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Connecticut For Lieberman Party Update

Connecticut for Lieberman, the party that Joe Lieberman formed on August 9th in order to secure himself a sore loser line on the November ballot, has a party chairman: John Orman.

Orman intended to mount a primary challenge to Joe Lieberman, and announced it in July of 2005. Incidentally, he was unable to get his campaign off the ground.

Here is an from Orman’s press release, as posted at My Left Nutmeg:

Press Release November 16, 2006
Orman Elected New Chair of Connecticut for Lieberman Party
I called the Secretary of State’s Office in Connecticut to find out how many people joined the Connecticut for Lieberman Party and I was told that no one had joined, not even Senator Joe Lieberman. I went down to Trumbull town hall and changed my registration to the Connecticut for Lieberman Party. Then I went home and called a meeting of all the registered Connecticut for Lieberman members to reflect on our party’s victory in the U.S. Senate race with Senator Joseph Lieberman. Senator Lieberman did not attend the organizational meeting for Connecticut for Lieberman because he no longer wants to be labeled as a member of the party.
In order for the CFL to keep the great ballot spot that Joe Lieberman earned for us, our party had to organize and submit rules to the Secretary of State of Connecticut. Senator Lieberman did not do this when he ran so there was work to be done like platform and rules.

Click through to read the rules and the minutes from the first meeting.

As a postscript, check out this photo that ConnecticutBob has posted, with a bunch of us Lamont bloggers posing with “Orman for U.S. Senate” stickers–true collector’s items:

Updates via Scarce: A report in the Stamford Advocate and the Connecticut Post.