It’s All About The Connecticut Voters…
Both campaigns released the amount of money raised in May and June late last week, per Federal Elections Commission guidelines. Yesterday Lamont’s, which is not accepting money from Washington lobbyists, provided a spreadsheet of the names, addresses and occupations of the people who contributed a total of $1.9 million to the Greenwich cable executive’s campaign. Seventy percent of them do not live in Connecticut.
[Barbra] Streisand is one of the celebrities who gave $1,000. The entertainer was joined by talk-show host Rosie O’Donnell, “All In the Family” producer Norman Lear, Rock n’ Roll Hall of Famer Jackson Browne and film director Richard Donner.
Actor Paul Newman, a Westport resident, topped those donations with a $2,100 contribution.
Former “Baywatch” actress Alexandra Paul, whose Web site features her career highlights and her social activism, including demonstrating against the Iraq war, gave Lamont $250.
Wow, and all those people just moved to Connecticut!…
So what? Seems like a non-story to me. The blogosphere has changed things, if not for the majority of the population, then at least for a vocal few.
…or at least a vocal few nutcases.