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Richard Blumenthal to run for Christopher Dodd’s Senate seat
www.bostonherald.com ^ | Wednesday, January 6, 2010 | Associated Press

Posted on 01/06/2010 5:24:30 AM PST by GOPsterinMA

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he will seek to succeed fellow Democrat Christopher Dodd in the U.S. Senate.

Blumenthal tells The Associated Press that he will announce his candidacy at noon Wednesday at Democratic headquarters in Hartford.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010; 2010election; 2010midterms; blumenthal; corruption; ct2010; democrats; dodd; elections; ussenate
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To: GOPsterinMA

Dodd’s made all the money in bribes he cares to make, he’s totally free now to be corrupted for his final votes; that’s the signal he’s sending. And the Dems have his seat covered. This is Rahm’s strategy to insulate the Dems from the consequences of voting for health care.


101 posted on 01/07/2010 5:24:58 AM PST by browniexyz
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To: browniexyz

Sounds like a very real scenario to me. Sad, what’s happened to our country...


102 posted on 01/07/2010 5:44:54 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (Never bring a snowball to a gun fight.)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

That was interesting. Can the AG just decide you don’t deserve a bonus and jerk it from you?


103 posted on 01/07/2010 5:56:38 AM PST by linn37 ( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: hoosiermama

I will post a new thread and ping you.


104 posted on 01/07/2010 5:58:50 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Great FR mail coming.....


105 posted on 01/07/2010 6:09:31 AM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: maggief
Cynthia Blumenthal is the daughter of Peter Malkin, a Greenwich real estate mogul who heads the investor group that owns the Empire State Building...

"Red and yellow lights shone from the top of the Empire State Building at dusk Wednesday, a tribute to communist China's 60th anniversary that protesters labeled "blatant approval" of totalitarianism and criticized as inappropriate for an icon in the land of the free."

Empire State Building lit for China, drawing ire

106 posted on 01/07/2010 6:31:11 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge; GOPsterinMA; nutmeg; hoosiermama; Liz; STARWISE; onyx

GREAT post!


107 posted on 01/07/2010 6:41:13 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Thanks, glad to add my speck of sand to your mountain of fabulous research...:-)


108 posted on 01/07/2010 6:48:15 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge; maggief

That’s right! Excellent and I recall the ESB was also lit in Muslim colors one year too which caused a lot of grief.


109 posted on 01/07/2010 7:39:30 AM PST by onyx
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To: maggief; Madame Dufarge; GOPsterinMA; nutmeg; hoosiermama; Liz; onyx

Articles about the Malkins, Leona Helmsley and the Empire State Building

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/m/peter_l_malkin/index.html

Link only .. Anthony, Peter Malkin and the ESBuilding financing

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aeGujB_iyCek

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Blumenthal, whose bio appears to make him superman, and whose approval rating in CT is 81%, which is astounding for any public official these days, will have to make his policy positions known. He’s not ready to do that quite yet, but that will be a telling barometer of his potential success ... how he straddles fringe New England wacko/conservative issues.

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“Blumenthal said several times that he would not discuss the policy issues, saying that “today is really Chris Dodd’s day’’ and that the issues would be debated during the campaign. He added that he had “never been part of a conversation’’ among Democrats to ask Dodd to drop out of the race and that he never counseled Dodd to avoid seeking re-election.”

http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2010/01/ag-dick-blumenthal-enters-sena.html

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From what I’ve read of him, if he’s truly incorruptible, he’s quite a guy.


110 posted on 01/07/2010 8:28:38 AM PST by STARWISE (.They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: maggief; Madame Dufarge; GOPsterinMA; nutmeg; hoosiermama; Liz; onyx

OK .. I just got to see the Beck/Blumenthal
video about AIG bonuses. That was a very
bad decision on his part, illustrating his
his policies about the law, so color my above
statement with this one:

that was an abominable position for attorney
general and an obvious populist, political
move.


111 posted on 01/07/2010 9:06:49 AM PST by STARWISE (.They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: STARWISE

Yup, he’s a weasel.


112 posted on 01/07/2010 9:17:38 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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