DODD: KEEP WIFE OUT OF IT

NY Post ^

[Gomez]

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who is likely next year to face the first real election battle of his 30-year Senate career, lashed out against media reports suggesting that his wife's lucrative positions on the boards of four health-care companies could be inappropriate. "It's offensive to my wife that you'd be even talking about it," Dodd complained on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday. Dodd, who is a key player in President Obama's health-care reform efforts, said there is "no reason" for his wife to step down and claimed she is a victim of sexism. "We don't hear these questions being raised about the male spouses of female senators," Dodd said. Jackie Clegg Dodd earned more than $344,000 in salary and options last year, according to publicly available documents. Sen. Dodd said the couple had previously hired an ethics lawyer "to make sure that these boards she serves on would in no way pose any kind of conflict whatsoever with my job in the Senate."

[ridesthemiles]

What ever happened to ‘arm’s length transactions’ ????

[Psycho_Bunny]

Well...OK....I’m sure it’s all good then.

[the invisib1e hand]

Ask Angel Mozillo.

Dodd is THE poster boy for what has been wrong with government. And now his wife, too.

[ClearCase_guy]

I forget — has Dodd been a vocal supporter of Sarah Palin? Has he expressed outrage over the mud thrown at the Palin family? No? He’s a Democrat? Oh, nevermind ...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Any little hint of conflict of interest on behalf of the GOP, however, will never be tolerated!

Earth to Rats: We don’t give a hoot whether it’s a wife or a husband or a brother in law or a “gay” partner. It’s wrong. Besides aren’t you the sexual equality folks?

[shalom aleichem]

Just because he kept his wife out of the waitress sandwich with Teddy K doesn’t mean his family is off limits. Ask Sarah Palin.

[ridesthemiles]

Was Dodd the senator who got preferential VIP treatment with loans from CountryWide???
Doesn’t seem as tho they needed it, with wifey’s income...for exactly how many hours of work a year?

What about a conflict of interest charge? How can she act on the boards of 4 different groups without some sort of conflict of interest?

When I was a self-employed bookkeeper, I didn’t take multiple clients who were in the same kind of business. It just felt like a conflict of interest.

[LibLieSlayer]

Tuff doddd... she is part of your organized crime syndicate.

LLS

[HiTech RedNeck]

Heck, even NOW is incensed over the Palin mud. This guy is a sexist ass.

[ridesthemiles]

What ever happened to ‘arm’s length transactions’ ????

[lonestar]

Let Dodd go cry on Sarah Palin’s shoulder!

[Nick Danger]

What now? Did A-Rod knock her up, too?

[dforest]

Must be another thing he has in common with Bernie Madoff.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I can understand problems with multiple board membership and certainly with multiple legal representation, but how is bookkeeping compromised?

[bushfamfan]

Demonrats always think laws are for the ‘little people’. They are the true elitist snobs who will not abide by laws and rules they apply to everyone else. The new royalty needs to be overthrown.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It will be overthrown when the average American can no longer stomach it.

[savedbygrace]

Sen. Dodd said the couple had previously hired an ethics lawyer

Ethics lawyer = oxymoron

[raybbr]

"We don't hear these questions being raised about the male spouses of female senators," Dodd said.

Hey, toad! Ever hear about Pelosi's husband? Or Feinstein's?

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[Diogenesis]

Sounds like Dodd KNOWS his wife is spot in the middle
of healthcare and other kickbacks.

AIG chiefs pressed to donate to Dodd
As Democrats prepared to take control of Congress after the 2006 elections,
a top boss at the insurance giant American International Group Inc. told colleagues that Sen. Christopher J. Dodd
was seeking re-election donations and he implored company executives and their spouses to give.
The message in the Nov. 17, 2006, e-mail from Joseph Cassano, AIG Financial Products chief executive, was unmistakable:
Mr. Dodd was "next in line" to be chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which oversees the insurance industry,
and he would "have the opportunity to set the committee's agenda on issues critical to the financial services industry.