When the Mingling Moms, a networking group based out of Long Island, NY, celebrated the top 20 Long Island mothers of celebrities earlier this week, of course they wanted some press. Their "Girls Night Out" party held Tuesday was to bring moms together for fun, and also to raise money for breast cancer research. What better way to get press than to involve celebrities, right?

Of course, no Long Island mother can generate press better than Dina Lohan, the mother of upstanding citizen Lindsay Lohan, who this week has been accused of stealing another woman's fur coat (two offenses, if you ask some) and who got a little too close for comfort with Nicole Richie's baby daddy, Joel Madden, at a Cinco de Mayo party Monday.

Dina was voted one of the Top Moms on the Mingling Moms web site, and the group happily included her in their celebration. Of course, as soon as this news hit the 'Net, it spread like wildfirecrotch, with many questioning how someone like Dina, who is currently working on a reality show to promote her 14-year old daughter, Ali, and who is rumored to be as much of a party girl as Lindsay herself, could be considered a Top Mom. (Don't believe the rumors? Click this link.)

Since Tuesday, the group has been receiving hate mail on their site, according to Mingling Moms president Erica Logiudice: "And to wake up and see all this nonsense, it's just upsetting, you know?"

Yeah, lady, we know. But interviews with the Associated Press and all those extra hits to your web site are probably cushioning the blow, aren't they? Five bucks says next year Dina Lohan is voted Greatest Mom Who Ever Graced Long Island with Her Most Awesome and Also Mommiest Existence...Ever!

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