JULY
25, 2006 --
The
Connecticut Democratic primary clash between U.S. Senator Joseph
Lieberman and challenger Ned Lamont (great-grandson of J.P. Morgan's Thomas
W. Lamont - think Harvard's Lamont
Library) is probably the country's top political contest this summer.
LPR thinks the Connecticut Agricultural
Fair, less than two weeks before the August 8 primary, is a great press-the-flesh
opportunity for the candidates.
LPR wonders if Sen. Lieberman, should he be defeated by Mr. Lamont, would be
offered, and take, the post of special Mideast envoy.
If President Bush asks Lieberman to join his administration, it would likely
provoke a chorus of "I told you so" from the anti-Lieberman Democratic
zealots.
If Sen. Lieberman accepted such appointment -- effective immediately -- it might
give Gov. Rell the chance to make a Republican Connecticut's junior U.S.
senator -- at least till the end of the year.
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Ned
Lamont's sign along the roadside.
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LPR
got this photo of Lieberman signs, waiting to be placed
on Connecticut lawns, in the senator's
Waterbury campaign office, July 21. As the photo was taken, a young
man told LPR that this was private
property and photos could not be taken unless the press secretary was
present. LPR believes that this
individual's demand is contrary to the spirit of the Supreme
Court's 1944 decision in Smith v. Allright (primaries are state agencies)
which, arguably, would support the claim that open areas in primary offices
are public spaces. This is not to preclude the possibility that
officials and/or staff may come to view their positions as private entitlements.
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