Arizona campaigners for Sen. John Kerry’s presidential bid denied that they have tried to use Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s Sabbath observance against him. Three Arizona state legislators who support Lieberman told the Arizona Republic newspaper that Kerry’s Arizona campaign manager and another state legislator urged them to abandon Lieberman because the Jewish Democrat “can’t campaign three days a week.”
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