Democratic Candidate Howard Dean

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first became Governor of Vermont in 1991 not by being elected but because the sitting Governor, Richard Snelling, died suddenly of heart failure. However, Dean was re-elected five times, in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000. He did not seek re-election in 2002. After his fourteen-year tenure as Governor of Vermont, Dean decided to step down from his office to chase after the big seat in the White House. He became the first democrat to formally enter the 2004 Presidential Race in May 2002.
Howard Dean was the Chair of the National Governor's Association from 1994-95 and served as Chair of the Democratic Governor's Association in 1997. He and his wife have two children. Officially a member of the Congregationalist Church, Dean has had no military experience at all.

Voting Records and Public Stands on the Issues:

Howard Dean's most famous and controversial political stance while serving as Governor of Vermont was his Civil Unions Bill passed in April of 2000. The law granted ...

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campaign for the presidency. The three main focuses of his campaign are opposition to the war in Iraq; balancing the budget, and health care reform. Dean has been the most outspoken of the Democratic candidates on the Iraq issue, lambasting the president for his involvement there. Dean does, however, support an increase in Homeland Security funding, and calls for the establishment of the Homeland Security Trust Fund.
Dean is strongly in favor of repealing the 2001 Bush tax cuts and is emphatic about balancing the federal budget. His record in Vermont as Governor is promising in this respect: Dean turned a $64 million dollar state deficit into a surplus; he did so even while cutting taxes ...

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