The Connecticut for Lieberman Party is holding a statewide party meeting to nominate candidates for office on March 6, 2008 at 6:30 PM at 243 Zion Street in Hartford, Connecticut.
(CGG and I collaborated on this diary. Greetings from Chicago! - promoted by spazeboy)
From left to right:
Chrissy, Tim Tagaris, Matt Browner-Hamlin, TrueBlueCT, Chris Bowers, CGG, Spazeboy, TParty
Hello from YearlyKos! It's just after 6am here in Chicago and I'm sitting here in the convention center with Spazeboy. We're in for a busy day today but I wanted to let you know how the CFL team did at last night's pub quiz.
Tparty served as our team captain. The other members of Team CFL were: me, Spazeboy, TrueblueCT, Tim Tagaris, Chrissy, Matt Browner-Hamlin, and special guest (some would say 'ringer') Chris Bowers.
We're pretty sure we came in just under the top ten. Teams we can remember beating: Moveon, MyDD, YearlyKnos staff and many others. Over twenty teams played in the quiz so we're really proud of our score.
We were of course confident that we would be victorious, but in true Lieber-fashion had a plan b. Halfway through the quiz the team began collecting signatures demanding that Team CFL be allowed to reform as another team multiple times until we won.
Who came in first? I can't remember. But does it matter? No, we were winners in our own minds! CFL 4EVA!!!
"The Connecticut for Lieberman Party Censures Senator Lieberman"
The executive officers of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party announced today that its glorious namesake Senator Joseph Lieberman has been acclaimed censured by the party for upholding its ideals .
Chair John Orman, Vice-Chair Jonathan Kantrowitz and Secretary Sue Henshaw voted unanimously to acclaim
censure Lieberman for his actions. The party leaders said,
Whereas Senator Lieberman promised during the fall election that he supported efforts to bring the troops home and that no one in Connecticut wanted to bring home the troops more than Senator Lieberman, but then changed his position to supporting a troop surge after winning the election;
Whereas Senator Lieberman promised the Secretary of State that he would form a new third party called Connecticut for Lieberman so he could run after losing the Democratic nomination in 2006, and then he did not form such a party and he has no intention of forming such a party;
Whereas Senator Lieberman promised to provide oversight hearings during the election about President Bush's lack of response to Hurricane Katrina , and then failed to do so after winning the election;
Whereas Senator Lieberman has failed to account for the $387,000 miscellaneous expenditure during the last election;
Whereas Senator Lieberman continues to vote against the extraordinary majority of Connecticut citizens who want to get out of the war in Iraq;
Be it resolved that the Executive Committee of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party does hereby acclaimcensure Senator Joseph Lieberman for his actions.
The motion passed 3-0 and Senator Lieberman was acclaimed.
Chairman Orman declared that if Senator Lieberman continues to embody the party's ideals in such a spectacular manner there is no question but that he will be the Connecticut for Lieberman Party's candidate for President in 2008 censured.
Real quick reminder, tonight both the New Haven and Fairfield County DFAs will be meeting: New Haven's meeting at Naples Pizza (6:30pm) will feature Lon Seidman and a conversation on a statewide progressive coalition, and Fairfield County's meeting at the Norwalk Silver Star diner will feature a campaign roundup with George Jepsen, Kim Fawcett, and Dave Mooney.
For more events (including the CFL meeting / quiz game in Fairfield, CT New Junkie Benefit in Hartford, and state government training session in Clinton, see this roundup of events.
Melissa Bailey files her report on the CFL get-together, with the full platform and some details of the pre-meeting Orman / Korchin showdown. (Not to fuss, but Jon withdrew his alternate platform.)
CT News Junkie reports on the results the state is not getting for all their Medicaid spending. This is the key wedge issue for single-payer, stripping MCOs of their lucrative contracts to provide government-funded services.
Blog for choice tomorrow. Godammit, we're going to get MLN on the Family Institute Enemies List one of these days! I'll be on the lookout for good pro-choice / reproductive freedom posts tomorrow.
CTBlue catches Lanny Davis confusing "bipartisanship" with "halfway between mediocre and insane." And an old link from Colin in case you forgot all about Lanny's style. "Bill O'Reilly in a donkey mask" still seems apt.
UPDATE 8:45pm The real legislation to redeploy U.S. troops from Iraq, sponsored by the Out of Iraq Caucus. Larson is the only one I could find as a member, does anyone know about Courtney or Murphy? Either way, H.R. 508 is the bill to watch.
Also, a poll over the fold: I don't run the joint, but I'm interested in what MLN readers are thinking on this.
Okay, so we don't have recalls in Connecticut (for which I am thankful, save this one time). We can, however, petition for ballot questions for the 2007 elections. I propose we get a (non-binding, unenforceable) "Dump Joe?" question on the ballot.
Branford Boy has the definitive diary on this subject so go here for more. http://www.myleftnut...
But here is what should be done. (So simple.) Dr Orman has a 6 yr term, he needs to call another meeting (this morning) stating that no bylaws can be changed without approval of the chair.
Second, let's add a few more members. And if you need an honorary out of stater or someone to write snarky press releases I can put them on here.
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