As you know, I am a big Howard Dean fanboy. I've sort of taken it on as my
duty to defend him amongst Iowa blogs, so I have to respond to this
ridiculous State 29 attack.

State quotes a paraphrase of Dean in the New York Times:

The Democratic national chairman, Howard Dean, said that there was no
evidence that Mr. Abramoff had directly given money to any Democrats,
though some took contributions from Indian tribes associated with the
lobbyist.