Dan Senor's 527 targeted Ned Lamont while Dan supported Lieberman.

[madfloridian]

Today on This Week, Dan Senor openly admitted to having worked with the Joe Lieberman campaign. I am still looking for video or transcript, but others heard it as well.

Yet his 527 targeted Ned Lamont. Wonder if Joe knew about that? Does it matter? It matters to me because Joe has called for more troops, and he has made it clear he wants a surge (can you say "escalate") in Iraq

Taylor Marsh wrote this up, here is the link.

http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=24386
GOP Swiftboaters Aiming Next for Ned Lamont

Okay, so we've got the Swiftboaters for Truth going after Murtha in Pennsylvania.

Now we've got the Swiftboaters for Freedom -- give me a break -- going after Ned Lamont, while Laura Bush raises funds against a disabled Iraqi war veteran. Charming, isn't it?

Funny how Dan Senor's group is listed as a 527, but is doing highly partisan work. Does anyone actually believe that by siding with Lieberman against Ned Lamont the Swiftboaters for Freedom are being non-partisan? It's especially interesting given information I was handed this morning. Senor's group didn't even file their papers until the very end of July, wherein they signed on as a 527, which is not supposed to use any funds to directly defeat a candidate. Yeah, right.

http://www.prwatch.org/node/5077

"The Republican lobby group Vets for Freedom is the 2006 equivalent of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Republican 527 committee whose attack advertisements in battleground states helped sink John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race by smearing him as a phony war hero and a traitor to his country."

[whatelseisnew]

1. Rec. Thanks for sticking with this , madfloridian

[MasonJar]

2. To paraphrase Mozart in Amadeus, "What can one say but W?"

Oh, on edit I guess one could substitute "Republican?"

[ooglymoogly]

3. kick

[madfloridian]

4. Vets for Freedom...is this Senor's group?

All those Vets and swiftboaters for stuff groups are confusing.

http://www.prwatch.org/node/5077

"The Wall Street Journal reports that VFF is being handled now by Republican strategist Dan Senor and that it "hopes to run other print and radio ads in the fall, and is also planning on campaign door-to-door for Mr. Lieberman and holding a rally on his behalf."

Connecticut is a heavily Democratic state, and normally any Democrat who wins the nomination would be expected to cruise to victory in the general election this November. However, Lieberman's refusal to bow out after losing to Ned Lamont in last Tuesday's primary creates a window of opportunity for a Republican victory. By supporting Lieberman, the Republicans hope to split the Democratic vote so that their candidate can get elected. This strategy is bound to produce an ugly and divisive political campaign, another advantage for the Republican cause nationally as Tony Snow and others in the White House paint pro-peace Democrats as a party of appeasement in the war on terror."

[Eric J in MN]

5. 527s should have to follow the same rules as PACs.

There are progressive 527s, too, and it's soft money all around.

Limit 527s to $5,000 donations, the way PACs are limited to $5,000 donations.

Another way to look at it is:
Eliminate 527s, since these groups can become PACs instead.

[madfloridian]

6. Only video I can find is The Green Room....but the panel is not mentioned.

They have a picture up on the This Week front page, but the video listed just leads to them in the Green Room. I must be missing something.

[Skidmore]

7. So explain to me why some of you people stick with Lieberman?

I don't get it? With all of those knife handles sticking out of your backs, why do you continue to hug the traitor close?

[madfloridian]

8. Lamont's website pointed this group out in September.

I guess since Joe was elected with over 70% of the Republican voters, there is nothing the Democrats in the state can do. And according to Bob Geiger's post in this link, there is nothing Harry Reid can do either about his chairmanships.

Lieberman lets his Republican side shine now....scathing editorial.

From the Lamont campaign website:

http://nedlamont.com/truthaboutjoe/1337/lamont-campaign-and-supporters-to-lieberman-denounce-third-party-ads-by-groups-with-swift-boat-and-lobbyist-ties

"An organization with numerous ties to Washington lobbyists, the Bush administration, and the Swift Boat campaign is coming to Connecticut with massive television ad buys for Lieberman, prompting Democratic US Senate nominee Ned Lamont’s campaign and supporters to call on Lieberman to ask the group to remove themselves from Connecticut politics.

“What is indisputable is that the George Bush White House and Karl Rove will do anything they can to elect Joe Lieberman,” Jepsen said. “What we are seeing today is part of a national agenda to drive home a message that is clearly wrong – and out of step with Connecticut. ”

Vets for Freedom, which will spend between $75,000 and $100,000 in two days this week, has ties to the Swift Boat campaign and is receiving advice from Republican lobbyists and strategists, including a former Bush spokesperson. They have said they plant to air more commercials and to continue until the election.

..."The New York Times reports that “Vets for Freedom” is receiving advice from Taylor Gross, a former White House official; Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard; Republican strategist Dan Senor Mr. Lieberman’s former chief of staff, Bill Andresen. (9/2/06) Most of these men are corporate lobbyists and Republican Party operatives. Facts on each are attached. Additionally, the non-partisan the Center for Media and Democracy finds links between Vets for Truth and the public relations firm that created the Swift Boat ad campaign, and calls it “equivalent of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Republican 527 committee whose attack advertisements in battleground states helped sink John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race by smearing him as a phony war hero and a traitor to his country.”

[madfloridian]

9. Still trying to find the transcript or video.

:shrug:

[Nutmegger]

10. LIEberman and his minions are thugs.

During the last days, the homestretch, LIEberYouth interrupted Lamont's bus tour. He didn't even get a chance to complete the event. They are all disgusting and used dirty tricks to get their way while the rest of the Dem party ran around with their arms in the air not knowing what to do.

I tried, we all tried.

[madfloridian]

12. CT Dems did a great job, they should be proud. Joe was shameless.

First you had Republicans like Dan Senor using his 527 to attack Lamont, many other Republicans were taking part in his campaign

Then you have the massive number of establishment Dems who supported him. I am glad I archived the names on my hard drive, for eternity.

From Lieberman's website, the Democrats who are supporting him.

It is shameful.

The CT Dems and bloggers should be proud.

[Trajan]

11. We have a Dan Senor adherent here in DU ....

Been posting some ugly stuff of late ....

Cant seem to get the DU powers that be interested as of yet ....

[whatelseisnew]

13. kick

[whatelseisnew]

14. final kick