HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -Sen. Joe Lieberman is getting some unwelcome attention on the campaign trail.
Followers of perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche have been heckling the three-term incumbent at numerous events.
Three young men who were accused of disrupting a campaign stop in Hartford with an obscenity-tinged serenade on Friday posted bail over the weekend, police said.
Hans Wendlandt, 22, and Michael Kirsch, 25, both of Brookline, Mass., and Jonathan Stewart of Oakland, Calif., were charged with interfering with police, breach of peace and resisting arrest.
Myles Robinson, 23, also of Brookline, Mass., was charged with breach of peace and was released on a promise to appear in court. But he was arrested again on a breach of peace charge Sunday for heckling Lieberman during the Veterans Day parade in Hartford and posted a $25,000 bond, police said.
The young men also are accused of throwing fliers at Lieberman and his supporters while Lieberman campaigned at a Spanish market in Hartford last week.
The four protesters wanted to call attention to their belief that free speech is being suppressed on U.S. campuses, said Barbara Boyd, a spokeswoman for the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – John DeStefano, the Democratic candidate for governor, accused Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell of using the governor’s mansion for fundraising, prompting an investigation.
Rell hosted a campaign meeting Sept. 18 to call for a final push for campaigning and fundraising.
DeStefano called it a fundraiser at the taxpayer-funded building that he said is wrong “for somebody who’s trying to define her candidacy on this unparalleled standard of ethics.”
Rell’s campaign spokesman, Rich Harris, said the allegation is “absolutely baseless.” The event was not a fundraiser, but was a “cheerleading session,” he said.
A few dozen attended the event, which included what several who attended described as an explicit appeal by Rell for supporters to press fundraising efforts, The Hartford Courant reported Sunday. Attendees were not asked to buy tickets or give donations.
Harris acknowledged that two campaign checks were handed in by people who happened to have them at the event.
DeStefano’s campaign questioned the legality of Rell’s event in a memo to Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. The attorney general interpreted it as a whistleblower complaint and sent it Friday to the state auditors.
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