Steve Clemons at TPM Cafe has the story…

I just got off the phone with George Jepsen, who was the Immediate Past Chairman of the Democratic Party of Connecticut and the current State Senate Majority Leader.

When we spoke, Jepsen was driving to Democratic Party headquarters where he planned to formally announce his endorsement of Senate Democratic contender Ned Lamont over incumbent Joseph Lieberman.

This is big news for Lamont. The backbone of any successful campaign, especially one of this nature is a strong infrastructure that helps validate the candidate and the campaign. This endorsement will do just that. Sen. Lieberman paints Ned Lamont as an anti-war, one issue candidate. Having people from the CT Democratic establishment will help dispel this notion and will therefore weaken Lieberman’s main talking points. This race is heating up and DoubleSpeak will follow every in, out and what-have-you.

Polling Update from Political Wire

Stay tuned…