{"id":179,"date":"2006-08-07T13:21:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T13:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.ruudmedia.com\/gsc\/?p=179"},"modified":"2017-12-06T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:29:45","slug":"south-on-lieberman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/south-on-lieberman\/","title":{"rendered":"South on Lieberman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upside to Steve Westly\u2019s loss in the Democratic gubernatorial primary for political strategist Garry South is that he\u2019s been able to spend more time with his 2-month-old son.<\/p>\n<p>But South hasn\u2019t checked out completely. Besides skewering Angelides\u2019 campaign on blogs, he\u2019s been dishing out free advice to U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.<\/p>\n<p>South was Lieberman\u2019s political adviser during his unsuccessful 2004 presidential bid. Now Lieberman faces a tough challenge from Ned Lamont in Connecticut\u2019s Tuesday primary.<\/p>\n<p>Lamont has won support from Democrats who oppose Lieberman\u2019s backing of the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Lieberman) and I e-mail back and forth quite a bit,\u201d South said. \u201cHe\u2019s got a fair shot in the primary. If not the primary, then he probably wins in the fall as an independent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lamont led by 13 points in a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. If Lieberman runs as an independent, would South work for him in the fall?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI doubt it,\u201d South said. \u201cI\u2019m not really in the campaign business at the moment. I\u2019m in the daddy business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upside to Steve Westly\u2019s loss in the Democratic gubernatorial primary for political strategist Garry South is that he\u2019s been able to spend more time with his 2-month-old son. But South hasn\u2019t checked out completely. Besides skewering Angelides\u2019 campaign on blogs, he\u2019s been dishing out free advice to U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. South was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}