Michael Moore suggests boycotting Connecticut due to their voting in Lieberman

[Sarah Ibarruri]

I like the idea.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hDawo1cYexzpR52dJLynnq8wu5iAD9CLA3PO2


<snip> NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is threatening to organize a boycott of Connecticut in response to Sen. Joseph Lieberman's opposition to key parts of federal health care legislation.

Moore tells The Associated Press he will launch the boycott if Lieberman continues to block the bill and residents fail to pressure him to change his mind. He called for residents to hold rallies and flood Lieberman's office with phone calls and e-mails.

Moore says he will organize millions to boycott Connecticut businesses that have supported Lieberman.<snip>

[Forkboy]

1. I like Moore, but think this is totally wrong.

It's nothing more than collective punishment. Why punish the good people in Connecticut that actually did the right thing for the actions of the dumbasses?

[Quantess]

2. This is a dumb ploy.

I never liked the idea of boycotting an entire state for anything.

[still_one]

3. Initially he said to boycott Connecticut until they recall lieberman. Glad he finally realizes

that they can't do that in Connecticut

Also, it was was three way race, you want everyone in Connecticut to suffer?

What if Al Frankin lost Minnesota, would he call to boycott Minnesota?

The answer is move the people in Connecticut to NOT vote for lieberman or the republican

[Sarah Ibarruri]

13. I think he means to call attention to the fact that no one should be giving this freak $ to stay

in office.

[cali]

4. As stupid as Billo's endless boycott of VT

[jonnyblitz]

17. I wasn't aware of that one. I will google to find out why. nt

[femmocrat]

5. I don't think Lieberman would be persuaded, knowing it was orchestrated by Moore.

His fat cat sponsors could likely withstand a boycott but it could hurt smaller businesses. I also doubt that Moore can rally "millions" to boycott an entire state.

Why not just pressure the Senate to strip Lieberman of his chairmanship. That way the main person to get hurt is ugly old Joe.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

15. I think the point of a boycott is not whether or not the target agrees with who organized it

I think the point of it is to have an effect.

It's only logical that the target would always hate the organizer of the boycott against the target.

:-)

[varelse]

6. Wouldn't it make more sense to boycott Lieberman's corporate sponsors?

Surely not all of those are based in CT.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

16. That would be a brilliant move. Send the idea to Michael Moore nt

[MadBadger]

7. Why do you hate the hard working people of CT?

[Brickbat]

8. Sounds like when he bought a Honda to punish GM. WTF, Moore?

[Bjorn Against]

9. I want to hear from more directly on this, it doesn't look like the story matches the headline

In one sentence it says that Moore wants to boycott Connecticut which I think would be stupid considering Connecticut voters defeated Lieberman in the primary, it would not be fair to punish them for the actions of their Senator. If you read further into the story however it says "Moore says he will organize millions to boycott Connecticut businesses that have supported Lieberman", if he is only boycotting the businesses that give financial support to Lieberman then the boycott is focused in a more appropriate manner and I could get behind that. Boycotting certain Connecticut businesses based on their political contributions is a lot different than boycotting Connecticut.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

25. What difference is there between boycotting specifically Connecticut businesses and

boycotting Connecticut? I mean, if he's referring to boycotting one state's businesses, he's not boycotting another state's businesses, right? Just that one's.

[Bjorn Against]

29. It sounds to me like his plan is not aimed at all Connecticut businesses...

Rather I suspect it is just aimed at certain businesses that contribute to Lieberman's campaign. I want to hear his specific plans before I make judgment, my guess is that it will only be aimed at a few big companies and most Connecticut businesses will not be part of the boycott.

[virgogal]

10. I may get flamed here but I think Moore is losing it.

[Atman]

11. I love Michael Moore, but as a resident of CT, I say "GO FUCK YOURSELF!"

Pressure Lieberman to resign? Is Moore out of his fucking mind? We couldn't pressure him to leave by voting no in an election. He had to create a new party and truck in Republican money to keep his seat. He cares not one fuck what his constituents say, unless by "constituents" you mean "insurance and drug companies." He is the worst kind of whore.

I've written Joe Lieberman two or three times in the past. Each time, I received a nice, formal package with a cover letter thanking me for being a good citizen and then a twenty-page paper having absolutely NOTHING to do with the subject I had written about. It couldn't have been more transparent that Joe Lieberman didn't give a flying fuck about my concerns, let alone those of some struggling farmer in Iowa or laid-off auto worker in Michigan.

Joe cares about one thing and one thing only -- JOE.

I'm sure I could Photoshop a pretty convincing pic of Joe coming out of a Honey Baked Ham store at 9:30 on a Friday night and even the Orthodox Jews of Connecticut would still support him. He's like a big cockroach who refuses to die even after you've emptied a can of raid on his six-legged ass. What can we do, Mister Moore? What the bloody fuck can we do? Tourists don't flock to see Electric Boat, Phizer Pharmacuetical or the cluster of insurance companies in Hartford. They come here for our 26 family-owned wineries, our sea coast towns full of mom & pop eateries, galleries and shops, our beautiful countryside and B&B's.

Good plan, Moore. Starve those people already dealing with the aftermath of Bush's economic Armageddon, force them into the bullshit health-insurance "exchange," and for what? FOR WHAT, Michael Moore? So that Joe Lieberman can flip us all off one more time as he's cashing his next contribution check from Pharma and Insurance?

Moore, you had better check your own bank book, and then your soul. It appears your own wealth is making you just as out of touch as those Senators, Representatives and CEO's who've hijacked our nation's future. We in Connecticut don't need your advice on how to deal with Joe Lieberman; neither the head of the Senate nor the Democratic party chair can even take away his committee positions or move him to an office in the basement. What the fuck are WE supposed to do with him?

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[FarCenter]

12. Do yourself a favor - boycott Foxwood and Mohegan Sun casinos

[jonnyblitz]

19. I live next door to Mohegan Sun. nt

[LastNaturalist]

14. How do you boycott a state?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

18. You don't engage in tourism there? You find corporate hdqtrs and refuse to buy those products?

I'm guessing.

[FarCenter]

21. Don't use Otis elevators or escalators

Take the stairs instead

[Nikki Stone1]

22. Nah. They've already been paid for. Now BUYING an elevator would be verboten

:)

[LastNaturalist]

24. Here I've been boycotting most of the south and northeast all along.

And I never even knew it.

[Nikki Stone1]

27. LOL!!!!

:D

[hyphenate]

20. It's not likely to change

anything. Connecticut is probably the richest state, as well as the insurance industry capital of the world. It's not likely to turn into a liberal oasis overnight, nor are the attitudes of many of the state's residences going to change.

There are quite a few past and present rich families, and many of them ruthless, or always above board. People forget that Bush's family tree is in CT and not in Texas as he would have you believe. Many robber barons called it home. A lot of well-off New Yorkers commute to and from Connecticut as well.

If the per capita goes down there, we might have a chance to effect change sometime down the line. Many of them ARE Democrats, but not all of them are charitable, and Lieberman is certainly NOT one of them.



PS: I love Connecticut. I live in Massachusetts, and love all my New England neighbors. And this is not a slam against the really good Dems and liberals that reside there, but the fact is, the rich support Lieberman, whether we like it or not, and their money keeps supporting him as a "moderate" Dem and not as a liberal Dem. Lamont should have won, but the money that went to Lieberman helped keep him in the Senate.

[FarCenter]

23. All very true, but aren't all of their representatives Democrats?

along with the highly suspect Senator Dodd.

[hyphenate]

28. Dodd's pretty moderate

I would say, but the governorship right now (both G and LT G) are Republicans.

[ProgressIn2008]

26. LOL. I can hear the snappy musical number now, "Blame Connecticut!" nt