Lieberman, through his Reuniting Our Country PAC, gave Smith’s reelection bid $5,000 on Oct. 10, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. …
The same day he wrote a check to Smith, Lieberman’s ROC PAC gave $5,000 to Rep. Peter King, the Long Island Republican. In radio and TV appearances the final days of the campaign, Lieberman also frequently said that a Democratic majority of 60 votes, a filibuster-proof level, would be a bad thing.
I’m sure Lieberman gave as late as he did to try to hide the contributions – he did something similar with his shady petty cash accounts in 2006. Senate fundraising reports take forever to process – believe it or not, they are filed in hardcopy form and scanned in! It’s insane (and of course the GOP has blocked the ridiculously obvious reforms that would bring the Senate into the 20th century). It also means that final Senate reports are not publicly available until after the election, which totally defeats the point of campaign finance disclosure laws.
The Peter King donation would have been knowable, but few people were looking since King didn’t have competitive race. But for that reason – the closeness of the contest – the donation to El Gordo was the far bigger deal. It was disgusting enough that Joementia vocally supported Susan Collins and Norm Coleman (hell, if Franken loses, we can blame it on Lieberman). But cutting a check? That is truly a crime.
Like I said, what an asshole – not that we didn’t know that already.
and, you know, everything else.
Incidentally, I believe Joe Lieberman was the first politician I ever really despised. This was back when I was a mere child, before Bush stole the election of course, and when Joe was focusing on his “video games are the devil” schtick rather than his “I’m a ‘Democrat’ who thinks Democrats are terrorist marxist enemies of America” schtick.
Needless to say, I was delighted when he lost the primary.
What a scumbag, that’s beyond forgiving.
You know I was for the whole let Lieberman stay on just so we can have 60 seats argument, but fuck him he needs to go.
Donating to Peter Fucking King and Gordon Smith wow…..must make our asshole democratic leadership proud to know they supported him over Lamont.
Did they know this before the vote to kick him out of the chairmanship?
We need to take up the SNL Rahm Skit and make him walk back to Connecticut naked, the Fucking Traitor.
And it’s about time someone give him a good ass-kickin’! F*ck Loserman & f*ck his attempt to rebrand himself as a “Democrat” in time for 2012! Call me when Ned Lamont runs again. As long as he actually has a plan to win this time, I’ll personally fly to Connecticut to campaign for him.
..he’d be down in Georgia helping Martin. Georgia is probably one of the few places he’d actually be a net positive.
Of course saying “if Lieberman was a real Democrat” is like saying “if Mike Tyson was a chessmaster” or “if Merlin the Wizard actually was alive and lived in Greenwich Village” or “if Stay Puft the Marshmallow Man actually existed and was on the five dollar bill” or “if there really was a Santa Claus.” An interesting and fun alternate universe to ponder. But not something I would exactly expect to see anytime soon.
I’m no fan of Lieberman, and I hope he loses the next time he runs. But I think it’s disingenuous to complain about the $10,000 here that he donated to Republicans, or the $15-$20,000 he donated previously in the cycle, and totally ignore the $230,000 he donated to the DSCC ($200,000 directly and $30,000 from his PAC). I mean, he gave 8-10 times as much to Democrats than he did to Republicans, yet bloggers want to pretend that he did nothing at all for Democrats this cycle. In fact, Lieberman did more to elect Democratic Senators this cycle than probably anyone who posts to this blog (including me – I only gave $1,750, which is pretty much dwarfed by Joe’s contributions).
Anyone who thinks the fact that he was one of the leading donors to the DSCC this cycle had no impact on the caucus vote is pretty naive.
So he donated $100k to the DSCC, that’s it isn’t?
He campaigned for McCain, for Collins, donated to Smith, wrote an op-ed for Coleman, and also donated randomly to King.
He did more shit for the other side than ours!
I’m emailing Klobuchar’s office later. This is absolutely ridiculous.