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).
Friday, April 14, 2006
Friday News Round-Up
A lot happening today already, and it's only 9am:
- Alan Schlesinger, former mayor of Derby, will officially enter the senate race on the GOP side, reports the Courant. He will join anti-immigration xenophobe Paul Streitz as officially declared Republican candidates. Unlike Streitz, he has the tacit support of the state party and plans on putting his money where his mouth is:
A tax attorney who graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance, Schlesinger is pledging to spend $500,000 of his own money to jump-start his campaign, which would be up against Lieberman's war chest of more than $4 million.
All the millions in the world won't do any good when your stated "pet issue" is privatizing social security.
"Our budget is $3 million," Schlesinger said. "I'm going to be matching the first $500,000 dollar for dollar." - The first-quarter campaign finance report from the Lamont camp is due out today. In CT-04, Diane Farrell outraised Chris Shays $514,595 to $372,000 in the first quarter, a great showing. Laura Bush is coming to Connecticut to raise money for Shays's faltering campaign later this month.
- The Town Times reports on Ned Lamont's visit to Middlefield on Tuesday:
Lamont seemed to already have support among those who had come to see him speak. "Joe Lieberman has changed," Clay Howe of Durham commented, "He is no longer the Joe Lieberman who once represented New Haven.
- The conservative NY Sun weighs in on Lieberman's threat to cut and run from the Democratic party in an op-ed entitled "Cannibalizing Lieberman." Setting aside the fact that, once again, Lieberman's only defenders come from the right side of the political spectrum, it's clear that the Democratic party is not "cannibalizing" anyone by having a discussion on important issues in a primary with the minor demand that an 18-year incumbent abide by the results of that primary. When's the next time Joe goes on Hannity's show?
- David Ignatius fuels the Lieberman-to-DOD rumors in a WaPo op-ed:
Rumsfeld's replacement should be someone who can help restore a bipartisan consensus for a sensible Iraq policy. One obvious candidate would be the centrist Democrat Sen. Joe Lieberman.
If this happens, this will be exactly how the establishment media will play it. And it is complete bullshit. Joe Lieberman cannot "help restore a bipartisan consensus" on Iraq any more than Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld could, because he's a pure neoconservative ideologue on defense who has never been interested in doing so. He has toed the Bush-Cheney line and refused to ask tough questions every step of the way. For the sake of the country, we really need a non-ideologue like Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, no matter what party affiliation. Joe Lieberman would just be more of the same failure, with a "Democratic" face.
posted by tparty at 8:58 AM 
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