AUGUST
28, 2006 --
Michael
J. Jarjura is the mayor of Waterbury, CT. Last September he lost his
bid for re-election as the Democratic nominee in a primary.
Unable to get on the ballot in the general election he decided to run as a
write-in candidate: and won with a plurality of 39% in a field of six.
LPR got this photo of the mayor on August 22, learning only later that he had
endorsed Senator Lieberman, after the senator lost his Democratic primary bid
to Ned Lamont, whose campaign manager said some nasty things about Waterbury
after 60% of the city's Democrats gave their primary votes to the senator.
Apparently Mr. Jarjura decided to take
the write-in route on realizing that only a small percentage of Democrats turned
out for the mayoral primary. More evidence that primaries today do not reflect
party-wide sentiment, perhaps, which goes
counter to what Mr. Lamont and his new political friends would have us believe.
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Senator
Lieberman's Waterbury primary headquarters -- now abandoned.
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