Good luck with all that....
Posted on 03/31/2009 10:04:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd is trying to rewrite a developing script that attempts to cast him as a politician too closely entwined with AIG and the beleaguered financial services industry.
But for the Democratic chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, that's been an increasingly difficult task.
Dodd came to Farmington Monday to talk about the Metacomet, Monadnock and Mattabesset hiking trails. But afterward, he faced a flurry of questions about a report that a top AIG executive sent an e-mail to employees in November 2006 urging them make a donation to the senator, who was poised to take over as banking committee chairman as part of the Democratic sweep of Congress that year.
Dodd dismissed the e-mail, which the Washington Times wrote about Monday, as old news. He said he had no idea that American International Group Inc. would be the recipient of a federal bailout. He also said he wasn't aware of the e-mail, but securing money from donors is what politicians have to do.
"I don't like the campaign process ... but it is what it is," said Dodd, a longtime backer of public financing of campaigns.
Former AIG Financial Products CEO Joseph Cassano sent the e-mail to executives at AIG's Wilton-based Financial Products division, according to the Times.
Cassano's e-mail said Dodd was "next in line" to head the banking committee and that he would "have the opportunity to set the committee's agenda on issues critical to the financial services industry," the Times said.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
These people will do and say ANYTHING to get (re)elected.
lol.. but he’s keeping his ‘FRiends of Angelo’ lapel pin.
Culture of Corruption Poster Child
Chris ‘Countrywide’ Dodd
Too late Dodd - you worthless, enept, corrupt and Leftist bastard....
If your electorate can’t smell that stinking corpse around your neck — America is lost.
I was almost encouraged this morning - when I heard the Taliban was threatening a “devastating attack on Washington”......
Dodd, Senator from AIG.
Good luck with all that....
Honest judge, I didn’t steal the cow. I just picked up a piece of rope by the side of the road and brought it home with me. I had no way of knowing that a cow was tied to the other end.
“I was almost encouraged this morning - when I heard the Taliban was threatening a ‘devastating attack on Washington’......”
You too?
I felt/feel the same but didn’t dare admit it until now.
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