Here is the response from the Connecticut for Lieberman Party Chair, John Orman:
Lieberman Lies to Secretary of State and Citizens of Connecticut Again
(Shown here with Jane Hamsher)
Update from the Stamford Times, which notes that Joe's wife and daughter registered as unaffiliated.
This past week Senator Joseph Lieberman had a chance to keep his promise that he made to the Secretary of State that he would join another party.
Of course he continued his deception and he registered once again as a Democrat in his new town of Stamford. In order to get on the ballot last year after losing the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont, Lieberman promised that he would not be running as a Democrat which would violate state law by having two members of the same party running for the same office after the primaries.
He circulated a petition to form a new party in Connecticut called "Connecticut for Lieberman". I challenged him in August 2006 and said he had no intention of joining such a party, that he was going to remain a Democrat and that he was just using this gimmick to keep on running as a stealth Democrat. The new party had no party chair, no rules, no platform, nada.
I lost with the Secretary of State and the Elections Enforcement commission who said give Joe time. They maintained that he did not circulate a false petition by promising to form his own party. He was challenged in New Haven by citizens who wanted to take Joe off the Democratic ranks. He prevailed.
After the election in which he was elected as the Connecticut for Lieberman Party Senate candidate, he once again failed to join or start his fake party as he promised to do so he could run. I took over his fake party and tried to turn it into a party to hold Joe accountable.
In January 2007 my rules for his party were accepted and at the organizational meeting I was elected chair of Connecticut for Lieberman Party.
We asked Joe to join in order to live up to his promise so that he would not be breaking the law by having circulated a false petition. There was no response from Joe.
Then I asked the Secretary of State to ask the Attorney General to rule whether or not Joe circulated a false petition by stating he was going to form a new party when he had absolutely no intention at all of ever leaving the Democratic Party. She refused to ask the AG his opinion, saying that Joe had not done anything wrong, he just changed his mind about starting a new party.
Last week Joe went into register in his new town of Stamford after moving from New Haven. Of all the computer prompts he could have selected, The Connecticut for Lieberman Party, the Republican Party, etc., he picked the Democratic Party thus completing his lie to the Secretary of State and the citizens of Connecticut.
He was allowed to run as a defeated Democratic candidate after losing to Ned Lamont. Still we have had no changes at all in Connecticut law so a person can still claim that he will join a new party, get to run, and then not ever join the new party.
When she was live blogging on MyLeftnutmeg.com this summer, the Secretary of State wrote that the time to protest what Lieberman was doing was during the election and not after. She wrote that no one protested about what Joe was doing. That is just not correct. As elected chair of CFL, I think Joe should be called not independently elected Democrat, or Ind-Conn. I think he should be called Democrat who lied to the Secretary of State.