Posted on 05/16/2009 4:47:12 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Caucus: Two Groups Plan Dodd Protest May 16, 2009 Two groups critical of U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd are planning protests today.
Members of Dump Chris Dodd will gather at Griffin Hospital in Derby at 10:30 a.m. Dodd, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd District, and Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, are to appear at the hospital to discuss health care reform.
A separate anti-Dodd group, Connecticut Resistance, will hold a rally outside Dodd's Hartford office on Lewis Street around noon.
Members of Dump Chris Dodd will gather at Griffin Hospital in Derby at 10:30 a.m. Dodd, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd District, and Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, are to appear at the hospital to discuss health care reform.
A separate anti-Dodd group, Connecticut Resistance, will hold a rally outside Dodd's Hartford office on Lewis Street around noon.
Come one, Come All!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245252/posts
Original Posts advertising these rallies several weeks ago
The Chris Dodd reclamation project is in full swing, but even Dodd admits it’s an iffy proposition.
Facing all-time low approval ratings as he heads into the 2010 election, Sen. Dodd (D-Conn.) is reinventing himself to the voters he’s represented for almost 30 years.
The old Chris Dodd would have been on all the cable news and Sunday morning talk shows and shaking hands at glitzy D.C. events. The new Chris Dodd is doing more local events, keeping a low national profile and hoping that he has enough time to recover before Election Day.
But he also candidly admits it could be too little, too late. He acknowledges he’s been beaten down pretty hard, and while others say the party is rallying around him, Dodd said he hasn’t made significant progress yet with Connecticut’s voters.
“How’s it going?” he asks himself. “It’s marginally better. I don’t know, but my sense is there’s been no quantum leap, I can tell you. And I don’t need a poll or a survey. I’ve been around long enough.”
In a town of platitudes, Dodd’s realism sounds more like pessimism. But it’s hard to blame him.
Six weeks ago, a Quinnipiac poll showed the Banking Committee chairman with 33 percent approval, 58 percent disapproval and a 16-point deficit in a match-up with former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.).
The poll came in the immediate aftermath of a flap over a provision of the federal bailout, authored by Dodd, that allowed bailed-out AIG executives to collect bonuses.
Prior to that, Dodd burned bridges by moving his family to Iowa during an ill-fated 2008 presidential campaign and was discovered to have a special mortgage deal from Countrywide Financial. He has also been forced to answer questions about a cottage he bought in Ireland at what appeared to be a bargain price.
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Good Luck and a BIG THANKS from the rest of us !!
Wow! Good for you!!! I wish I could go but have to work today. Good luck and thanks for doing this!!!
Wow! Good for you!!! I wish I could go but have to work today. Good luck and thanks for doing this!!!
Good luck Race, I can’t come out to play : (
are the folks in CT getting signatures to change their sham homosexual marriage what was pushed on them?
Any updates would be welcome thanks
Job well done today!
A good size turnout to the one in Hartford. Have to find out how Derby did.
had a great time!
Going to upload pics before the night is out, ready in the AM
Good. Wish I wasn’t 2500 miles away so I could attend.
uploading pictures as I speak
videos to be finished some time later
signatures do not matter anymore
our courts make the laws, not our legislators
There were about thirty (30) demonstrators actively picketing Dodd's arrival. Twenty-five (25) Dump Dodders attended the town hall meeting held in the Griffin Hospital cafeteria. About 250 people all together......we had 10% of the crowd. Three from our group spoke. Videos on You tube Sunday, May 17.
Our yard signs were the hot ticket of the day.
Dodd being Dodd.....eeeewww
I like it that she is wearing a DUMP DODD T-Shirt! LOL!
CT Attorney General Blumenthal does not realize he is surrounded by Dump Dodd protesters.
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