I'm getting ready to leave New Haven for the
next stop on my book tour, but I thought I would share my thoughts on Senate candidate
Ned Lamont after he and I did a big event for
Hostile Takeover last night here. The gathering at the Atticus Book Store was positively terrific (
check out some pictures from the event here). As the
New Haven Independent reports this morning,
my book "stars Sen. Joe Lieberman as a favorite bedfellow of Big Money" - and his starring role was a big topic of discussion with the overflow crowd last night. Lieberman likes to call himself a "centrist" but as the Independent correctly notes, I and Ned believe that "a cooperator with the current corrupt administration isn't a 'centrist,' but a strategic 'hijacker'." I made it pretty plain, telling told the reporter that "Lieberman decides to be part of a consensus in Washington that pushes the hostile takeover of our government." I also notoed that Ned's campaign is a critical strike back against that consensus.
With
Ned headlining the event, somewhere between 75 and 100 people showed up to discuss
Hostile Takeover - and you could really feel the energy in the room. People here clearly feel they are on the cusp of taking Connecticut's Senate seat back from Lieberman - a guy who has time and again sided with those Big Money interests that have perpetrated a hostile takeover of our government.
I was very impressed with Ned - he's both totally down to earth and a serious policy maven. Put another way, this is a person who is both a normal human being and also serious about changing the direction of this country. And he's clearly not overly "packaged" - he has a good sense of what he wants to do, as opposed to relying on pollsters/operatives to tell him what to do/say. This is going to be a very serious race. Nedrenaline is obviously threatening Joementum - and that's a very good thing for democracy.