This pops up just as I was starting to come over to the Lamont side. This does require an explanation. Halliburton has cheated our troops and American taxpayers.

This is crap.  You Lieberman nutjobs are really reaching.  Lamont is a very rich man...he's got tons of stock holdings...I don't know the details but I would have a hard time getting upset about this.  It could be as simple as he owns some mutual funds of which 0.5% is invested in cheneyburton...

This is NOWHERE NEAR as bad as supporting a policy that is causing the daily slaughter of both Americans and Iraqis...not to mention the damage that's being done to our image in the Arab world.

Stop GRASPING AT STRAWS!

OK, you've convinced me. If that's the best the Lieberman Republicans can dig up against him, Lamont must be a SAINT.

Lieberman and the GOP need to first get the several dozen lumberyards out of their own eyes if they expect us to react to motes like this.

I'm mostly staying out of this in terms of overtly backing a candidate, but the general reaction here is amazing and confounding me.

If it were reported that Joe Lieberman owned stock in Halliburton, it would be a front-page diary about how he's just an evil Republican in Dem clothing and we need to come up with $50,000 for the Lamont campaign by the end of the weekend just to combat this latest offense.  There would be 50 comments centered around how investing in Halliburton legitimizes every ill-step conceived by the Bush administration and 50 more bashing the one or two intrepid souls who tried to defend Lieberman by saying that he has little-to-no knowledge of what he has because it's all in a blind trust anyways.

I'm not saying I particularly like Lieberman, nor do I think that this Halliburton thing is necessarily a very big deal, but let's not kid ourselves about how we treat this issue based on preconceived notions about the folks involved.

Oh... oh my god.

I mean, if Lamont owns Halliburton stock... that means he might vote to support the failed Bush-Cheney Iraq policy!!!

LIKE JOE LIEBERMAN.

My head is spinning.

Look, I dont even like Lamont all that much.  If I would vote for him because I really dislike Lieberman, but he doesnt really excite me.  So, what's my point?  Who friggin cares if he has Haliburton stock.  Is he the type of person who would cater his policies toward Haliburton because he owns their stock?  As I said, Im not a huge fan of his, I wish he was more of an economic progressive, but I dont think there is any chance that he would.  If nothing else, Lamont is a very constientious, moral guy.  Unlike his opponent.

Haliburton has like literally 1,000,000,000 shares at $100 a share. They have so much cash that the stock certificates blow down the street on windy days. So yes, it's going to show up in any portfolio.

Let's get this straight - just owning stock in any kind of company is not a scandal in itself. It is clear you are pretty desperate to make Lamont look bad. First things first. So what if he has stock in Halliburton? It's your boy Joe Lieberman that helps Lamont get rich because it is lieberman's support for a useless war that is enriching Halliburton. And as far as Halliburton is concerned, I may be wrong on this , but I don't think their stock is even such a strong performer. I think the execs enrich themselves which gets factored into the cost part of the cost plus small fixed profit formula  and the big losers are usually the taxpayers while the stockholders are really not as big winners as they should be. Cheney made money on salaries, perks, and options probably given to him at artificially low prices. I will have to examine the whole thing to know more about the specifics.

Nothing wrong with wanting to investigate the guy's portfolio. I would like you to check every hard working liberal's mutual funds and examine every single company they are invested in. Companies that employ robber barons as CEOs, employ slave labor abroad, and other various misdeeds.

Having stock in Halliburton, while not desirable, is not a conflict of interest, unless Lamont was already in some defense related position. Lamont was a private citizen. It's not the same as Cheney whose involvement in Halliburton pretty much came down to his using his government service and contacts for profit.  Quite frankly, I recommended some oil companies as good investments to some of my cousins. I just could not pull the trigger on these vile companies. But it would not bother me one bit if a private citizen did so. Lamont has been a private businessmen for a while.

Come on, you gotta do better than that to attack Lamont.

THe fact that he owns stock in Halliburton and still opposes this war shows that he does not care about his personal profit.

You are a piece of work Liebermanlover.

yer guy has abandoned the party and works for the other side. You're going to have to do a lot better than this crap to get past the fact that Joementum works for the Bush/Cheney folks.

So even using the most damning numbers, saying Lamont owns the full $50,000 in Halliburton stock out of a net worth of only $90,000,000, means that only .055% of his total holdings are in Halliburton.

For comparison, I looked up the mutual fund where I keep my IRA and .244% of its holdings are in Halliburton. By the above logic, that makes me about five times worse a person than Ned Lamont!

My calculations indicate that this is represents somewhere between 0.005% and 0.055% of Lamont's fortune.  Let's see...that would be about equivalent to...me buying a cup of coffe at an Exxon station. Does that mean I'm morally bankrupt?

I do think he should dump the stock.  (and yeah, I should get my coffee somewhere else from now on...)

I just couldn't resist!

I don't care if Lamont dates Ann Coulter. Lieberman must go so that the rest of the faithless Senate Dems are terrified into compliance. Lamont doesn't matter. What matters is lining Lieberman up against the electoral wall and pulling the philosophical trigger. I want my party to represent its voters, and that begins by shoving Joementum into the crapper.

He owns 33.4% of Ct Delegates!

This is the problem with the current political system.

I've no problem w/Lamont acidently owning tainted shares. Rich dude like he is, diversification and the risk frontier and yadda yadda yadda, stands to reason if he's got lots of dough he's into bad things.

This being said, this is the problem, in general, with rich people. They don't give a damn, at a visceral, money-making level, how those riches make more riches.

Which is why it's sad that it takes rich Roosevelt/Rockefeller dudes running on their own dime as progressives to actually win as "progressives".

Given the political environment we live in, I s'pose Lamont, like Mark Dayton or John Corzine before him, is a progressive. Rich guy who talks good, has enough money to buy votes and, more importantly, has enough money left over to let industry know they've nothing to be afraid of...

But it won't be until real working class folks rising from the rank and file can actually ascend to power that we will truly get the progressive change we crave.

I'm dearly hoping for a Lamont victory.

But for CT's sake, I sure hope you don't end up with a Mark Dayton.

Is this the best we can do?  A lexus-driving, Haliburton-owning, Greenwich millionaire with no political experience?  I'm just as mad at Joe as the next guy but I can't in good conscience vote for this guy.