Reid and Clinton are lending Lamont crucial logistical support

[BurtWorm]

I will be voting for Jonathan Tasini in the primary, but I find Clinton's actions on behalf of Lamont in CT very interesting. And now Reid is helping out, too. It almost makes you think they really want to become Democrats again. ;-)


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/25/145140/089


CT-Sen: Top Reid consultant also working for Lamont
by kos


Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 11:51:40 AM PDT

Today, Hillary Clinton lent Ned Lamont one of her top consultants, Howard Wolfson.

But two weeks ago, under the radar, Harry Reid did the same. Stephanie Cutter, a key member of Reid's vaunted war room, has been in Connecticut for the last week and plans on helping out through November. She worked as Deputy Communications Director in the Clinton White House, communications director at the DNC in 2003, and communications director for John Kerry (after the late-2003 staff purge which revived his primary campaign).

It's clear that while their words may seem cautious, some key Democrats are lending more than moral support to the Lamont effort.

And while Lieberman struggles to put up even the most rudimentary website, Lamont's team is bulking up with some heavyweights.

Of course, all that is only fine and good as long as Tom Swan keeps the DC crowd in line. Lamont didn't win the primary by following the DC script, but because he tossed it aside.

Let's all hope that doesn't change.

[LynneSin]

1. Both of them came out for Lamont the day after the election was over

I respected why they felt they had to support Lieberman in the primaries but when the votes were counted they knew that we are democrats and we support the democrat selected by the people who voted for him/her

[SaveElmer]

2. They have been Democrats all along...nt

[ShortnFiery]

4. Then Reid needs to make a public statement countering

Lieberman's CLAIMS last Sunday that HE (Reid) PROMISED Lieberman all his *past positions* within the Senate should he WIN the Senate race in November. :grr:

Reid should be subdued but MUST clearly DENY the above claim. :(

As my late father used to quip, "You need to take a stand and stop playing grab-ass when the public is not paying attention."

[bryant69]

3. Interesting

If anybody has reason to be ambivilent (at best) about Ned Lamont's win, it's Hillary.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[BurtWorm]

5. A cynic might say she's playing rope-a-dope or "keeping her enemy close"

I'm not that kind of cynic. I think she wants Lamont's anti-war credential to rub off on her so that she doesn't have to change or clarify her position. I've got to hand it to her: It's a very cagey move.

[bryant69]

9. Yes - I think you are probably right in why she is doing this

It could work

[cal04]

6. Clinton, Lamont meet to discuss Connecticut Senate race

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted Connecticut Senate candidate Ned Lamont at her Westchester County home Friday morning, discussing campaign strategy and fundraising in an hourlong meeting over coffee, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said.

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

"They 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."

(snip)
Clinton, who has already contributed $5,000 from her political action committee to the Lamont campaign, offered to host a fundraising event for Lamont and help out with other fundraising. No date or location was set for the fundraiser, Wolfson said.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CT_CLINTON_LAMONT_MEETING_CTOL-?SITE=CTNHR&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-08-25-14-58-43

[gratuitous]

7. Tide going out on Lieberman

Lieberman will look back with nostalgia on the heady days just after he lost the primary when the first poll came out, showing him the pick of 55% of all voters. The next poll had Lieberman up 44-42. The poll after that will show Lamont up something like 47-40, and Lieberman goes down, down, down from there.

[DemPopulist]

11. I agree

The Lieberman-Lamont race will be an afterthought by October. I think Lieb. got a weird kind of sympathy boost from losing the primary, but in a few months, Lamont will be well ahead and the other hot Senate races will be getting all the attention. Reminiscent of the 2002 New Jersey race, where the Democrats switched Torricelli for Lautenberg and the Republicans made a big stink. That eventually came to nothing for them, and so will this race.

[lyonn]

8. Exactly, hope all those high powered advisors don't

screw up a perfectly good man and his campaign!

[beltanefauve]

10. I'm glad all this support is coming in

as it should, but I'm still so angry at Lieberman for all the funds, time and resources that need come in to defend what otherwise would be a safe Dem seat, detracting from the other Dem races that could use these resources. And if I were a Connecticut voter, I'd be absolutely pissed that I ALREADY voted in the Lamont/Lieberman race, only to basically have to vote in that same race all over again! Isn't there ANYBODY out there that can convince Lieberbush, who truly believes himself to be a Democrat, how destructive this is to the Democratic Party, and what a slap in the face this is to his constituents?