The Democratic National Committee had scheduled a Chairman Howard Dean fundraiser for Wednesday night in Columbia, South Carolina, but Dean didn’t bother to show up, citing bad weather in Philly. The State’s DNC executive director, Lachlan McIntosh, said that the party had already raked in $5,000 in ticket sales and they expected to get $10,000 more by the time bread was broken.

They’ve promised to return the $5,000.

That being said, Dean’s fund raising skills went to work, in an imitation sense, for the other side of the aisle last night. The State GOP held a “Dean Scream contest” and raised $22,000.

“YEAAARRRRGH!”