Connecticut Local Politics

“I just want to report that this morning I personally checked John McCain’s bearings. He has not lost any of them. They are all in really great shape.”
Joe Lieberman, responding to Barack Obama’s assertion that McCain had “lost his bearings.”
…Also, any giggling about this quote is entirely your own doing, I’m not encouraging that […]

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Apparently today is a tribute to the Stamford Advocate’s FOIA skills. From Brian Lockhart:
The U.S. attorney and state attorney general last week said they did not close their investigations into the crash of U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s 2006 campaign Web site until after the November election that year.
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Thomas Carson, a spokesman for the U.S. […]

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In response to, what I am assuming were numerous, requests for a statement regarding the closing of the website “hack” story and the comments of AG Blumenthal three days after the email in question was sent given to the irrepressible CTBob, I received this statement from the AG’s office:
“Neither I nor any member of my […]

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The FBI has closed their investigation into Senator Lieberman’s primary day website crash:
A federal investigation has concluded that Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s 2006 re-election campaign was to blame for the crash of its Web site the day before Connecticut’s heated Aug. 8 Democratic primary.
The FBI office in New Haven found no evidence supporting the Lieberman campaign’s […]

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Research 2000 for Daily Kos (link to follow). 3/31-4/1. 600 CT Likely voters who “vote regularly in state elections.” MoE 4% (9/2007)
QUESTION: For whom did you vote for in the 2006 race for U.S. Senate, Ned Lamont, the Democrat, Alan Schlesinger, the Republican, or Joe Lieberman, an Independent?

Lieberman
Lamont
Schlesinger

All […]

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Joe Lieberman:
“It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was strong internationalists, strong on defense, pro-trade, pro-reform in our domestic government,” he said. “It’s been effectively taken over by a small group on the left of the party that is protectionist, isolationist and very, very hyperpartisan. So it pains me.”
This sounds like the Joe Lieberman […]

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Seems like every other day there is a new report on Connecticut’s “Independent Democrat” U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman declaring he has no interest in running as a vice presidential candidate on a McCain ticket.  It’s an understandable fascination with some, considering how not so long ago, Lieberman was Al Gore’s vice presidential running mate for […]

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“It’s very disheartening because two years ago he spoke about working to get a Democrat elected president.”
-Democratic state chair Nancy DiNardo, about the possibility Sen. Joe Lieberman will attend the Republican National Convention. At least they finally took his picture down.

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Sen. Joe Lieberman, who endorsed Sen. John McCain for president and campaigned vigorously for him, will be disqualified as a superdelegate at the Democratic convention under what is informally known as the Zell Miller rule. In 2004, Miller — then a Democratic senator from Georgia — attacked Sen. John Kerry in a speech at […]

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As we approach Connecticut’s Presidential primary, it seems as if we are still feeling and seeing the effects of Connecticut’s last state-wide primary, the one for U.S. Senate two years ago. The ribbles of that outcome, which had Lamont winning the Democratic endorsement for Senate over a three-term Senator and former Vice-Presidential candidate, are […]

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This from the McCain campaign:
U.S. Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign today announced its Connecticut Leadership Team. United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (I-CT) and Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT) will serve as Co-Chairs of John McCain’s campaign in Connecticut. They will lead the grassroots organization on behalf of John McCain’s candidacy leading up to Connecticut’s February […]

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The McCain campaign blasted an email from none other than CT’s own Joe Lieberman today. In it Lieberman explains his endorsement of John McCain calling him “no ordinary candidate.” If the email sounds familiar that’s because this is nothing more than Joe Lieberman’s best hits: digitally remastered and compiled on a three disc […]

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Nancy DiNardo, Chairwoman of the CT Democratic Party:
I am surprised and disappointed by Senator Lieberman’s choice to support Senator McCain in the 2008 election for President of the United States. For many years, I have held Senator Lieberman’s work and his views as a member of the Connecticut Democratic Party in high esteem, but I […]

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Emphasis Mine:
“I am once again reminded why it felt so good to kick Joe Lieberman out of the Democratic Party,” said Tom Swan, who managed Lamont’s
campaign. “His endorsement of a sinking campaign is further evidence
of him being desperate to remain relevant in American politics during
the 21st century.”
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“It has been a long time since Joe Lieberman […]

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Looks like both of our Senators are going to be busy today. One is fighting for the Constitution, the other is on yet another quest for attention.
Hopefully we’ll have video of Dodd soon. I know he spoke not long ago on the Senate floor. I’ll do my best to keep you updated.
H/T to […]

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