Nancy DiNardo, chairman of the state Democrats, said this morning she has scheduled a meeting with black sheep (my words, not hers) U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman for this week. But she declined to give any specifics.
“It’s this week. It’s not today,” DiNardo said.
Lieberman, a long-time Democrat and Stamford native, has had an increasingly frosty relationship with his party since losing the 2006 primary to anti-Iraq War candidate Ned Lamont of Greenwich.
Lieberman ran and won the general election as a third party candidate, then used his independence (he labels himself an “independent Democrat”) to back the Republican presidential ticket this year, further infuriating his party with some pretty tough criticism about Democrat Barack Obama.
But the election is over, Obama won, and Lieberman has since indicated he regrets some of the stuff he said about the President-elect and wants to try and mend some fences with the state party.
In an interview last week during a stop in Norwalk Lieberman told me he had reached out to DiNardo to meet this week, and she confirmed at the time talks were occuring but nothing had been finalized.
Asked if she will alert the media once the meeting has occurred, DiNardo said “I imagine I will be making a statement. I don’t know what his plans are.”
