@SquareRoot that NY Post article connecting Lamont to radical left antisemitic democrats is absurd.
“This from an article in The New York Post:
“Lamont was an early example of a candidate backed by the party’s left fringe…
In the nearly years since, that fringe has become
the dominant power in national Democratic politics.
Open anti-Semites like Representatives Ilhan Omar, Jamaal Bowman
and Rashida Tlaib spray vitriol in public as their Squad-mates cheer them on…”
@CTLawyer – (except for we’re only 3.5 million people) you’re 💯% correct on the Liberman-Lamont race.
That was 2006. The radical left fringe youth of today wasn’t old enough to vote yet.
Lamont beat Lieberman in the primary not because Lamont was an extreme leftist but because Liberman Z”L had moved so far right of the democratic party at the time. Liberman supported the Iraq war, became a neo-con hawk which was the main position democrats of that time opposed, and supported the Bush administration in a very anti-Bush administration state. To us in Connecticut at the time he was indistinguishable from a republican.
Lamont is a moderate democrat and has been a strong friend of the Connecticut Jewish community and Israel.
He visited a Connecticut Jewish day school on October 10th 2023.
After the Pittsburg synagogue shooting he attended a vigil at a Connecticut JCC.
“In 2022, Lamont became the first Connecticut governor in 25 years – and the first U.S. governor in two – to send a diplomatic mission to Israel to support business ties between the country and Connecticut.”
“Feb 18, 2022
Jewish Federation of Western Connecticut
Governor Ned Lamont’s Trip to Israel
“…I thanked Governor Lamont for holding a press conference with Connecticut’s Jewish Federations announcing his support for our statewide “Shine a Light on Antisemitism” campaign. I also thanked him for issuing an Official Statement in support of that campaign endorsing the IHRA definition of Antisemitism which helps make it clear that certain kinds of criticism attacking Israel can cross the line into Antisemitism.”
From 3 months ago.
“NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Protestors briefly took over a Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce breakfast to criticize Gov. Ned Lamont for being the first Connecticut governor in years to go on a trade mission to Israel.
Lamont said they have the right to protest.
Nobody’s going to listen to them unless they lead off with the fact that they acknowledge and condemn the brutal and sadistic genocidal attack on October 7th, and what that did to all those young innocents there, as well,” Lamont said.”
He is not busy waffling on his positions pandering for votes like Biden and Schumer.
I have seen nothing but strong support for the Jewish community and Israel from him.