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Lamont’s campaigners are trumpeting the same theme in response to criticism from Lieberman about Lamont’s wealth keeping him disconnected from the average voter...
...cable television entrepreneur released his tax returns last month after pressure from Lieberman, showing an adjusted gross income of more than $2.8 million for 2005. His advisers estimate that his total wealth is around $200 million, according to The Times, about 10 percent of which comes from his inheritance...
...Gain from Lieberman's Loss With the Connecticut Senator vowing to run as an independent, Republicans would be licking their chops - if only they had more confidence in their candidate
Nothing whets the appetite of a political party like two members of the opposing party tearing each other to pieces. So after Connecticut Democrats delivered the final blows in Tuesday's bruising primary between incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman and anti-war multi-millionaire Ned Lamont - and with Lieberman vowing to run as an independent - you'd think Republicans would be licking their chops. With Leiberman's loss, the GOP could actually make a run for his crucial Senate seat. If they had the right candidate...
...Problem is, very few people think Alan Schlesinger - or Alan Gold, as he used to call himself when he was gambling at Connecticut's Indian casinos - is the right candidate. Last spring, back when Lamont was a joke and Lieberman looked unassailable, Schlesinger took the time to tour Connecticut collecting enough votes to get himself the Republican nomination. The former state legislator and mayor of Derby was not exactly a political star, but no one begrudged him the work he put in to get the party's nod. As one former GOP lawmaker put it in a recent...