More interesting Kerry info below. The gist: a Kerry smear caller was caught on tape claiming that Dean was an "environmental racist" (because Vermont's nuclear waste was dumped in Texas, at a site that Dean had no role in selecting and no ability to influence).

Kerry's campaign fired the push-poller, claiming that it was a terrible mistake for a young person to make to utter such claims about Dean. But this was pure hypocrisy, because Kerry himself had made the same charges. Below are an excerpt from ABC about the caller, and from the Des Moines register about Kerry's own unfair attack.

From ABC:

But two nights ago, Cornell College psychology professor Suzette Astley, a Dean volunteer in Lisbon, Iowa, received a phone call from a Kerry's Cedar Rapids headquarters in which, she says, a Kerry volunteer had some less than kind things to say about Dean regarding his foreign policy experience, being from a largely white state, and so-called "environmental racism."

Since a documentary filmmaker was staying with Astley, the exchange, which has been confirmed by the Kerry campaign, was caught on videotape.

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The Kerry campaign's response was swift.

"The person who made the call is a young volunteer whose remarks were not authorized or condoned by this campaign," Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill said in a statement. "It's a terrible mistake for a young person to make, and he is apologizing to the person he called. While we appreciate his support, we have asked him to leave the campaign."

From the Des Moines Register:

A 1993 agreement to send Vermont nuclear waste to Texas has resurfaced a decade later in a political attack by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry on a chief rival for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.
                                                            
Kerry said last week that Dean showed environmental and ethnic insensitivity when he signed a compact to allow Vermont and Maine to send low-level nuclear waste to the largely Hispanic west Texas town of Sierra Blanca.
                                                            
Kerry's attack comes as Dean's chief rivals in the early nominating states of Iowa and New Hampshire - where Dean leads in polls -seek to link the former governor with more conservative positions than his liberal stances now suggest.
                     
Dean has defended the compact by saying that Vermont was responding to a federal requirement that states dispose of their nuclear waste and that his state had no role in choosing the site.
                     
A Texas environmental agency ultimately blocked the nuclear waste dump from being built there.
                     
Environmentalists in Texas and Vermont said Dean did nothing to urge Texas to reconsider the location, despite an outcry from environmental and Latino activists and Democrats in Congress.
                     
They also said there was little Dean could have done about the site selection because that was Texas' legal responsibility.