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Chris, I hope you'll forgive my crankiness. I confess I'm in full panic mode right now. The Lieberman campaign blanketed church parking lots in my city with flyers implying Ned is a racist this morning. Their canvassers are all over town. And phones are going unmanned in Ned Lamont's office when we SHOULD have people lined up out the door to volunteer. I don't want to rest and congratulate ourselves on how far "we've" gotten. I don't want another symbolic victory. I want to win this damn thing.

I apologize for my cranky rant.

(The artist formerly known as "Maura in VA"!)

by Maura in CT on Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 10:18:28 PM EST
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Re: Cranky (3.00 / 1)

Don't apologize, Maura. You're 100% right, both about the Dean campaign and about people needing to get off their ass and get to work.

As the financial data says, the "movement" has collectively raised about 1.5 million for Lamont. That's about 2% of what Howard Dean raised--weak. And we need a lot work done to win this thing.

(For the record, I live in Boston, MA. Canvassed in CT last Sunday, am away this weekend, then back to CT for the 3 days before the election.)

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by Go Vegetarian on Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 10:46:03 PM EST
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Thank you (none / 0)

I wish I could go down, but being a student, I don't have the financial ability to do so, thanks for filling in for all of us that can't.

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by Pitin on Mon Jul 31, 2006 at 12:52:12 AM EST
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Maura - did the fliers have Lieberman for Senate tagged on it? Or Connecticut for Lieberman? Or made by "Harvey Bellins"???

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by PhiloTBG on Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 11:44:17 PM EST
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I don't have the flyer in front of me (I gave it to the Lamont campaign) but I'm 98% certain that it said, "Paid for and authorized by Friends of Joe Lieberman. Copied in-house by volunteers."

I might be off by an article or preposition, but I'm sure the content said it was officially from the campaign but not copied by a union shop. (They're recent "hug" buttons weren't union, either.)

The photocopied flyers were accompanied by a color Lieberman lit piece from their standard lit stable. It was the same one the Stamford DTC sent to my mom with an absentee ballot application.

(The artist formerly known as "Maura in VA"!)

by Maura in CT on Mon Jul 31, 2006 at 12:52:43 AM EST
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Re: Cranky (none / 0)

Maura,

Can you scan a copy of the flyer and e-mail it to:

http://www.wtnh.com/

http://www.nbc30.com

http://www.wfsb.com/index.html

http://fox61.trb.com/

Asking local news to cover this may very well be worth the effort.

by justinh on Mon Jul 31, 2006 at 01:49:00 PM EST
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