Wasn't Dodd's father an elected officeholder in CT too?
Maybe even a disgraced officeholder?
Dodd's father was a senator and a drunk. Just like his son. I also think there was a scandal but can't remember.
Governor of CT. Not really disgraced though.
Thomas Dodd was censured, I THINK, by the Senate for something or other.
Yes, he was censured by the Senate for reasons I cannot remember.
I'm with the others ... Chris Dodd's father was a Sen from Ct who was censured but for God knows what ... my memory, such as it is, is that he was one of the original opinionated conservatives in the early-to-mid 60s
found this little gem at caucus.org about the older Sen. Dodd:
"I had a sense of deja vu. I'd been a designated hitter myself some thirty years ago on the very same subject before another Senatorial Judiciary Committee, this one chaired by Thomas H. Dodd of Connecticut. Dodd, a former FBI agent and Nuremberg prosecutor, was later to be censured for conduct which brought "dishonor and disrepute" on the Senate for cheating on expense accounts and pocketing campaign funds.
"Senator Dodd, under pressure, suddenly terminated his television investigation into sex and violence, with no explanation, despite the committee's early findings that violence on television had a damaging impact on young people and that these elements had been ordered into Network TV by NBC's President Robert E. Kintner.
"The Senate Ethics Committee censured Dodd for his expense accounting, but many in Washington believed Dodd should have been censured for the larger crime of submitting to network executive pressure to curtail his investigation."