Lamont returns DSA check
New York Post - September 18, 2006
SOCIALIST GROUP BACKS SEN. JOE FOE IN CONN.
By MAGGIE HABERMAN
Connecticut upstart Democrat Ned Lamont’s campaign got a donation
recently from the self-described leading Democratic socialist group
in the country, federal election records show.
Lamont - whose family’s political history has drawn attention because
of his socialist great-uncle, Corliss Lamont - received the $100
check from the Democratic Socialists of America political-action
committee on June 23. Lamont, a Greenwich businessman, ousted
incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary on an anti-
Iraq war message. Lieberman will run as an independent in November.
DSA official Frank Llewellyn said the campaign “did not solicit us
for the donation.” He added that the PAC didn’t support Lamont
because of his famous uncle, saying, “Any candidate who took the
position that he did [about the war]” against an incumbent who voted
for it would’ve gotten DSA’s support.
Lamont spokeswoman Liz Dupont-Diehl said that the candidate accepts
money only from “leadership PACs [and] has a policy of not accepting
PAC money. That check is in the process of being returned.”
Meanwhile, Lieberman will be feted at a fund-raiser in New York
hosted by Mayor Bloomberg on Nov. 1, sources said.