising over the Internet is immune from public vetting and reporting. He could be getting money from outside the country just as easily as from inside the states and there is no one asking him to track the origin of those donations.

Laundering money through various sources would be very easy. Dean could have also been underreporting his fundraising to save up for a big PR moment when he announces that he has raised the 40 million. Great strategy, because no one would be the wiser.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

There is no way in hell there are 400,000 "Dean for America Volunteers"

My guess is if you visit the website your automatically a "Dean for America Volunteer" and even that wouldn't give you 400,000. It's probably the number of hits on the website which is a bogus number unless you're selling ad space.

[ahadams2]

outstanding! it is my fondest hope that Dean and Rev. Sharpton coral all the money and all the votes right up to the demoncratic convention. I can hardly wait to see Rev. Al driving around in a tank, or Dean crying because somebody insulted a relative....