(Connecticutt) Senate Campaign Accusations Fly

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Senate Campaign Accusations Fly

The U.S. Senate race continued its nasty spiral Thursday, with the campaigns of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and Ned Lamont debating who was nastiest and loosest with the facts.

The exchanges began Wednesday with former state Treasurer Henry E. Parker, a Lamont backer, accusing Lieberman of lying about his civil rights record - an unsubstantiated charge that Parker recanted Thursday morning.

Unabashedly hoping to keep the story alive, Lieberman's campaign manager demanded Thursday afternoon that Lamont personally apologize to Lieberman for Parker's actions.

For good measure, she accused the Lamont campaign of deliberately misleading voters on Lieberman's Social Security record.

An hour later, Lamont's campaign complained that Lieberman's new television commercial slanders Lamont by falsely claiming he laid off 68 percent of his cable-television company's workforce.

The full article can be read at http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-senate1013.artoct13,0,4961263.story

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1. And here I thought only Pigs Fly...

Haven't been following it, but it seemed to me from what I read about Lieberman that there really should be a great deal of nasty dirt that could be slung--most of which would stick solid if anyone's listening. Lamont is still probably trying to keep it relatively clean/professional; what he needs to do is blast Lieberman enough to knock him flat--but no more or it could appear unfair.