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Lieberman Sidesteps Endorsement Debacle in Connecticut Democratic Caucus.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003

By Elizabeth Hamilton, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 6--It was going to be a public political dissing -- the liberal arm of the state Democratic Party holding a convention and not endorsing Connecticut's presidential candidate, Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

But Lieberman's campaign caught wind of it before the Caucus of Connecticut Democrats' Saturday meeting, when the group will endorse a presidential candidate, and made a pre-emptive strike Wednesday by bowing out of the contest.

To paraphrase: Take our candidate's name off the list. We don't want your endorsement anyway.

Touche.

Calling the CCD a "small, marginalized organization," Lieberman spokesman Dan Gerstein said its failure...

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