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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 12:09 AM
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AP: Hillary Clinton meets with Ned Lamont, lends advice and adviser
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Clinton, Lamont Meet in New York
Aug 25
By BETH FOUHY
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had Connecticut Senate candidate Ned Lamont over for coffee Friday, discussing campaign strategy and offering to host a fundraiser, a spokesman for the senator said.

"It was a great meeting. Senator Clinton thinks Ned Lamont did a fabulous job in Connecticut," spokesman Howard Wolfson said, referring to Lamont's upset victory over Sen. Joe Lieberman in the state's Democratic primary....

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At Clinton's Westchester County home, she and Lamont "talked about what Mr. Lamont can expect from the George Bush-Karl Rove attack machine," Wolfson said. "She told him Republicans were invested in defeating him."

Clinton has contributed $5,000 from her political action committee to Lamont's campaign and will do "whatever works for the campaign," Wolfson said. Wolfson, one of Clinton's senior political strategists, also said he will join the Lamont campaign as an adviser.

Clinton had offered tepid support to Lieberman, but moved quickly after the Aug. 8 primary to endorse Lamont, a Greenwich businessman who heavily criticized Lieberman's support of the Iraq war....

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/25/D8JNM09G0.html
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 12:43 AM
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1. Thanks, Senator Clinton
You're doing the right thing here.

Now, why don't you do something else right and talk to Joe about withdrawing.
Tell him that he has until the Senate reconvenes to decide. Then, if he doesn't withdraw, you'll have no choice but to recommend to Minority Leader Reid that his Party appointments be withdrawn.

It's time to play tough with the turncoat.
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cyclezealot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 02:33 AM
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2. Thanks. I hope LaMonts message resognates
with you.
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