{"id":1870,"date":"2003-12-24T23:44:36","date_gmt":"2003-12-25T03:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/24\/lieberman-vows-to-save-esl-jobs\/"},"modified":"2003-12-24T23:44:36","modified_gmt":"2003-12-25T03:44:36","slug":"lieberman-vows-to-save-esl-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/24\/lieberman-vows-to-save-esl-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman Vows to Save ESL Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2118'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"621\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/leib2.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"402\"><br \/>\n      <em>In this<br \/>\n        exclusive photo by Dave Winer, Sen. Lieberman warily eyes the Dowbrigade,<br \/>\n        as your intrepid reporter, pen in one hand and beer in the other, grills<br \/>\n        him on the issues<br \/>\n      of the day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview at a bar in Manchester, New Hampshire, where<br \/>\n        he has now taken an apartment, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut discussed<br \/>\n        his move, his reasons for declining to campaign in Iowa, and his position<br \/>\n        on the devastation currently affecting educational programs geared to<br \/>\n        foreign students. The Dowbrigade caught up to the candidate after a long<br \/>\n        day on the campaign trail, on<br \/>\n        the 4th<br \/>\n        day<br \/>\n        of Chanukah,<br \/>\n        in<br \/>\n        an establishment<br \/>\n        called<br \/>\n        P.J. O&#8217;Toole&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lieberman was astonishingly easy to approach. Basically, all the<br \/>\n        Dowbrigade had to do was sit down on the unoccupied bar stool to his<br \/>\n        left. The candidate immediately offered his hand and introduced himself.<br \/>\n        He asked where we were from and what we did for a living. He seemed genuinely<br \/>\n        interested, and was remarkably easy to talk to.<\/p>\n<p>When he heard that the Dowbrigade is about to lose his job at Boston<br \/>\n        University due to the difficulties of foreign university students in<br \/>\n        obtaining visas to study in the US post 9\/11, Lieberman said, &quot;I will<br \/>\n        definitely do something about that after I am elected. The immigration<br \/>\n        authority<br \/>\n        in this country is in a shambles.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>When asked why he chose to eschew the Iowa caucuses and instead move<br \/>\n        into New Hampshire full-time, he mentioned he is not spending all his<br \/>\n        time in NH. Iowa, he said, was shaping up as a showdown between Dean<br \/>\n        and Gephart, and he preferred to stay out of it.&nbsp; He mentioned that<br \/>\n        9 other states, including NH, would be decided within a few weeks at<br \/>\n        the end of January and the beginning of February, and he preferred to<br \/>\n        invest his efforts there.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lieberman was noncommittal when asked how long he planned to maintain<br \/>\n        his residence after the January 27th primary. &quot;We&#8217;ll see,&quot; he said, with<br \/>\n    a twinkle in his eye.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this exclusive photo by Dave Winer, Sen. Lieberman warily eyes the Dowbrigade, as your intrepid reporter, pen in one hand and beer in the other, grills him on the issues of the day. 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