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Some Dems Want Lieberman Out of Party
AP ^ | 8/21/6 | SUSAN HAIGH

Posted on 08/21/2006 4:05:37 PM PDT by SmithL

Hartford -- Critics of Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.

Staffers for Lieberman, who lost the Aug. 8 Democratic primary to Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont, called both efforts dirty politics. The senator filed as an independent candidate a day after the loss, running under the new Connecticut for Lieberman party.

A group whose members described themselves as peace activists asked Sharon Ferrucci, New Haven's Democratic registrar of voters, to remove Lieberman from the party, arguing that he cannot be a Democrat while running under another party's banner.

The request could lead to a hearing in which Lieberman, the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2000, would have to argue that he still adheres to the party's principles.

"The law is pretty clear he is no longer a member of the Democratic Party in good standing," said group leader Henry Lowendorf. "There was an open vote and he was voted out. He joined a different party."

Ferrucci said she would research the request, the first of its kind in her two decades on the job.

Lieberman campaign manager Sherry Brown said the effort was "dirty political tricks at its worst."

"This kind of ridiculous, partisan game-playing is not going to provide anyone in Connecticut with better jobs, better health care, or better schools," she said.

Since losing the primary, Lieberman has referred to himself as an "independent Democrat" and said he plans to remain part of the Democratic caucus in Washington, even though several leading Democrats have called on him to give up his independent run.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 109th; congress; dummiecrats; election2006; lament; lamont; lieberman
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1 posted on 08/21/2006 4:05:39 PM PDT by SmithL
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I still think Lamont was some kind of Rovian plot.


2 posted on 08/21/2006 4:06:10 PM PDT by SmithL (The fact that they can't find Hoffa is proof that he never existed.)
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To: SmithL

They should be careful about what they ask for.


3 posted on 08/21/2006 4:06:50 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: SmithL

Joe is way too moral for the Dim party.


4 posted on 08/21/2006 4:07:46 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: SmithL
Some Dems Want Lieberman Out of Party

"Party" --- Come over here, Joe. We're having a kegger for Friday's Steeler game.

5 posted on 08/21/2006 4:08:04 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Is it August 22nd anywhere yet???)
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To: SmithL

What a bunch of sleazeballs. They couldn't get what they wanted out of Lieberman so they want to silence him.


6 posted on 08/21/2006 4:08:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: SmithL

FUnnie how the news media has yet to call Lieberman a maverick.


7 posted on 08/21/2006 4:09:17 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: SmithL

Critics of Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.

It sounds to me like the dems are hittin the panic button..they know their man lamont is gonna get his a*s kicked, and the party of compassion is now pullin out the stops..IMHO


8 posted on 08/21/2006 4:09:21 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info)
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To: SmithL
THROW LIEBERMAN OUT! YYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


9 posted on 08/21/2006 4:09:51 PM PDT by petercooper (Is this where I get me a huntin' license?)
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To: SmithL

Actually Democrats are just starting to act like Republicans. What part of "GET RID OF EVERY DAMN
R(D)INO!!" does this Democratic strategy resemble most?


10 posted on 08/21/2006 4:10:20 PM PDT by Common Tator
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To: SmithL

Ever wonder what kind of hell is going to break loose in the Dem caucus when Lieberman wins and gets to assert his seniority over those tools who backed his opponent?


11 posted on 08/21/2006 4:10:21 PM PDT by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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Well, here's Exhibit ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ that the liberal Dims are dumber than dirt. They're trying to force him out of the Senate Dim caucus, or make him so angry that he'd quit. That could be very interesting if the Senate caucuses end up a vote apart.
12 posted on 08/21/2006 4:10:26 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: beyond the sea
"Party" --- Come over here, Joe. We're having a kegger for Friday's Steeler game.

I got it. You're looking for a clown.

13 posted on 08/21/2006 4:10:49 PM PDT by Digger
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To: SmithL

What say we trade for Chafee?


14 posted on 08/21/2006 4:11:15 PM PDT by thoughtomator (There is no "Islamofascism" - there is only Islam)
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To: SmithL
I'm still amazed that the 2000 Vice Presidential nominee for the Democrat Party has been treated like a leper by those that nominated him for that job.

I think that the treatment of Joe Lieberman by his "friends" is not lost on even the mildly politically interested voters.
15 posted on 08/21/2006 4:12:23 PM PDT by Republican Red (Everyone is super stoked on Gore, even if they don't know it)
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To: Common Tator

I voted against a RINO and got a conservative republican in Tim Walberg.


16 posted on 08/21/2006 4:12:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: SmithL

I don't get it - shouldn't he be out of the party if the party didn't nominate him and he's still running?


17 posted on 08/21/2006 4:12:35 PM PDT by Stone Mountain
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To: SmithL

Some people in Hell want ice water.


18 posted on 08/21/2006 4:13:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Rennes Templar

Really? Late abortions are moral? All righty then...


19 posted on 08/21/2006 4:13:53 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Every single day provides at least one new reason to hate the mainstream media...)
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To: Common Tator

And the sooner we get rid of moderate Democrats like Lieberman and leftist Republicans like Snowe/Chaffee et al the better off the country will be. Then the choices will be clear.


20 posted on 08/21/2006 4:14:00 PM PDT by Les_Miserables
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