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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For Joe, the key to morality is (evidently) not riding on the Jewish Sabbath, but late term abortion is pefectly moral (he is the worst kind of hypocrit, IMO).
Just a question. If Lieberman wins, is he listed as Dem or Ind? And if so, does that reduce the number of Dem seats?
He'll still caucus with the dems, and has said so. It will be interesting if the Senate ends up 50/50 again though. Fitting justice if Lieberman remained independent a al Jeffords, giving the Republicans a 50/49 majority. You'd hear the loudest whine in political history from the Democrats. You'd see all the arguments Dems have made for the last six months shift 180 degrees overnight.
Yeah, we should just support the RINO throughout the race.
Heard that Joe campaigned on the last two Saturday's before the primary election. He is the worst example of an 'orthodox' jew.
"Where is he so "moral"? "
Hey, he was comparing him with fellow dims. He is moral compared to most of them. ;-)
TAGLINE-WORTHY!!!! Your comment RULES!!!!
FUnnie how the news media has yet to call Lieberman a maverick!!!!!
No, conservative activists are out to purge the party of RINOs who regularly vote with the Democrats (see Specter, Chaffee, etc.). Liberal activists are out to purge the party of fellow liberals who do their bidding 90% of the time. If the DUmmies were acting like the GOP, they'd be perfectly content with LIEberman's record (you don't see the GOP argue that Dan Quayle and Jack Kemp are "not real Republicans" because they voted the wrong way on ONE issue, do you?), and instead the DUmmies would be going after guys like Ben Nelson.
Occassionaly there are some nutcase "conservatives" who depise someone who does their bidding 90% of the time but voted the wrong way on one issue, but they are an extremely small fringe within the conservative movement and get crushed in their bids to "purge" good conservatives in the primary (For example, Ray "confederate flag hertiage" McBerry recently ran a single-issue primary campaign against solidly conservative Governor Sonny Perdue and Republicans voted for Perdue 90%-10% in the primary)
If this were the RAT party, Perdue would have been run out of town on a rail for not adherring to the "activists" on every single issue.
CT is a huge RINO booster.
His philosophy is of the Dims, his morality is not.
You're kidding yourself if you believe the two can be seperated.
Why are they shunning him?
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