Undotted I's and Uncrossed T's

Stick with me... it gets interesting.

Joe Lieberman was the Democrat Senator from the state of Connecticut. Unfortunately, he was a little too far to the right (towards the Republicans) for the Democrat-registered voters in Connecticut, so during the primary this past election, they voted to have a different candidate represent the Democratic party in the upcoming election.

Senator Lieberman, realizing that he had essentially been tossed out of the Democrat party, but still wanting to remain in the senate, decided to create his own political party, called "Connecticut for Lieberman". During the election, he got most of the Republican votes, and a fair amount of Democrat votes, and won reelection easily.

That's the background.

Now, unfortunately, in all the hubbub and rigamarole of the election, Senator Lieberman forgot to do one important thing for his political party: Get some registered members.

So what happened? A college professor named John Orman, who rather dislikes Senator Lieberman's policies — realizing that Connecticut for Lieberman had no members yet registered — went to the local registrar, changed his political affiliation from Democrat to "CFL", called a meeting of its members, set party rules, and voted himself president.

Yes... absolutely allowed.

Now, Senator Lieberman's party is... well, as you can imagine... wondering what they (uh... he) is going to do about his wayward elected official.

The nitty-gritty:

With Connecticut for Lieberman having achieved its victory earlier this month, Orman made his move. He contacted the secretary of the state, learned the new minor party had no registered members, then visited the registrar in Trumbull, where he lives, to switch from a Democrat to a Connecticut for Lieberman-ite."

Then I went home and called a meeting of all registered Connecticut for Lieberman members to reflect on our party's victory in the U.S. Senate race (and) organize and submit rules to the secretary of the state," Orman said.

He nominated himself chairman, seconded the nomination, cast his vote for himself and proceeded to establish party rules.

Orman said the "party" is upset that Lieberman has abandoned it and says he is an "Independent Democrat."

Well, it looks like it isn't a guaranteed thing that Mr. Orman can steal Senator Lieberman's party away from him, but I'll give him credit for giving me a chuckle and drawing some attention to himself. As the British would say, "Nicely played, you cheeky bastard."