Dodd's Peek-A-Boo Disclosure (A Republican would be behind bars)

WSJ ^ | Feburary 3, 2009 | Editor

[WOBBLY BOB]

No recession for Dodd

http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2008/12/13/opinion/385488.txt

With the 2006-08 election season quickly receding, it’s time to take stock on how Chris Dodd did. To recap: While the housing and lending industries, overseen by the Banking Committee he chairs, were crumbling, Sen. Countrywide took 2007 off to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, eventually moving to Iowa to be closer to the voters he really cared about. Hey, with nearly $17 million in campaign dough, with his Senate pay and expense checks still coming in, and with all the money he’d saved on his mortgages, he could afford it.

The more than $16 million spent bought him 0.04 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses last January, earning him one of the 2,501 delegates to the Iowa Democratic State Convention.

Where did Sen. Dodd get all his campaign cash? Opensecrets.org, which compiles Federal Election Commission data, reports Sen. Dodd was the Senate’s No. 1 recipient of grease from cruise lines; No. 2 from finance and credit companies; No. 3 from hedge funds and savings and loans; No. 4 from accountants, commercial banks, insurance, mortgage bankers and brokers, private equity and investment firms, the real estate industry, and security and investment companies; and No. 5 from lobbyists. (Among the top 5 in all those categories: Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.)

Taxpayers, too, chipped in almost $2 million toward Sen. Dodd’s quixotic campaign. As of Oct. 31, he had $520,831 left over, which in due course he will transfer to his senatorial campaign to give him a fund-raising leg up for his 2010 re-election bid. In between, he has pledged to stay on as Banking Committee chairman in the next Congress. Why not? With all the bailout money the government is giving away to all the industries that give money to him, some of it’s bound to make it into one or more of Sen. Dodd’s pockets.

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“friends of angelo”? what a joke. I wonder what the “boyfriend of barney” discount is?

[apocalypto]

Hillary!

[SparkyBass]

Corruption: It's not a Culture, it's a way of LIFE!

[editor-surveyor]

I could go for a little ‘courtesy,’ say a mill, or so...

[Inwoodian]

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