Lieberman just does not care about Connecticut voters, and here’s another reason why.
EDIT: I just saw the whopping 95 seconds that WTNH (the only mainstream media outlet that even bothered to show up today) devoted to this news item. After the Hartford protest, some of the activists managed to track Lieberman down at a school that he was visiting. He gave a non-committal statement on air.
For perspective, WTNH gave more time to a fluff piece on fashion.
Here is the exact transcript as posted on the WTNH website:
Hartford (WTNH) _ Said Zaim-Sassi lost his quest for U.S. citizenship earlier this year, but a group of his supporters insist his case has been mishandled and took their battle all the way to the state capitol.
For the second time in two weeks protestors are working to prevent the deportation of Said Zaim-Sassi back to Morroco.
Sassi lost a final court battle in January and though he told immigration he would surender anytime agents raided his home in the middle of the night earlier this month.
“This needs to stop, especially people who are not criminals, who have done nothing wrong, people that pay their taxes, they shouldn’t be treated like animals,” says one protestor, Aschras Lahnin.
How Sassi was treated is the point of today’s march and protest. He’s been living in the U.S. for 20 years where he’d worked and raised a family while trying to gain citizenship.
The group took the Free Said movement all the way to Constitution Plaza to ask Senator Joe Leiberman for help, but he was scheduled to be at Jumoke Academy. They had no luck downtown, so they followed him.
The senator agreed to look into the case, but says a black mark on Sassi’s record – in regard to marriage fraud – is what’s sending him home.
“The question is whether within the law there’s any element for mercy here,” says Leiberman, “or if immigration service feels he commited a fraud against immrgration by coming and then marrying an American to stay if they have to punish him to make a point.”
I felt compelled to post their entire thing because of the glorious misspellings that’ll be corrected later. See, here’s the thing. I know the name is hard to spell, but there are only two senators in CT, and there’s a total gimme mnemonic device included in remembering how to spell this senator’s name. Yeah, I’m a bitch, but I’m over it.