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10 unusual facts about Joe Lieberman


Danville, Kentucky

On October 5, 2000, Dick Cheney and Senator Joe Lieberman, candidates for Vice President of the United States, debated at Centre College during the 2000 presidential election.

Foster's Daily Democrat

In the 2004 New Hampshire Democratic primary, the paper endorsed Joe Lieberman, generally considered a more conservative Democrat.

Garry South

South was not officially involved in the 2003 recall campaign against Gray Davis, as he was by then a senior advisor to presidential candidate Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Melissa Winter

She worked for then Congressman Norman Mineta for seven years as his Staff Assistant and then Executive Assistant before working for Senator Joe Lieberman.

Roger Wolfson

Wolfson has also been staff to four U.S. Senators: Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, Paul Wellstone, and Ted Kennedy.

Super Scope

In 1993, in a Congressional hearing on violence in video games, Senator Joe Lieberman said that he thought the Super Scope looked like an Assault Weapon.

Tableau Software

:Our decision to remove the data from our servers came in response to a public request by Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, when he called for organizations hosting WikiLeaks to terminate their relationship with the website.

Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution

A Habitation Clause issue arose during the 2000 presidential election contested by George W. Bush (running-mate Dick Cheney) and Al Gore (running-mate Joe Lieberman), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both.

Will Marshall

He served on the board of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, an organization chaired by Joe Lieberman (I) and John McCain (R) designed to build support for the invasion of Iraq.

William Tong

On March 7, 2009, it was reported that Tong was being considered by a panel assembled by Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman to screen candidates for United States Attorney.


Democratic and liberal support for John McCain in 2008

Joe Lieberman, senator and 2000 Democratic vice-presidential candidate (ID-CT)

Iowa Democratic caucuses, 2004

Joe Lieberman and Al Sharpton did not believe they could get sufficient support in the state and concentrated their efforts on New Hampshire.

Jerry Labriola

In Connecticut's 1994 U.S. Senate election, he ran as the Republican nominee against Democrat Joe Lieberman, losing to the incumbent.

Penny Pritzker

Among the recipients have been the presidential campaigns and exploratory committees, including those of George W. Bush, Joe Lieberman, Bill Bradley, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain (2000), Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton.

Soldiersocks

Former Lieutenant Governor Michael Fedele along with US Senators Joe Lieberman and Scott Brown Scott Brown have lauded the program along with several other elected and business leaders.

Unity08

Liberal bloggers also expressed frustration with Unity08 because they contend that the group promoted "establishment" centrist or center-right politicians in the molds of Joe Lieberman and Michael Bloomberg while at the same time doing little to promote the progressive values it would seemingly represent.

Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay

By December 27, 2009, responding to rumors that Abdulmutallab had confessed to being trained and equipped in Yemen, various American politicians, including Joe Lieberman, Pete Hoekstra, Peter T. King and Bennie Thompson, called for American President Barack Obama to halt plans to repatriate the Yemenis.