Disclosure: I worked for the Lamont campaign doing web design and production and some writing for the official blog (from 9/5/06 to 11/07/06).
Monday, February 27, 2006
Ned on PoliticsTV
PoliticsTV will officially launch next week, but they've already conducted an interview with Ned Lamont for their "Candidate Channel" which will feature video interviews of various candidates running for office nationwide. For someone like me who would scour the C-SPAN archives looking for video of potential candidates I've heard of but never seen speak, this promises to be a great resource. If you want your NedTV, click on the following links for the full QT clips (and thanks to PoliticsTV for the preview):
- On why he's running: "We ought to give voters a choice. For too long, they haven't had a choice.... There's some real issues out there that Joe and I don't necessarily agree on and I think people deserve a robust discussion of where we ought to be going as a country and where we should stand on those issues and where Democrats should stand on those issues.... We have a government that's not dealing with the big issues of the day. We need a more entrepreneurial approach to government."
- On the culture of corruption in Washington: "I see some of these lobbying reforms that are being proposed - you can't use the Senate gym for two years after leaving office - it seems like something being written for a Saturday Night Live sketch. It doesn't seem like you're really getting to the core of the issue."
- Why challenge a sitting senator when your party is in the minority? (same clip as above): "I was talking to a fellow the other day and he said, Ned, your best response is, 'You're not gonna lose a seat, you're gonna gain a Democrat.' One of the issues that I've got with Senator Lieberman is that it's not that he cheerled us into the war in Iraq, which is a terrible foreign policy blunder for this country. It's not that he doesn't necessarily challenge the president as aggressively as he should on Sam Alito and the environment and energy independence and civil liberties and torture. But he also undercuts Democrats by not standing up and not speaking with a clear voice on these issues. And it makes it tougher for the Democrats to rally and speak with a unified voice, which we've gotta do if we're going to challenge these bad policies." (Update: Also see this clip: "I think [Democrats] want a Democratic senator that challenges the president...")
- On Iraq: "We did not ask the right questions going in.... I wish Senator Lieberman instead of cheerleading the president, had been there asking the tough questions so we went in there with our eyes open."
- On healthcare: "There's nothing more vital... It's a system that's badly, badly broken.... It's of interest to me as a small buisnessman as well because look at how much we're paying for healthcare and when we lose bids, we lose bids to fly-by-night companies that don't even provide health insurance for their folks."
- What's the biggest problem in Washington? "Lifelong career politicians.... that leads to a certain cronyism down there. That's not what the founding fathers had in mind when they talked about a citizen legislature."
- On checking presidential power run amok: "You need congressional oversight, you need checks and balances to protect us from a tyranny.... One of the things that really got me involved in this race [was] the Terri Schiavo case... it's an intensely personal decision and it's the last place you want the Federal government intruding. And the Right-To-Life movement got involved, and George Bush flew back from Crawford, TX, and Tom DeLay said the federal government's got to intervene, and Joe Lieberman backed them up on that."
- On his political heroes: "Bill Clinton, I thought did a wonderful service... I worked hard on the Bill Bradley campaign. I love Bill Bradley cause he was an entrepreneurial politician, he was an idea politician."
- On the War in Afghanistan: "One of my strong objections to the invasion of Iraq is that it has distracted us from the rest of the War on Terror."
- On Labor Unions: "We have to defend the middle class in this country.... The union movement is very important to that. It's very important that the people we trade with have some labor rights just like we have in this country. The same way that the multinationals are going offshore, I think it's very important that the union movement think broadly as well."
posted by tparty at 10:51 AM 
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Good to hear from a Democrat who sounds like a Democrat should. You'll have my support even though I'm out-of-state.
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There's a 10th video that you might have overlooked.
"No question about it, Senator Lieberman has been running for office most of his adult life here in Connecticut..."
-Beau
[Ned Lamont Resource]
"No question about it, Senator Lieberman has been running for office most of his adult life here in Connecticut..."
-Beau
[Ned Lamont Resource]
This is good. I'm not even interested in any politicians who won't talk about doing something serious about healthcare. I realize it's tough to run in CT against the insurance companies, but something's gotta happen.
But yes, publicly undercutting our party is the bottom line; Lieberman is a saboteur.
But yes, publicly undercutting our party is the bottom line; Lieberman is a saboteur.
it would be good to have a senator from connecticut whose every utterance didn't sound as though he was straining at stool.
samg
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