I didn't blog this yesterday because of the Bill Clinton event, but Carl Feen, Joe Lieberman's first finance chair, endorsed Ned Lamont. There's a long backstory here involving anti-war Connecticut politics in the 1970s and a group of young reformers all coming into their own at the same time. Lieberman was a young progressive in those days, having worked in the civil rights movement and challenging a staid status quo. His gradual turn to the far right is a political tragedy, a textbook example of an institutionalist who gets bought off by the system without even realizing it.
Well his oldest friends realize it. Here are Feen's remarks.
Joe has lost touch with the people of Connecticut, the Democratic Party in Connecticut and Democrats across the County. His threats to leave the party and run on his own is an insult to all of us who have worked in the past to get him elected.His constant cheerleading of the Bush administration and their wrong priorities on the war, on so called "free trade" and on social security is undermining our party and hurting our candidates for Congress & Governor.
Joe also abandoned Bill Clinton when he shamefully sided yet again with the Republicans and condemned our Democratic President from the floor of the Senate.
I stand with Ned because he will not abandon the issues and the people that are about to elect him as the next Senator from the great State of Connecticut.
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