Party Faithful Turn Out For Lamont
2006-10-02
Source: The Connecticut Day
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rss feedFor the more than 70 people who came to the pavilion on Saybrook Point Sunday, $100 a hot dog was not too steep a price to pay to back the candidacy of Democrat Ned Lamont.
And former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, state Democratic Party Chairman George Jepson and Annie Lamont were there to tell them why her husband should be the next U.S. senator from Connecticut.
Wilson, who said he had no particular animus toward incumbent U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, "other than to believe that when the voters turn you out, you're supposed to go away," gave his support to Lamont because, in Wilson's words, the Bush administration needs to be held accountable.
"The Republican majority in Congress has abrogated its constitutional responsibilities to provide oversight of the executive branch," Wilson said. "It has sacrificed the Constitution of the United States on the altar of partisan politics to a radical regime."
And Lieberman, Jepsen said, has shown he's not the man to hold this administration to account.
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