This can not be good news for Democrats and their hopes of retaining the Senate. New York Times, Raymond Hernandez reports this afternoon that Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut AG and likely Democratic candidate to fill the seat of Dodd in the Senate, has lied about his service in Vietnam. Although in an earlier video he mentioned that he did not serve in Vietnam.
“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. ”And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”
There was one problem, Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat who is now running for U.S. Senate, never served in Vietnam. Won at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took several measures that allowed it to avoid going to war, according to records.
Blumenthal is presumed to be on the crest of an easy victory over either candidate of the Republican Party, but we’re guessing that is in doubt.
Blumenthal is part of the school activist AGS, having taken the popular struggle against big businesses, and more recently the rating agencies. In January, noted that “Wall Street’s worst nightmare” was now headed to the Senate.
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