The Daily Background
| Feingold will support Lamont if he wins the CT-primary
Filed at 3:51 pm, Sunday June 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Earlier today on Meet the Press, NBC’s Tim Russert asked Senator Russ Feingold if he support Lieberman or Lamont in the Connecticut primary this August. Feingold said he wouldn’t support anybody in the primary, but would support whichever one was the Democratic canidate. He noted that Lamont’s positions on the issues were a lot closer to his own than Sentaor Lieberman’s however. Man, I got nothing but respect for Russ.
Crooks & Liars (which has recently migrated to a WordPress site, yay!) has an extended video of Russ on Meet the Press(multiformat choice of Quicktime and Windows Media of course).
Have you heard about the Akaka primary Hawaii? It’s a reverse Lieberman situation, where anti-war Akaka is being challenged by Bush sympathizing Case. Akaka is one of 13 Senators to vote for a firm timetable of withdrawl of U.S. troops from Iraq, while Case rubberstamped Bush’s war in a house vote the week before. I just wrote a big blog posting about it that I thought you might be interested in. Akaka needs as much support as we can give him.