Joe Lieberman leaves behind a complex political legacy at age 82, FOX News Correspondent Chad Pergram shares the history of the late Connecticut senator.
As I write this, I’m befuddled as to how to identify the late Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. He died from a fall at age 82 in New York this week. For writing purposes, do I stylize him as 'Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.?' Or do I write 'Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn.?' This subject vexed me for years. It became even more acute after Lieberman departed the Senate in early 2013. I’ve had the opportunity to mention him or write about the late senator in passing.
Voters sent Lieberman to the Senate in 1988 as a Democrat. He defeated late Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn. Ironically, Weicker later became governor of the Nutmeg State – as an independent. Lieberman plowed his own path in the Senate as a Democrat. The statement about Lieberman’s death by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was emblematic of how he frustrated his home party.
Describing him as an 'independent Democrat? That’s close. But he was best cataloged as simply 'Lieberman.' Fox News' Brooke Curto contributed to this report.
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