Republican-allied firm offers to help Lieberman with website

RAW STORY
Published: Monday August 28, 2006

After difficulties lining up a firm to help his campaign relaunch its website, which crashed days before the Connecticut primary, Senator Joe Lieberman has received an offer of assistance from a Republican Party-allied company, RAW STORY has learned.

An article at Online Media Daily detailed some of Lieberman's travails in finding a new web designer, as many firms that work for Democrats have stated that they are not interested in working for the Connecticut Senator who is now running under his own party banner.

But Eric Porres, the co-founder of Pericles Consulting, LLC, told Online Media Daily "We'd be happy to work with Joe Lieberman." Porres explained further "We always said that we would work for the 'green' party--whomever was interested in parting with some green would be the group that we would work with," and that Republicans had been the first to hire the firm, so Pericles has been identified as Republican ever since.

Public documents show that Pericles Consulting's financial relationship with the Republican Party is significant. Data on campaign contributions at the website Open Secrets shows that Pericles received $54,492 from the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2005 for its services. Most of these funds were expended for "generic data processing."

It is not known if the Lieberman campaign will take up Pericles on its offer of services.

The joe2006.com website currently up for Lieberman's re-election campaign provides basic links on volunteering and contributing financially to the campaign as well as a short video with the Senator explaining why he is still contesting the seat after losing to Ned Lamont in the August 8th primary. It is not clear from the website who designed it.