“As far as I know there’s no one in any of the offices doing that [petition gathering],” Steinfels said.
Today Ken Krayeske of the Green Party was at the Secretary of the State's office, and reported that he found only 65 certified signatures, out of 70 total, for the Connecticut for Lieberman party. This is compared to 414 for the Concerned Citizens' statewide ticket, 67 for the Independent Party statewide ticket, and 3296 certified out of 4550 submitted for the Green Party.
Which means that either the CT for Lieberman folks are sitting on a big stack of petitions, or they simply aren't collecting all that many of them. The deadline for filing petitions is August 9th--Lieberman needs about 7,500 to get on the ballot. Unless he's planning a big push over the next two weeks... he may not make it.
If Lieberman loses the primary and doesn't turn in enough signatures, he's finished. Literally.
Update: Concorde at My Left Nutmeg has an account of Lieberman's petition-gathering, so it looks like it is happening. How much has been gathered is uncertain.
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Didn't Jarjura leave the donkeys, run as an independent and win himself? Why would he not support Joe?
I called the Lieberman office at the phone number listed on joe2006.com and asked the staffer answering the phone where I could sign the petition. She replied that they have been instructed to take down the callers home address and they will send someone out to them. This didn't work for me, so I asked if they would have volunteers in the field with petitions and she didn't know. I then asked if I could stop by the office to sign it and she said that she's been instructed to not give out the office address.
The address on the website is a PO Box at the State House Square post office in Hartford. This is no way to accumulate signatures! I could walk to DeStefano HQ on Main Street in HTFD and they would invite me in no problem...I'd like to sign it, but if I can't, then that's one less toward the goal. If I were running JOE2006, I would have volunteers at State House Square, the NH Green, wtby, bpt, even Pomfret for chrissake! These guys really have no idea what they're doing!
Do people really think the Lieberman Campaign won't be able to collect 7,500 signatures? They are definitley sitting on them.
I then asked if I could stop by the office to sign it and she said that she's been instructed to not give out the office address.
Does Lieberman have the most paranoid and dysfunctional campaign in the country, or what? They are bordering on psychotic. No one will have trouble reaching the Lamont campaign.
Diane Urban, anti war republican is collecting signatures also and some of the same circulators are getting signatures for her and Joe.
Her support would come from moderate and liberal republicans ( hurting AS) and some anti war folks ( hurting Lamont)
Her boy friend is Representatve Fontana who is the Vice Chair of the Democratic Party and probably along with other Lieberman allies, " guided her" into doing this.
I do wonder why so many people think Urban is incapable of making up her own mind.
Trueblue....what part of the Weicker backup plan does she represent when some of her circulators were seen also getting signatures for Joementum?
The jackpot of signatures is located in...Willington.
After reading this board discuss Diana Urban's possible motives, I am pretty certain that the speculation reveals an underlying mysogyny in politics.
Imagine, just for a second, that other concerns (global warming, nuclear proliferation, the breakdown of the constitution, results based accounting) motivate her.
Imagine, also, for a second, that players outside of the "accepted" political spectrum could be involved here.
Suppose that the Working Families Party recruited her to run as an anti-war Republican, specifically to help Chris Murphy in the Fifth Congressional District? He is on the WFP ballot line in the 5th, and she might draw voters down there - 1% could be the margin of difference with Murphy and Johnson?
Suppose that fell through and she is still interested in running for the seat in case Lamont loses? Because if Lamont loses, the anti-war crowd has no candidate except her - sorry Ralph Ferrucci, you aren't as credible as three-term incumbent Republican state rep.
So for you nincompoops on the board here, stop being so shortsighted and sexist in your political analysis. It's pathetic to read, and doesn't account for all the forces at work in the Connecticut political spectrum.
Urban still needs the 7500 signatures. I just can't see her getting those.
She's already got about 3,500 or so, I believe...
Rep. Urban is an intelligent, hard working legislator. Her voting record is far more consistent with the CT Democrats than the Republicans. She even splits with her party on procedural votes. But so what? Let's stop the disgusting personal stuff. I would like to know what inspired her to run for the U.S. Senate? I know that she was toying with the idea of running for an open State Senate seat and backed out because she did not think that she could beat Rep. Lenny Winkler in a primary. But isn't this a tougher race? Perhaps she is hedging her bets (sorry about the betting metaphor Mr. Gold) that Lieberman wins the primary and then she would be the only anti-war candidate in the race. She would probably get all of the Lamont votes and be in good position. Who knows?
I learned today that Lieberman allegedly hired a firm called Spoon Works out of Boston to collect signatures for his campaign.
If Lamont wins maybe she doesn;t turn in her petitions the next day
Watch that they gather them all on primary day by pulling folks aside on the way into the polls . By Mike CT's rule of thumb they'll only need about a 8% yield from that
Lieberman will get enough signatures to be a Candidates you DFA people and Liberals should be more worried if Ned will win the primary Remember Ned Loses the primary is no another day for him unless he does the petition game now prior to August 8th.
oh wait No Ned is too cocky and arrogant he doesnt have a plan B Because I guess he really doesnt want to be a US Senator that badly
Or He is an all or nothing type of guy.
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