Lieberman drops out.

[Strk]

It was just on the news and CNN has a banner about it. I'll post a link to a story once one shows up.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Strk
It was just on the news and CNN has a banner about it. I'll post a link to a story once one shows up.

2-3-2004 Lieberman Abandons Presidential Race

Just last month, Gore delivered a major blow to his former running mate's campaign by endorsing Dean. The slight briefly invigorated the campaign, but it was all too much for his stumbling campaign to overcome.

 

[kylebisme]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Martin]

One has to wonder why Kucinich and Sharpton are still there...

 

[Martin]

Also, Dean should go too, but I suppose he still has delusions of grandeur. I suppose these three will drop out after the next round of primaries (what is that anyway? next tuesday?)

 

[Genesys]

thats too bad, I like Lieberman. I would vote for him.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

That's good . . . I like Lieberman . . . but I wouldn't vote for him.

Why Sharpton will not drop out.
Village Voice

Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton.

Credico said Stone explained his interest in working with Sharpton by saying that they had "a mutual obsession: We both hate the Democratic Party." Stone told Credico that he "would have some fun with Sharpton's campaign" and "bring Terry McAuliffe to his knees." Stone, Credico, and Sheinkopf walked to Stone's apartment after the lunch, and Stone was elated with the tenor of the meeting.

Burke says Pitts and Coleman told her that Stone made "at least two loans in six figures to NAN, totaling well over $200,000"?and that they were all "stunned to hear about it" because Stone, she said, "has to know that he'll never get it back." She also recounted how in December, Sharpton personally wrote a $10,000 check for Archer's services that bounced. "We found out the account didn't exist; it was a closed account." The campaign and NAN, which she calls "a shell," were in such disarray that "the only way we were staying afloat was through other sources that might not be legal, Republican sources."

But he only submitted 21 states, and at least one, Illinois, is unlikely to be certified, since it came in at $5,100 and contains two $250 contributions from the same individual. Only single contributions of up to $250 can count toward the threshold. That means Sharpton's funding?against which he has already taken a $150,000 bank loan?is the lifeblood of the campaign. Stone and Halloran allies, including staffers Johnson and Ruffin, kicked in the last four $250 contributions in D.C., all on December 30 and 31, that gave Sharpton a perilous $5,332 total.

In Florida, Stone's wife, Nydia; son Scott; daughter-in-law Laurie; mother-in-law Olga Bertran; executive assistant Dianne Thorne; Tim Suereth, who lives with Thorne; and Halloran's mother, Jane Stone (unrelated to Roger, he says), pushed Sharpton comfortably over the threshold, donating $250 apiece in December. Jeanmarie Ferrara, who works at a Miami public relations firm that joined Stone in the '90s fight on behalf of the sugar industry against a tax to resuscitate the Everglades, also gave $250, as did the wife of the firm's name partner, Ray Casas. Another lobbyist, Eli Feinberg, a Republican giver appointed to a top position by the Republican state insurance commissioner, did $250.

In fact, the treasurer of the Klayman campaign, Paul Jensen, a top Bush administration transportation official, joined his wife, Pamela, in making $250 donations on December 30 to Sharpton, helping get him over the threshold in a third state. Jensen contributed to Sharpton, who favors a federal law certifying civil unions for homosexuals, even though the lawyer has filed suits in 16 states seeking to defrock Presbyterian ministers who've "violated their vows" by ordaining gays. Stone has been in frequent touch with Jensen and Klayman in recent months and said that he might have "told Halloran to call him for a check" or asked himself, as he indicated he might have with many others on this list of anomalies.

 

[heartsurgeon]

the final nail in the coffin of Al Gore..

his Vice-presidential nominee shot down in flames....
The candidate he endorsed...flaming out..

Algore is politically is a Dead Man Walking..He now has absolutely no future in the Democrat Party....

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: heartsurgeon
the final nail in the coffin of Al Gore..

his Vice-presidential nominee shot down in flames....
The candidate he endorsed...flaming out..

Algore is politically is a Dead Man Walking..He now has absolutely no future in the Democrat Party....

He's got that act down!