Who is Ned Lamont? A graduate of Harvard who earned a master's degree in business from Yale.
A man who, together with his wife, earned more than 90% of their family wealth as successful entrepreneurs in communications technology and the capital markets. A man whose three children all attended Greenwich High School. A man who for years volunteered his time to teach in one of the poorest high schools in Connecticut. A man who understands, as Joe Lieberman does not, that the senseless war in Iraq is not "just one issue" to the mothers and fathers of the nearly 22,000 young Americans who've been killed and wounded there, and to their children and orphans, wives and widows. A man who understands that George Bush pushed us into that war with dishonesty and distortions and who isn't afraid to say so. A man who had the courage to challenge a long-term incumbent who abandoned the principles of our state and disdains Democratic voters. A man who refuses to remain silent while George Bush appoints and Joe Lieberman rubberstamps one Far Right extremist judge to the Supreme Court after another. A man who refuses to remain silent while more than 40 million Americans have no health care insurance and while rising health insurance premiums bankrupt one American company after another. A man who refuses to sit idly by while Joe Lieberman colludes with George Bush to privatize Social Security. A man who understands that it does not imperil the security of our nation to criticize the incompetence and dishonesty of George Bush, as Joe Lieberman asserts, but is, in fact, the duty of patriotic Americans to speak out. A man who understands, as Joe Lieberman does not, that heartrending end-of-life decisions should be made by family members in consultation with their doctors and clergy, not by government bureaucrats and Far Right politicians. A man who understands that the massive federal deficits compiled by this irresponsible Republican administration are creating ruinous levels of debt that will severely burden our children for decades to come and need to be reversed. Who is Ned Lamont? The man who deserves to be elected United States Senator from Connecticut.