| Never one to enjoy his summer, Stuartwrites to the Stamford Advocate, hoping for a sympathetic audience:
To the editor:
"Critic calls for probe for Lieberman's party" July 11) contains a number of misstatements and partial information regarding the Connecticut for Lieberman party.
I was the first to join the party on Aug. 9, 2006. I resigned from the Democratic Party after being registered lifelong as a Democrat. I was shocked that a radical element, fueled by the vast wealth of a multimillionaire, one-issue candidate, would choose to attempt to destroy the career of the party's beacon of integrity through a campaign of lies, which continues today.
Beacon of integrity? This is a formal invitation to join the rest of us in the reality based community, Mr. Korchin.
Connecticut for Lieberman is a new party that carries on what used to be the ideals of the Democratic Party: a liberal approach to domestic issues, coupled with a strong commitment to a robust foreign policy.
Can bombing Iran without cause be described as robust? I prefer these words:
"annihilative, calamitous, cancerous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, devastating, dire, disastrous, eradicative, evil, ruinous, slaughterous, suicidal."
Sorry, I digress. Stuart continues:
New party rules were filed on Jan, 12, 2007, and were accepted by the secretary of the state. Under the rules, which have not been challenged, the annual meeting of Connecticut for Lieberman was in August.
The tiny gathering of Lamont supporters referred to in the article is not representative of the principles of Connecticut for Lieberman.
Given The Advocate's lapses in this matter, I believe a correction is in order.
Stuart R. Korchin
Stuart, you dip, even Wikipedia made you take out the 'tiny' adjective.
The Advocate had this ready rebuttal, which will only cause Stuart more heartburn.
To the editor:
Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz would rather risk Connecticut's good name as the Constitution State than tangle with a United States senator.
She demonstrated this by ruling that a candidate who forms a political party is not required to join it. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, after losing the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont, ran as a candidate of the Connecticut for Lieberman party but did not change his party registration.
In fact, none of the 29 people who founded the party and circulated petitions in its name to get Lieberman on the ballot joined the party either. It was a party without a single member.
Fairfield University professor John Orman, claiming that Lieberman used the party solely as a device for getting on the ballot with no intention of forming a real party, asked Bysiewicz to request an opinion from Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as to whether Lieberman violated a state law that prohibits circulating a false petition.
Bysiewicz skirted the issue of whether Lieberman formed the party under false pretenses, saying he had "met all the requirements to petition onto the ballot."
Eight years ago, Lieberman ran for two offices at the same time - vice president and senator. No law in Connecticut said you couldn't do this. No law now requires that a political party have actual members. But the fact that legislators didn't anticipate the need for such laws doesn't mean these actions are acceptable.
Remembering that it took a lawsuit and a court order to give us a direct primary, we need a secretary of the state who will work for the enactment of laws to shield us from abuses of the electoral system. Maybe we need a new secretary of the state.
Mary B. Sullivan
Greenwich
You mean this Mary Sullivan, esteemed Greenwich resident and friend of my 75 year old mother?
Mary Sullivan, a former Democratic National Committee member from Riverside, said she would also back Lamont in a primary.
"I think it's always a long-shot, but on the other hand, I think there must be a lot of disillusionment with Joe Lieberman among many Democrats, and I think they would welcome a chance to debate the whole record of Lieberman," Sullivan said.
(via CTBlog)
Stuart, give it up and go to the beach. |
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