I’ve been up to my eyeballs investigating the Lieberman petty cash slush fund and it’s possible connections to street money. What I hadn’t been looking into was other improprieties connected to Lieberman’s get out the vote operation in the primary and since. Not surprisingly, though, the Lieberman campaign has been tied to GOTV activities that […]

I had not heard of the term “street money” before about a week ago. Yet as I’ve looked into the story of Joe Lieberman’s $387,000 in unaccounted petty cash disbursements, the term keeps coming up. Street money is a term that describes cash campaigns use to pay people to vote for their candidate. Street money […]

This is a letter from the clean election watchdog group, Public Campaign Action Fund. They are a nonpartisan group and their chief interest is making sure our elections are clean and ethical. Not surprisingly they take serious issue with the Lieberman campaign’s expenditure of $387,000 in petty cash disbursements. Will the Lieberman campaign start […]

Cliff Schecter has what I believe to be the most comprehensive post on all of the reasons Democrats hate Joe Lieberman. Schecter lists Joe’s “endless hypocrisy” in this article on AlterNet, though you probably know him from his frequent whoopings of Republican hacks on MSNBC. At the end of a 2,500 word chronicling of Lieberman’s […]

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Media coverage of Joe’s $387,561 in unaccounted petty cash disbursements has been effectively zero. Today, though, Timothy Brennan has a great op-ed in the Hartford Courant calling for Lieberman to account for all of his petty cash and answer the question of why he is spending so much money under the table. Jennifer Medina’s article […]

We bear the weight of the nation on our shoulders. We activists, bloggers, informed citizens giving all of our energy to political campaigns. We believe in earnest that the candidates we work day and night for will help restore dignity to our country and make America a better place. And as November 7th comes closer, […]

I’ve spent the afternoon in the Norwalk office of the Lamont campaign. The phone lines are sizzling hot from the thousands of calls made today by volunteers (I know it’s confusing with my coverage of the Lieberman petty cash scandal, but when I say volunteers here it means that they’re not paid). The foul weather […]

Yesterday readers at My Left Nutmeg dove into the October FEC filings of twenty senate candidates - including politicians who fought a hard primary and won, politicians who lost their primary, and politicians who now face a serious general election challenge, but had no primary challenger. I believe that the list of candidates we covered […]

With Ford, Webb and a score of House candidates under extreme negative attack these days, cable news has been doing the devil’s work by replaying Republican campaign ads over and over, ostensibly to debate how deplorable they are. Sure, negative campaigning has been a story all summer, e.g. with the Macaca issue, but this […]