Bloomberg Sends Troops to Help Lieberman

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In his battle for re-election to the United States Senate without the backing of the Democratic Party, Joseph I. Lieberman is deploying a secret weapon in the race’s closing days: a sophisticated operation to identify and turn out voters, courtesy of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

The Bloomberg group includes several top-level operatives who played key roles in the mayor’s decisive re-election last year or who are in the administration, and have taken leaves from their jobs to work on Mr. Lieberman’s campaign.

Since Mr. Lieberman lost the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont, they have helped open campaign offices, devised a strategy to reach voters and are corralling enough volunteers to cover 2,800 shifts at more than 700 polling sites on Election Day, Nov. 7.

Given that Mr. Lieberman does not have a party apparatus to help build his field operation, the efforts of the Bloomberg team could prove critical in one of the most closely watched races in the nation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/28/nyregion/28bloomberg.html?hp&ex=1162008000&en=dc28cb0fe7412f3c&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[williesgirl]

1. All this because LIEberman is not a repuke? BS

[madfloridian]

2. This needs attention. I just posted something here about Lieberman

We need to remember the way he is dividing us.