Happy Birthday Howard Dean and Ruben Gallego

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2. I quite agree, and it's not just the personal relationship.

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Howard had the energy, the idealism and the dedication. Rahm’s denying him the HHS position as revenge for being right about the 50 state strategy was one of the most shameful moments in 21st century Democratic history. In the nearly 17 years since what SHOULD have been Howard’s cabinet post was given to Gov. Sibelius of Kansas, Howard never ONCE trashed Rahm for it publicly. Years before that, Howard never once publicly trashed Bernie Sanders over their dispute over whether or not to turn some park land near the Lake in Burlington over to some housing developers, or leave it as parkland for the city. That discussion got rather heated, too, and Bernie wouldn’t speak to Howard for four years afterward. But Howard nrings it up. Water flowed into lake, of you will.