Ned Lamont: Standing For Our Ideals
by Gwenne Lally
August 2, 2006

Ideals are hard: hard to live with and hard to live up to. That's especially true in today's political climate.

The KDTC's ideals are simple but compelling. We pursue government that is open, honest, capable, and accountable to all our citizens — here in town, in Hartford and in Washington. Difficult as it may be to achieve, it is a goal that we can never lose sight of. If we forget what good leadership should produce, we risk accepting leaders who produce bad results, or no results at all.

That is why we endorsed Ned Lamont for U.S. Senate at the nominating convention and why many of us are actively working to support his campaign.

Ned Lamont is the only candidate for the U.S. Senate who will stand up for the ideals we believe in. Ideals he shares. He believes that the war in Iraq has diverted far too many of our dollars, and too much of our attention, from our needs back home. He believes that Washington needs creative solutions to old problems; that Government has a role in ensuring fundamental rights and equal opportunity for all Americans.

Ned Lamont stands in opposition to the arrogance and self-serving myopia of an administration that saddled us with skyrocketing energy and healthcare costs, rising under-employment, the loss of jobs overseas and a bill for $250 million per day —payable to Iraq.

In contrast, Joe Lieberman sits at the table of that failed administration, as a wholehearted supporter of the Iraq policy and a weapon in their attack on Social Security that would put all our futures in peril. He lay down with the Bush administration again by fighting for their energy bill — a bill that benefited energy interests instead of serving the interests of all Americans.

Now that he faces the challenge of a Democrat who stands for ideals, Joe Lieberman has said that rather than giving his support to the winner of the August 8 primary he will run as an independent — splitting the Democratic vote and possibly giving the Republicans another Senate seat.

That is why we stand with Ned Lamont. Under his leadership we can unite against the negligence of the Bush administration and change the direction of this country. We can pursue the ideals of universal healthcare, reduced dependence on foreign oil, trade agreements that are fair to the American worker, and a just solution that will get our sons and daughters out of Iraq safely.

Please stand up and be counted. Vote for Ned Lamont on August 8th, and again in November.

(Gwenne Lally is Recording Secretary for the KDTC and a member of the Killingworth Board of Finance.)