Ann Lamont, wife of CT Senatorial candidate: "We're not in this to lose."

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Not-So-Hidden Asset, His Wife, Is a Financial Force in Ned Lamont’s Senate Bid
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
Published: October 16, 2006

GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 15 — Over the past two decades, she has made an ample fortune as the impresario behind young companies with big ideas. They count on her for money, market intelligence and moxie. When these high-wire acts soar, she reaps financial rewards. But she is equally adept at staying out of the spotlight, shunning even small indulgences like vanity license plates celebrating the deals.

“We’re not the heroes,” explained Ann Huntress Lamont, modest and tactical in the same breath. “We’re here to support the entrepreneurs.”

Now Ms. Lamont, one of the most successful women ever in the lofty realm of venture capital, is the not-so-hidden hand behind her husband, Ned, the political novice who managed to topple a three-term incumbent in the Democratic primary.

He counts on her for money — the couple has contributed $8.7 million to the campaign — and for message, and even sometimes to manipulate his schedule. If he beats Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, now running as an independent, again in the general election, Ms. Lamont may have to adjust her high-powered career to avoid conflicts of interest and accommodate his commuting to Washington. But in mailings to voters and televised appearances, she is the petite, well-dressed blonde at the rim of the frame.

“I don’t have any desire to be public or famous,” said Ms. Lamont, whom friends nicknamed “the bashful nobody” growing up in Whitefish Bay, Wis. “We’re not in this to lose,” she added. “We’re all very invested in it.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/nyregion/16wife.html

[whistle]

1. The democrats better unplug as many E-vote machines as they can find

...in CT if they don't want Lieberman to win. That is another crooked neocon infested state. Remember the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"?

[dorktv]

2. you know, not every state OR district has electronic voting machines.

Not in my district and my state only has one area with them.

[whistle]

3. Are you from CT?

[JanusAscending]

5. No he's not,.......but I am!

He's right in our case as well. Question answered?????

[dorktv]

10. No I am from AZ, in AZ-5 to be exact.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Hate to break this to you .......

.... CT uses 40+ year old lever machines. The same machines on which I cast my first votes when I was 21 (back in the day when we were old enough to serve but not old enough to vote).

But maybe, for you, they'll get some so you can sing your refrain.

[whistle]

6. Those were the machines that were in Palm Beach County FL in

...the 2000 election which caused the hanging chads and forced the presidential election decision to go to the SCOTUS. Good luck

[Garbo 2004]

8. Actually, the.election wasn't "forced" to the SCOTUS by chads. Bush

didn't want to have the votes counted so Bush appealed to SCOTUS. SCOTUS not only not compelled to hear the case, it shouldn't have heard the case considering that it wasn't jurisdictional to the Court and existing Constitutional law allows for resolution of state elections and disputes that does not include the SCOTUS. Then the SCOTUS rendered a decision that itself noted could not be used as a precedent, acknowledging how bizarre and out of bounds its interference had been.

The idea that hanging chads "forced" the matter to the SCOTUS is an oversimplification of what happened and ignores the fact that, constitutionally, the SCOTUS should never have taken the case. In fact, the Repub State Leg and Governor Jeb were so set on determining the election results that if the SCOTUS had done nothing, they were prepared to ignore the election result if it didn't go their way and choose another set of electors to vote for Bush in the electoral college (based on the fact that the Constitution does not require popular elections to determine the slate of presidential electors for a state). The fix was in in Florida (which is why GW was so sure of the outcome on election night, telling Gore that his brother had assured him things were in hand) and it wasn't really about the chads.

[whistle]

9. Well, SCOTUS was part of the coup de grace of the U.S. constitution

...no wonder they said it would be the one and only time the Supreme Court would render such a decision. It also assured the Bush crime family that the highest court in the land would never allow any of their past or future crimes to be punishable. Thanks for the clarification.

[JanusAscending]

11. UMMMM.........

I don't think so! Our lever machines are not the same as Fla. and their "hanging chads" Those were punch cards, and I believe are all together different!!!

[mark414]

7. she's from whitefolks bay?

heh...strange