XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JULY 06, 2003 19:30:25 ET XXXXX
DEAN WANTS TO CLEAN: WANTS MCAULIFFE OUT AT DNC
Presidential contender Howard Dean has confided to associates how he desires a fresh course for the Democratic National Committee, including a dramatic change in its leadership, specifically chairman Terry McAuliffe, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Sources close to the early-Democratic frontrunner reveal how Dean has bitterly complained about McAuliffe and the lackluster job he has done as chairman.
"We'll make a change there immediately [after the New Hampshire primary]," a top Dean source said of the DNC leadership. "I think it is important, as does Howard, to make a new beginning, cut ties from the past."
"Oil and water, those two," said one Washington observer of outsider Dean and insider McAuliffe.
"I was watching Terry going quietly mad, almost to the point of steam coming out of his ears, as Dean greatly exceeded the 2-minute time limit at the candidates' dog & pony show last week at the Mayflower Hotel."
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