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).
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Tuesday Late-Night Roundup
- The Southbury DTC endorsed Lamont yesterday. The town will send 8 delegates to the convention.
- Ned will be in California this week, including a small-donor fundraiser at Drinking Liberally Oakland tomorrow night (Wednesday the 19th) at 8pm.
- Diane Farrell joins the rest of the world in calling for Rumsfeld's resignation. Still silence from Lieberman, who might be his successor.
- GOP senate candidate Alan Schlesinger kicked off his campaign by repeatedly calling Social Security "a Ponzi Scheme" on Colin McEnroe's WTIC radio show (mp3). He also claimed that, "it's a typical Democratic line to say the Iraqi effort has been putting us into a worse deficit, when in reality it has a lot of positive economic effects." The war in Iraq has had a "lot of positive economic effects?" He must be smoking even better stuff than Joe is. Schlesinger is obviously not a candidate anyone needs to take seriously.
- Reports indicate that Ned Lamont could - allegedly - kick Chuck Norris' ass.
posted by tparty at 11:27 PM 
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Does anyone have any idea about the delegate vote count? Has Lamont's campaign come up with an unofficial "guesstimate"?
I know that 16 of 22 Greenwich delegates declared for Lamont, including the DTC chair; Lamont got 8 of 11 from Ridgefield; half from Fairfield (?); 8 from Southfield (?).
What's the count? And does anyone know exactly who pledged for Lamont from New Britain?
I know that 16 of 22 Greenwich delegates declared for Lamont, including the DTC chair; Lamont got 8 of 11 from Ridgefield; half from Fairfield (?); 8 from Southfield (?).
What's the count? And does anyone know exactly who pledged for Lamont from New Britain?
# posted by 
at 5:07 PM
at 5:07 PM
Personally, I think counting delegates is a little bit like counting chickens before they hatch. I know quite a few people who were counting on all 27 of the delegates in Manchester.
In fact, most delegates are not committed the way they are in the presidential and might not vote as reported. In fact, I believe in some cases, the Democratic Town Committees can require delegates to vote a certain way on the first ballot, even if the delegate wants to vote a different way.
Counting delegates simply sets up false expectations. While I would love to see Lieberman fail to get 51% of the delegates, I doubt very much that will happen.
We need to keep our eye on the ball. The goal is to get 15% of the delegates . Anything else is pure gravy. Our goal is to enough petitions signed so that if Lieberman's camp manages to pull some manoever which blocks from getting the 15% of delegates, we will still be on the ballot.
Please, focus. If you are friends with someone who is a delegate, speak with them. Beyond that, please sign up for the petition drive
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In fact, most delegates are not committed the way they are in the presidential and might not vote as reported. In fact, I believe in some cases, the Democratic Town Committees can require delegates to vote a certain way on the first ballot, even if the delegate wants to vote a different way.
Counting delegates simply sets up false expectations. While I would love to see Lieberman fail to get 51% of the delegates, I doubt very much that will happen.
We need to keep our eye on the ball. The goal is to get 15% of the delegates . Anything else is pure gravy. Our goal is to enough petitions signed so that if Lieberman's camp manages to pull some manoever which blocks from getting the 15% of delegates, we will still be on the ballot.
Please, focus. If you are friends with someone who is a delegate, speak with them. Beyond that, please sign up for the petition drive
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