{news} ( ACTION)"token challenge from young Green Party candidate Ralph Ferrucci, "

[Kenneth Humphrey]

      I guess many who get the Courant will have
noticed that suddenly Jingo/Corprate/Holy Joe
Lieberman is trying to remake his image by attempting
to show his differences with the Bush regime.
Lieberman is publicized by his mesmerized promoter
David Lightman, the Courant's Washington man, as
'leading the effort to get the Bushies to cooperate
with the investtigation over what happened when
Katrina hit'. This is typical Lieberman opportunism
and phoniess, and exactly how, with major help from
the Courant and other Connecticut media, Lieberman
manages to bamboozle unalert voters into thinking he's
'on their side' when he's actually catering to
corporate interests at the expense of the people's
(and his constituents') interest.

      When Joe ran in 1988 he was totally supportive
of the Contras-Reagan's 'Freedom Fighters' while
Weicker was outspoken against the Contras and Reagan's
complicity with brutality and murder by the rightwing
regimes in Central America. And Lieberman rabidly
savaged, with one big point being that Weicker was on
the go in his quizotic campaign for president, and
failing to serve his constitutents. Lieberman also had
the enthusiastic support of the Buckleys and Tom Scott
and Republicans in general, who knew that Lieberman
was way to the right of Weicker. And the Republicans
have been very content with Joe ever since. In 2000
they had no problem letting the already shaky mayor of
Waterbury become the GOP opponent to Joe. And the GOP
has really made no serious attempt to run a serious
candidate against Joe since 1988. And it will be the
same this year, in fact, I can even see the GOP
running JOe if Joe should lose or show signs of losing
a Dem primary. Referring back to Joe's savaging
Weicker over never being on the job and not serving
his constituents, we wxperienced Phony Joe
disappearing for weeks while he ran his quizotoc
primary campaign for the presidency. He was far worse
as an absentee than Weicker ever was.

       Nope, the key fact about Joe Lieberman is that
he's a hawk of hawks, totally subservient to rightwing
Israel's bellicose policies in the Middle East and
brutal intransigence in dealing with the occupied
Palestinians, and completely DLC, and the
corporate/Wall Street's man and not yours and mine. He
has a very superslick promotional setup and is the
worst sort of rank opportunist. This zilch of a
Senator badly needs to get booted out of office.
Better he makes an honest man of himself and join up
with his rightwing GOP friends as one of them. As has
been noted, Joe has long been Dino Joe, Democrat In
Name Only.

       Ken Humphrey

--- Green Party-CT <greenpartyct at yahoo.com> wrote:

> PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS ARTICLE IN THE NH AND
> HARTFORD ADVOCATE;
>    
>   "a token challenge from young Green Party
> candidate Ralph Ferrucci,"
>   
> 
>   Taking Aim at Joe
> Can a Greenwich millionaire unseat Lieberman? 
>   by Meir Rinde - January 26, 2006 
>                   MEIR RINDE PHOTO         Ned
> Lamont met with progressive Dems last week at
> Hartford´s La Paloma Sabanera. The left-wing realms
> of Connecticut´s blogosphere have been buzzing the
> last few weeks over Ned Lamont, a Greenwich Democrat
> and millionaire cable company owner who appears
> increasingly ready to run against Sen. Joseph
> Lieberman in a primary election. Lamont´s experience
> with political office is limited to an unsuccessful
> run for state Senate in 1990, but Lieberman´s strong
> support for the Iraq War is very unpopular with
> Democratic activists and they´re champing for a
> challenger. Lamont has called the war ¨an enormous
> foreign policy blunder.¨ Lieberman remains popular,
> according to a Quinnipiac University poll released
> two weeks ago. Connecticut voters approved of him 62
> to 24 percent, and about the same percentage thought
> he should be reelected. Republicans in particular
> love him -- 75 percent said he should be reelected
> -- but his numbers were not as strong
>  among Democrats, who favored his reelection 59 to
> 24 percent. And some in the ¨Dump Joe¨ faction are
> excited by another statistic from the poll: Asked
> whether the party should renominate Lieberman for a
> reelection run, only 52 percent of Democrats
> surveyed said yes, with 39 percent saying no.  
> Combine that figure with a tendency for primary
> voters to lean left and you´ve got a shadow of a
> possibility that Lamont or another challenger, like
> former governor Lowell P. Weicker, could best
> Lieberman for the nomination in the August primary. 
>     
> ---------------------------------
>     
>   Lamont hasn´t even officially declared himself a
> candidate, but there are signs that Lieberman and
> his supporters consider him a real threat. For
> example, the top liberal blog Daily Kos claimed that
> Lieberman is ¨freaking out¨ and reaching out for
> support among Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C.
> While that may be wishful thinking, Lieberman also
> told the Republican-American he was prepared to run
> as an independent if he lost the primary.   And when
> Lamont had a meet-and-greet with progressives at a
> Hartford café last week, Mayor Eddie Perez took the
> trouble to show up and tell him not to run. ¨As
> mayor and an activist involved in progressive causes
> for decades, I cannot ask any of my fellow
> progressive Democrats to support Mr. Lamont against
> Sen. Lieberman,¨ Perez told the Hartford Courant .  
> Writers on the Connecticut Local Politics Blog came
> up with some reasons why Perez would bother to take
> notice of Lamont. The mayor is tight with the
> Democratic Leadership Council, the
>  centrist organization whose members include
> Lieberman and Bill Clinton. Perez´s chief of staff
> is related to a Lieberman aide. And, probably most
> importantly, it benefits Hartford and the mayor
> personally if he has a good relationship with an
> influential senior senator. Perez, despite his
> progressive credentials, is an establishment
> politician who would not quixotically support a dark
> horse candidate.   That raises a practical question:
> even if Lamont decides to run and does draw interest
> among registered Democrats, could he get the support
> of the local Democratic Party activists who will
> attend the primary convention? Fairfield University
> politics professor John Orman said that to get on
> the primary ballot so voters have a chance to pick
> him over Lieberman, Lamont would first need to
> receive the support of 15 percent of the town
> committee members who are convention delegates.  
> Orman, who briefly ran against Lieberman last year
> until it was clear he had little support, said he´s
>  only heard of two or three Democratic Town
> Committee chairs who have spoken up against
> Lieberman, out of some 200 town committees. The
> strong institutional resistance to challengers helps
> explain why Lieberman is in his 18th year as senator
> and will probably serve another six years. ¨In
> Connecticut, if you´re the type of person who has a
> career in politics and wants to move up the ladder,
> you´d be crazy to run against Joe Lieberman,¨ Orman
> said. ¨That would be the end of your political
> career.   ¨So it takes a party outsider or a
> maverick to pull off a huge political upset and get
> all the citizen action groups together and all the
> progressive groups and get people who are really
> upset with Joe,¨ Orman said. A millionaire like
> Lamont might be able to do it, Orman said, as could
> a celebrity on par with Arnold Schwarzenegger. But
> genuinely viable insider candidates like Attorney
> General Richard Blumenthal or state Rep. Rosa
> DeLauro won´t even try. 
>     
> ---------------------------------
>     
>   Lieberman´s defenders, and even some Democrats who
> have qualms about the war, make another point: why
> are Democrats so eager to oust one of their own
> leading senators? Especially these days, with
> Republicans dominating all branches of the federal
> government, every Democratic vote in Congress is
> precious.   Maybe all those liberal activists who
> are so angry that President Bush once gave Lieberman
> a kiss on the cheek should instead focus their
> energy on helping Democrat Chris Murphy in his
> campaign against Republican Congresswoman Nancy
> Johnson, or Diane Farrell in what´s likely to be a
> close rematch with Congressman Chris Shays, the
> Lamont skeptics say.   Even Lieberman may need their
> help. In addition to a token challenge from young
> Green Party candidate Ralph Ferrucci, Joe could face
> a fight with maverick former governor Weicker, and
> the Hartford Courant has mentioned an unnamed
> millionaire Greenwich Republican who is supposedly
> considering running in the general election. Joe
>  probably won´t end up losing to anyone come
> November, but it looks like he´s facing a tough
> year. He´ll surely take whatever help he can get.   
> Tell us what you think. 
>   
> Email mrinde at hartfordadvocate.com 
>   
> Email editor at hartfordadvocate.com 
>    
>   editor at newhavenadvocate.com
>    
> 
>   PLEASE RESPOND TO BOTH PAPERS AND MRINDE!!        
> 
> 
>
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> 
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