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Joe Lieberman's 2006 Campaign To Pay $50,000 Fine

I remember reading about this when it was going on, and it was obviously paying for votes. I'm sorry he didn't get fined more.

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's campaign will pay a $50,000 penalty to settle allegations of improper petty cash payments made to workers during a hard-fought race in 2006 for the U.S. Senate.

The agreement between the Federal Election Commission and the Lieberman camp stems from a complaint filed by the campaign of Ned Lamont, Lieberman's opponent. Lamont beat Lieberman in the Democratic primary, but Lieberman won the general election after running as an independent.

"It is a pretty significant penalty," Lamont's campaign manager, Tom Swan, said Monday.

Swan had asked the Federal Election Commission to review about $350,0000 in cash expenditures Lieberman reported as stipends paid to workers in the two weeks before the Democratic primary. The money was used for about 1,000 canvassers in the campaign's get-out-the-vote efforts, documents show.

Joe-the-Schmo* Lieberman "perpetrated fraud"

By GottaLaff

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Lieberman's Party Turns Against Him

The Chronicle of Higher Education notes that when Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) "created his own political party after losing the 2006 Connecticut Democratic primary, critics decried Connecticut for Lieberman as 'A Party of One.'"

"Two years later, his party not only has five candidates, it also has a new platform: 'The Connecticut for Lieberman Party rejects the fraud perpetrated on the members of this party and the citizens of Connecticut by Joe Lieberman.'"

Said one member: "I wouldn't be surprised to see a Connecticut for Lieberman candidate running against Joe Lieberman in 2012."

*Schmo: foolish or stupid person; naive person; person easy to deceive; a goof (American Jewish)

A Lieberman Political Party That Opposes Lieberman

By GottaLaff

The video is of Lieberman speaking to the RNC:

Even casual observers know that Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut has invested significant time and political capital in electing John McCain president.

So, it only follows that the Connecticut for Lieberman Party would be squarely for McCain, right?

Wrong.

It's not even for Lieberman.

Not any more.

Confused?

Welcome to the world of third-party politics.

Led by John Mertens, a Trinity College engineering professor with a passion for independent politics and a disdain for Joe Lieberman, a few dozen voters have resurrected the senator's old ballot line.

After losing the Democratic primary in 2006, Lieberman ran for re-election as a petitioning candidate. To get his own ballot line, Lieberman took the initial steps to create a new party, Connecticut for Lieberman.

But he abandoned the name and the embryonic party as soon as he won. [...]

Ballot access is everything in third-party politics. [...]

Mertens contacted Orman and proposed using Connecticut for Lieberman as a real political party. Orman agreed, on the condition that Mertens become chairman and take over the effort.

As the marketers would say, Mertens has "re-purposed" the old brand into an anti-Lieberman vehicle that is running a half-dozen candidates for state legislature this year and has endorsed Barack Obama for president. [...]

On its website, the party describes itself: "The CFL is an independent, anti-war, anti-corruption, pro-fiscal responsibility, pro-democracy party, that stands for individual liberties and real problem-solving in government."

Mertens said that the party looks forward to endorsing a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010, when Christopher Dodd is up for re-election.

If Lieberman were to run again in 2012, the senator could look forward to being opposed by a nominee of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party. A spokesman said that Lieberman has no comment on the new direction of his old brand. [...]

"This is not a prank," Mertens said. "It is a takeover. This party has real value."

Even if it was for Joe Lieberman before it was against him.

The old switcheroo.