While many members of the Democratic Town Committee still have uncommitted support for the four party hopefuls running for governor and U.S. senator, the majority back Stamford Mayor Dannel P. Malloy and incumbent Joseph I. Lieberman, according to informal votes taken Tuesday.This is the first good news I've heard for Lieberman in a while. Cummings's sort of reasoning--that he doesn't want to risk the seat--could be very damaging to Lamont.
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Cummings said that while he's uncommitted in the race for governor, he does support Lieberman's reelection - despite a resolution the town committee passed nearly unanimously this year that chastised the senator for his support of the Bush policy in Iraq.
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Still, when it comes to backing Lamont, Cummings said he's not willing to risk losing a Democratic seat in the Senate based solely on principle: "I'm willing to be Joe Hypocrite all over the place ... because of the greater good."(Phillips)
Source
Phillips, Kimberly. "Manchester Democrats favor Malloy, Lieberman." Journal-Inquirer 19 April, 2006.
8 comments:
Bottom line from Manchester is 17 delegates for Lieberman and 10 for Lamont.
Looks like alot better than 15% to me.Lets have ourselves a little Primary and whomever wins everyone gets behind 100%.
You OK with that Patricia Rice?
I am.
Patricia rice,
You've just proven your an idiot.
What Lamont said was whomever is the eventual Democratic Nominee (thats decided by a primary not a convention) he will wholeheartedly support.
In other words Dear,YOUR STATE JOB ISN"T SAFE!!
This is the first good news I've heard for Lieberman in a while. Cummings's sort of reasoning--that he doesn't want to risk the seat--could be very damaging to Lamont.
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I don't see how this is good for Lieberman. Take a close look at the numbers and the statement from Cummings and it tells the true story.
Cummings stated in the article that he wants the deglegates to go 17-10 for Lieberman. As it stand now, there are eight delegates who are undecided. I think it's fair to say that those eight are not supporters of Joe but need to be convinced that Lamont is the real deal.
In any event, Cummings dream of 17-10 is perfect for Lamont because it gives him more than 15 percent from Manchester. In any event, there will be a primary and although people are pretty unhappy with Joe, they'll need to learn more about Lamont before they throw there support behind him.
No disrespect to Genghis (and I'm a HUGE fan of this site) but I don't see where this is good news for Lieberman when you have eight delegates who will not support you. If anything, it shows that Lamont's campaign has to fight against Lieberman's name recognition and convince the delegates that a vote for Lamont will not jepordize a "safe" senate seat.
It's better news than he's seen in a while. It's especially interesting that a DTC which censured Lieberman is even partially willing to support him. We also don't know that it will be a 17-10 split: the original vote was 20-4 in favor of Lieberman.
True Genghis although I think it's safe to say that those eight undecided votes are not all that happy about Lieberman. Like you said, this is the DTC that censured Lieberman (and lets not forget what happened when people from Manchester went to meet Joe).
Also, as you know very well, there is alot of back room stuff that happens at a convention so I would be very surprised if Lamont couldn't pick up at least 15 percent from Manchester.
Again you insist on proving you're an Idiot.
the only thing a 17-10 split does is assure Manchester is in favor tossing this Decision to their constiuents in the form of a primary.
GC,
There are 91 members of the Manchester DTC and only 24 bothered to even show for this meeting so whatever was said at this meeting has no standing anyway because a quorum(40%) wasn't present.
I'm not sure if this was a meeting of Manchesters DTC,Their chosen Delegates or just a stunt but someone should call their freinds on the Manchester DTC and find out.
Cummings's sort of reasoning--that he doesn't want to risk the seat--could be very damaging to Lamont.
Doesn't want to risk the Seat??? what seat? We don't have the seat now!
The ONLY reason the CT Dem Committee and the Dems are backing Lieberman is : They are believing Joe's threat that he will not be able to give any of his money to other Democrats, And that the loss of his seniority counts for very much. The Seniority of a Democrat who votes however the heck he wants, not how his constituents tell him they want him to is no seniority at all!
Remember when Joe was running with Gore? 2000. THE ONLY RIGHT LEANING THING Joe had going for him, was school vouchers! Now all of a sudden, over the last couple of years, Joe's priorities are the same as the Republicans! He is clearly a man with no principles, and I want him out. If we lose the seat to a Republican, what have we really lost? Not much IMO !
The Manchester town council embarassed the town. A bunch of Washington wannabees who think that because they pass a resolution,it somehow matters to people in the real world. The council should boosting their town not making it a laughing stock in the national news.Lieberman is a great senator because he is principled enough to cross the party line and work for his country.
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