Posted on 04/17/2009 8:09:15 PM PDT by zaphod3000
U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd appears to have looked everywhere but his home state to fuel what pundits anticipate will be one of the most hotly contested races in the nation in 2010.
The five-term incumbent reported raising just $4,250 from five Connecticut residents during the first three months of the year while raking in $604,745 from nearly 400 individuals living outside the state.
While incumbents often turn to special interests for early campaign fundraising, Dodd's out-of-state total seems unusually high and comes at a time when he has been plagued by poor approval ratings among state voters.
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Overall, Dodd's campaign reported ending the first quarter of 2009 with nearly $1.4 million cash on hand, according to campaign finance documents filed Wednesday.
The $1.4 million gives Dodd a leg up on a growing field of potential Republican challengers who have yet to file financial reports on their campaign fundraising efforts.
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Dodd's job approval rating -- as measured by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute -- sank to a historic low of 33 percent last month in the wake of the AIG bonus scandal. Many voters surveyed blamed Dodd, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, for allowing taxpayer money to be handed out as bonuses to the AIG executives.
We have all contributed to Dodd ,,,indirectly!
BTTT
33%? How did he score that high? If this guy had any shame or honor, he’d drop out or better, resign now.
Yar and feathers. Tar and feathers. Rail service out of town.
No, you can’t be slandering Dodd! Dodd rhymes with god, and it is his holy word that Speaker Pelosi relates to the unclean masses!
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I don’t know what Yar is but if it sticks, use it.
Five? I can’t believe it’s that many.
Dodd has no worries. Zero will redirect some funds (millions) through ACORN to him. Representation? What a joke.
Please God, let this be the first of hundreds of incumbents that are going back to private life in disgrace.
All you need to know about typical liberal criminals like Dodd: they are devoted employees of out of state special interests, not the idiot voters who are conned into voting for them.
$4,250 five Connecticut residents
$604,745 from nearly 400 individuals living outside the state
ABout 30 years too late.
Scumbag Dodd will easily win by 52% to 47%.
Bet on it.
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And Tasha Yar
She could stick, but not to Dodd.
Probably, but I’d love to see him get flushed out of the bowl.
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Five.
Bwahhahahahahaha!
Shouldn’t out of state money be illegal in all congressional races? Be interesting to know exactly where the 600 grand came from.
From the article:
(Dodd) took in $90,795 from Massachusetts residents, $81,550 from Texas, $56,150 from Maryland, and $53,400 from New York.
Dodd also collected $437,407 from political action committees, including two based in Connecticut that contributed $7,000. He took in $2,271 from individuals contributing less than $200 each.
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