Republican Jack Kemp to campaign for Lieberman

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By JENNIFER MEDINA
NEW LONDON, Conn., Aug. 29 — Senator Joseph I. Lieberman picked up an endorsement from a prominent Republican on Tuesday, but he also lost the backing of a Democratic colleague who just weeks ago had said he was supporting the senator.

The Republican is Jack Kemp, his party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1996, who has agreed to campaign with Mr. Lieberman as the senator runs for re-election on his own party line, Connecticut for Lieberman, against Ned Lamont, the Democratic nominee.

The Democrat is Senator Daniel K. Inouye, of Hawaii, who campaigned for Mr. Lieberman last month but said on Tuesday that he would no longer support Mr. Lieberman’s bid.

Mr. Lieberman called Mr. Kemp “a good friend,” and said that Mr. Kemp called a few days after the primary offering to help — joking that the offer was to speak “for or against” him, whichever would be of more help.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/nyregion/30lieberman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print