AFSCME Drops Lieberman, Citing Movement Toward Bush Policies

[Rose Siding]

One of the state's largest labor unions has dropped its endorsement of U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and switched its support to Democratic primary winner Ned Lamont.

The switch by Council 4 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees gives Lamont his biggest boost from organized labor since the primary.

"Since the Aug. 8 primary, we paid close attention to the remarks of both men," Luciano said. "We saw Joe Lieberman moving closer and closer to Bush, while Ned Lamont held firm in his strong opposition to the direction Bush is taking us."

Council 4 is a politically active union that represents 35,000 members and is the state's largest affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Lieberman and Lamont each lobbied for the endorsement in recent weeks, aware that Council 4 was revisiting its Senate endorsement. This culminated in personal appeals to union delegates at their New Britain headquarters Friday.

"In the end, our delegates realized that it boiled down to a simple question: Which candidate will stand up to George Bush and Dick Cheney?" Luciano said. "That candidate is Ned Lamont and only Ned Lamont."

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-lamont0918.artsep18,0,7835676.story

[wicket]

1. Fantastic news!!!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[MadMaddie]

2. Bravo.....

It doesn't help Lieberwhore that prominent * Repugs are openly supporting him...but he is so overwhelmed in his selfish indulgence.....that he fails to see it....

[Rose Siding]

3. Here's something I didn't know about Joe before-

LIEBERMAN LEADS EFFORT TO BLOCK UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE: In the 1990s, Lieberman spearheaded the effort to shut down any congressional debate over health care. On 8/20/94, Knight Ridder newspapers reported that the "dream of guaranteed, cradle-to-grave health insurance for all Americans appeared to be dead Friday" after Lieberman introduced legislation designed to effectively undermine and kill major health reform being debated in the Senate. Since that time, Lieberman has not pushed any serious plan to expand health care to all Americans. This is likely the reason that when Lieberman was campaigning in Arizona during the 2004 Democratic presidential primary, the state’s largest newspaper noted Lieberman "do not favor universal health care."

http://nedlamont.com/truthaboutjoe/1468/ever-wonder-what-18-million-in-health-industry-cash-buys

Ugh -Makes me wonder how any union could have even considered endorsing him. What was Al thinking?!