Lieberman: With friends like these …

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You might not know that some of Connecticut’s largest unions endorsed Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) on Tuesday night in his primary contest against businessman Ned Lamont. Not with some of the things they said about him.

“I hope that after this is over we can get Joe Lieberman, all of us, even the ones that get along greatly with Joe, and beat the s- - - out of him,” said Ken Delacruz, Metal Trades union, quoted by WTNH, the local ABC affiliate.

And he was a Lieberman supporter. Paul Filson of the Service Employees International Union said Lieberman “supports the worst boss this country has ever had; George Bush.”

“I can go back to 1993 and say Joe Lieberman was not there on trade,” said William Rudis of the International Association of Machinists, quoted by the Hartford Courant. “We don’t need to be in Boston to spill the tea.”

Lieberman’s views, especially on Iraq, “will splatter our banner with the blood of innocent people,” said Bill Shortell, vice president of the Central Connecticut Labor Council......

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1. Here Lamont the person got in the way of Lamont the message

Since Lamont's company was non union he had an impossible task getting a union endorsement.