http://www.baltimoregroupblog.com/2006/07/31/thousands-of-lieberyouth-for-election-day/ Writers, hence dissidents Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:51:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.baltimoregroupblog.com/2006/07/31/thousands-of-lieberyouth-for-election-day/#comment-11471 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:22:03 +0000 http://www.baltimoregroupblog.com/2006/07/31/thousands-of-lieberyouth-for-election-day/#comment-11471 [...] The Lieberman campaign has claimed that much of the money went to pay “volunteers”, transport costs, materials, and supplies for the “volunteers” to use. I recall from my time in Connecticut that the going rate for Lieberman “volunteers” was $60 per day for most of the campaign (I was offered that to work for Joe as a canvasser, I turned it down). As we got closer to the election, the word was that Lieberman had seriously jacked up his pay rate to get every able bodied in need of extra cash to work for Joe. According to the New York Times, that rate was $150 per day (Times Select link): Lamont aides complained that the Lieberman team was trying to steal its workers by offering $150 for the day; Mr. Lamont was paying $85. Lieberman advisers would not confirm that, while promising a robust get-out-the-vote operation. [...] […] The Lieberman campaign has claimed that much of the money went to pay “volunteers”, transport costs, materials, and supplies for the “volunteers” to use. I recall from my time in Connecticut that the going rate for Lieberman “volunteers” was $60 per day for most of the campaign (I was offered that to work for Joe as a canvasser, I turned it down). As we got closer to the election, the word was that Lieberman had seriously jacked up his pay rate to get every able bodied in need of extra cash to work for Joe. According to the New York Times, that rate was $150 per day (Times Select link): Lamont aides complained that the Lieberman team was trying to steal its workers by offering $150 for the day; Mr. Lamont was paying $85. Lieberman advisers would not confirm that, while promising a robust get-out-the-vote operation. […]

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