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With regards to the College Republicans letter

by: PsiFighter37

Wed Aug 02, 2006 at 19:34:12 PM EDT

Let me preface this: I'm posting this at the request of a fellow Penn student of mine who works for the Lieberman campaign.

Earlier today, it was posted at Daily Kos and LamontBlog that someone with the Princeton College Republicans had suggested that they organize to go to Connecticut and help out Joe Lieberman with the primary. This seems to have made a lot of waves, with some people even suggesting that people be there to greet them.

Please do not do this. While these kids coming in are out of state, none of them are part of the College Republicans - my contact personally vetted everyone to ensure that they were not part of CR or another GOP-affiliated group. Furthermore, the campaign never offered to bus in the College Republicans; this was their own idea to 'infiltrate' Lieberman's campaign, if you will. These are unpaid volunteers in the 16-21 age range whose only accommodations are sleeping quarters in a college dormitory. So I would ask that we drop this issue and don't try and make any more hay out of it.

You may debate the authenticity of what my friend said, but I trust them enough to tell me the truth on this matter, even if they are working for the other side.

Thank you.

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With regards to the College Republicans letter | 4 comments

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Nice idea, Psi, but tell your friend that the CR issue is certainly more of a "something" that the Round Hill race-baiting tactic. Are they going to disavow it, or drop it to be decent?

No, the Lieberman campaign sent the College Republicans the invite, offered to pay their way, so there should be fallout from this. Unilateral disarmament isn't going to work here. Especially if ratfuckers like the college republicans are in the mix.

Here's a question: what school is offering accommodations to Lieberman campaign staff? You don't need to tell me, but if it's a publicly-funded institution, there should be some serious hell to pay.

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by: mattw @ Thu Aug 03, 2006 at 00:18:50 AM UTC

Did you read the email? (0.00 / 0)

Nowhere does it say that anyone from the Lieberman campaign invited the College Republicans to come. The buses were open for anyone to come on, but the Lieberman campaign vetted potential volunteers for such connections before they came on.

If it turns out otherwise and this person lied to me, then feel free to verbally assault me as much as you'd like. However, I'm passing along the word from this person who I have the utmost trust in. Make a point that Lieberman can't get enough in-state volunteer help, but let's not push this any further.

"Inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen." -Al Gore

by: PsiFighter37 @ Thu Aug 03, 2006 at 00:29:13 AM UTC

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