{"id":8242,"date":"2006-08-18T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T19:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8242.html"},"modified":"2006-08-18T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T19:15:21","slug":"lieberman-staffs-up-with-schumers-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/lieberman-staffs-up-with-schumers-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman staffs up — with Schumer’s help?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Joe Lieberman has lost much of his pre-primary staff — some were fired, some resigned<\/a> — the candidate is filling critical campaign needs. TNR’s Jason Zengerle noted<\/a> today that Lieberman has hired Josh Isay, who “has some Senate campaign experience with Chuck Schumer,” as his new media consultant.<\/p>\n

There’s a bit more to this story. Considering the questions surrounding the party’s commitment to Ned Lamont, the details matter.<\/p>\n

A source on the Hill informs me that Isay not only used to work for Schumer, but was also the senator’s chief of staff — and probably wouldn’t work for Lieberman without first talking to Schumer. Moreover, Isay is business partners with Bill Knapp, who has done media work for the DSCC.<\/p>\n

There’s been a lingering concern for months about whether the party establishment, specifically the DSCC, would respect the Connecticut primary results. Schumer, in particular, hedged<\/a> before Lamont’s victory about whether he and his campaign committee would support Lieberman, even if he abandoned the party to run against the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n

Schumer, to his credit, has endorsed<\/a> Lamont, but questions remain<\/a> as to whether the party is fully committed to a Lamont victory in November. Does Isay’s new role in the Lieberman campaign suggest Schumer is helping the former Dem behind the scenes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that Joe Lieberman has lost much of his pre-primary staff — some were fired, some resigned — the candidate is filling critical campaign needs. TNR’s Jason Zengerle noted today that Lieberman has hired Josh Isay, who “has some Senate campaign experience with Chuck Schumer,” as his new media consultant. There’s a bit more to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}