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Fellow Senators Clear Dodd In Mortgage Scandal

By ray | Published: August 8, 2009
Dodd’s fellow Senators on the ethics committee of cleared my favorite Senator of breaking the rules. He didn’t do anything they wouldn’t do. They did slap his wrist for using poor judgment in getting caught. The New York Times article on the topic brings up an interesting point at the end: Meanwhile, Representative Darrell Issa of California, [...]
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Dollar Politics

By ray | Published: July 9, 2009
NPR is running a series called Dollar Politics. I’n not sure I could make it through the entire series without losing it completely if the following quote from the staff of my favorite senator is an example: As for Dodd, his spokesman wrote an e-mail: “Campaign contributions do not and never have influenced Senator Dodd’s agenda [...]
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New Blog Launched – Elect Chris Dodd

By ray | Published: June 6, 2009
If I posted here every time I read something about Senator Dodd that ticked me off this blog would become all Dodd all the time. I didn’t want that. So I decided to publish another site that would be all Dodd all the time. So without further ado I’m proud to announce Elect Chris Dodd. It’s [...]
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Following Dodd’s Stories Are Exhausting

By ray | Published: March 20, 2009
The lead for the story on the Hawaii Reporter website was: It’s exhausting trying to follow Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd’s story about how and why a loophole was slipped into last month’s stimulus bill that facilitated the scandalous bonuses at AIG. And it truly is. I can’t say which story is the truth, or if any of [...]
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More Dodd Real Estate Deals

By ray | Published: March 8, 2009
Looks like Senator Dodd has a history of beneficial real estate deals. Not only do the deals seem to fit the “sweetheart” category, but the deals included a convicted of tax and securities fraud. That felon received a pardon that was secured by Dodd. That felon still owed the SEC millions for his violations when [...]
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Memo To Senator Dodd – Please Shut Up

By ray | Published: February 20, 2009
Yesterday there was the story from Planet Money that government officials weren’t even mentioning nationalizing banks because just doing so could send their stock into the toilet. Today there’s the story that bank stocks plummeted after Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the banking committee, said banks my have to be nationalized. The story was headline news, [...]
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Investors Lose – Politicians Win

By ray | Published: February 19, 2009
The Connecticut Post reports that Senator Dodd received $27,500 in campaign contributions from the Stanford Financial Group which was recently accused of ripping off investors to the tune of $8 Billion. Of course, Stanford made sure to spread the money around so Dodd can hardly be singled out. But, since he’s my Senator (well, not “my” [...]
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