| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Budget & Economy
Retired VT's debt and built nation's best rainy day fund.
Kept GOP predecessor’s agenda of fiscal frugality.
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Civil Rights
Gay rights are a matter of principle.
Black roommate at Yale defined his views on tolerance.
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Crime
Opposed capital punishment but shifted beginning in 1994.
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Education
High national standards but local sanctions for failure.
Dean’s other landmark VT bill: education finance.
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Energy & Oil
Wind energy reduces global warming & reduces Saudi imports.
10% ethanol in gasoline reduced oil imports by 5%.
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Environment
470,000 conservation acres, but many development deals too.
Make trade-offs on environmental protection vs. development.
Dean’s first campaign in 1982 focused on bicycle paths.
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Gun Control
Agrees on some issues with NRA, but some gun control.
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Health Care
Supported single-payer in 1980s, but multi-payer in 1990s.
If you want total healthcare reform, I’m not your guy.
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Homeland Security
Realign defense funds away from Star Wars.
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Jobs
Trade unions gave us our middle class.
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Principles & Values
Models his candidacy on Harry S Truman.
I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
Dean surge spawned Clark as Anybody-But-Dean.
Dean fueled by large dissident group of Bush haters.
Dean’s forthrightness differs from Dem party calculatedness.
Liberal in attitude, not in policy positions.
Propelled to public service by death of his brother?
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Tax Reform
Rescind all of the Bush tax cuts, to balance budget.
Better off with government services than with a $650 tax cut.
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War & Peace
Evenhandedness in Israel doesn’t imply cater to Palestinians.
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Welfare & Poverty
Implemented VT workfare program along Clinton's lines.
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