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Gephardt Response to "Confederate Flag" Statement by Dean

Date: Nov. 1, 2003
Issues: Guns


November 1, 2003 

"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," [former VT Governor Howard] Dean said Friday in a telephone interview from New Hampshire. "We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats." [Des Moines Register, Beaumont, 11/01/03]

Washington, DC - Rep. Dick Gephardt today issued the following statement in response to comments by former Governor Howard Dean reported in today's Des Moines Register.

"I don't want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. I will win the Democratic nomination because I will be the candidate for the guys with American flags in their pickup trucks.

"Apparently, Governor Dean believes that if we sacrifice our support for reasonable gun legislation like the assault weapons ban, we will win the support of those that disagree with us on bedrock Democratic values like civil rights. I absolutely disagree with him."

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