Connecticut for Lieberman Meeting Minutes
Place: Harbor Room, Howard Johnson's, Milford, CT
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2007
Time: 7:00 p.m.

Agenda:

I.    Dr. John Orman's reasons for starting the Connecticut for Lieberman Party:

Professor John Orman discussed his reasons for the continuation of the CFL party.

These include:

-    using it as a mechanism to keep Senator Joseph Lieberman accountable to the voting public.

Prior to the election, the senator was circulating petitions in an effort to run as an Independent. The election was held, and within 9 hours, he certified over 7,500 petitions. The Secretary of State accepted them. On the petition he circulated he promised to start a new party - the Connecticut for Lieberman Party. This party did not have a chairperson or rules.  

The election results had to be certified, and around Nov. 15th, Prof. Orman approached the Secretary of State, who told him that no one had registered in the party.

Prof. Orman then went home, elected himself party chair, seconded it, and wrote some party rules and circulated it. He sent it to the Secretary of State, who said it had to be an official document, which he then.

- Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz  than officially accepted the CFL party rules.

Prof. Orman noted that prior to the election, the Senator stated that `no one wanted to bring the troops home more than he," The Senator is  now asking for an additional 35,000 troops be sent into Iraq. The Senator has misled the electorate, and Prof. Orman feels that it is important, as an institution, to keep the CFL party alive.

Prof. Orman also wants the state of Connecticut to have an effective `sore loser' law, and if a politician creates a fake party, he must join it.  He also feels Connecticut should move the petition date at least one month before the primary. We have to be a party of electoral reform, and must see that it continues.