The Nail in Big Oil Joe's Coffin

[Larkspur]

from Lamontblog(unofficial - not the campaign's web site)
http://lamontblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/nail-in-big-oil-joes-coffin.html

From the beginning of this campaign, in desperate need of anything to convince Democratic voters that he is in fact a Democrat, Sen. Lieberman has pushed his stance on the environment as the single most important of his progressive bona-fides. (In his excellent interview with Jonathan Singer, Ned made sure to point out his disappointment with the senator's changing stance).

But it's tough for the senator to pull this off when he was the only New England Democrat to vote for the Cheney energy bill in 2005.

And it's even tougher when, at the very same time the energy bill was being debated in the senate, Lieberman Communications Director Matt Gobush left his job...

to become "Manager of Executive Communications"...

for Exxon Mobil.

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It was quite fortutitous that on the day ExxonMobil hired a controversial Republican official who had basically done their bidding in the White House, they would have also had a "Democratic" hire ready to go, with whom they could counter charges of corrpution:

ExxonMobil defended its hiring of Cooney by stating that they hire from both sides of the aisle. In a written statement to Democracy Now! The company wrote that "ExxonMobil hired Mr. Cooney at about the same time we hired Matt Gobush, who was the Communications Director for Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman. We have always hired highly qualified people for their talent--not their politics."

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Appears that Joe Lieberman is Ned Lamont's best campaigner. We always knew that the more Lieberman had to campaign the worse off it would be for Lieberman. That's why Joe didn't want a primary battle. He doesn't want to face his dubious past and present.