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Thursday, May 18, 2006

 

Breaking: Joe Scared Of A Real Vote?

Word is that Joe Lieberman is having DTCs call "emergency meetings" tonight in order to pass resolutions to force bloc-voting in the Senate nomination tomorrow night.

What's next? Is he going to hold an "emergency meeting" to change the location of the convention?

Ned Lamont will be on the ballot in August no matter how many dirty tricks Joe tries to pull in the next 24 hours.

Update: Hmm... interesting that http://dems.info, the URL for the state party website, should suddenly stop working the day before the convention. (Another URL for the site, http://ctdems.org, is still working.)
Comments:
rumor has it Lieberman and Malloy are sharing a party tent on Firday night....moderates for moderates anyone?
 
Portland DTC held a last-minute meeting tonight....... and voted to endorse Lamont. (Thanks for the suggestion Senator.)

The Lieberman supporters on the DTC were adamant that the delegates should vote as a block. Then they lost the vote and changed their tune and insisted that the delegates should be free to "vote their conscience."
 
HFL- I'd tend to agree with your assessment, but I haven't been able to find out which towns have called these meetings.

Boss Lieberman is a machine politician, and he's putting the machine into high gear. He would do this whether he thought Ned had 5% or 50% of the delegates. It's just his nature. If he thought he could get away with more, he'd do more.
 
I think that it is very telling that the Lamont campaign is now being viewed as an emergency by the Lieberman campaign. Yes, they would have done this no matter what, but it does tell volumes.

How effective will it be? Hopefully, we will find out this evening, unless there are other last minute manoevers.

As to HFL, I have never given up on the possibility that Lamont could win outright at the convention, just as I know a lot of Red Sox fans who never gave up on the possibility that they might win the World Series again someday.

However, we need to hope for the best and plan for the worst, and I recognize that the Lieberman campaign could very well manage to find ways to block us from getting even 15%. I hope everyone gets out and gets a few more signatures on petitions today. I hope that everyone realizes what a great victory getting 15% of the delegates will be.
 
Count and Verify the Votes.

I repeat,

Count and Verify the Votes.

Joementum's camp will have deceased people casting votes for him in the primary.

Trust me, he's THAT desperate.
 
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