The once-considered frontrunner for president, in 2004, Howard Dean headlined a Brooklyn fund-raiser for mayoral candidate Public Advocate Bill de Blasio last night, where he re-enacted the famous scream that ultimately helped sink his 2004 presidential campaign, Politicker reports.

�So we�re going to Brooklyn! And then we�re going to the Bronx! And then we�re going to go to Manhattan and all the way to Gracie Mansion, yeah!� Mr. Dean shouted as laughter rippled through the Crown Inn, a Prospect Heights bar. �Alright, take that Dave Chapelle,� he quipped.

Mr. Dean also predicted it would be Mr. Weiner and not early front-runner Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the likely runoff, in which he expressed hope that his candidate Bill de Blasio would win the ticket to face him off.

�He has 100 percent name recognition, he�s not going much higher than that. Everyone knows what the deal is, right?� Mr. Dean asked. �But there�s going to be a runoff and Anthony Weiner is going to be in that runoff. And he�s going to lose that runoff. So what this is is a race to see who gets in the runoff with Anthony, that�s how it�s going to work.�

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)