Good News For Corruptocrats!
Chris Dodd, the most corrupt politician in Washington DC, will announce today that he will not run for re-election.
The Fix reported:
Embattled Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd (D) has scheduled a press conference at his home in Connecticut Wednesday at which he is expected to announce he will not seek re-election, according to sources familiar with his plans.
Dodd’s retirement comes after months of speculation about his political future, and amid faltering polling numbers and a growing sense among the Democratic establishment that he could not win a sixth term. It also comes less than 24 hours after Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) announced he would not seek re-election.
State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is widely expected to step into the void filled by Dodd and, at least at first blush, should drastically increase Democrats’ chances of holding the seat.
Dodd will now have more time to spend at his meager Irish cottage.
Dodd bought this cottage is a very shaky deal after Clinton left office.
The Telegraph reported:
Dodd became part owner of the 10-acre Galway property in 1994 along with Missouri businessman William Kessinger, whom Dodd knew through investor Edward R. Downe Jnr, who had pleaded guilty the previous year to insider trading charges. The mortgage was listed as “between $100,001 and $250,000″. Downe was a witness to Kessinger’s purchase.
In 2001, Dodd circumvented the US Justice Department to help get his pal Downe a full pardon on President Bill Clinton’s last day in office. The following year, Dodd bought off Kessinger’s two-thirds share of the “cottage” for, Dodd said, $127,000.
Ever since then, Dodd has continued to list the value of the property as “between $100,001 and $250,000″.
Check out the picture of Dodd’s “cottage” (provided to me by Rennie), where he spends summers and which is looked after during the rest of the year by a caretaker. It’s not exactly the humble tumbledown abode with a leaky thatched roof, a fireplace with peat thrown on it and donkey tethered outside that the Senator might like you to envisage.
The nearby village of Roundstone is a celebrity hangout. When he’s there, the Sunday Times reported in 2007, he’s likely to “rub shoulders with [RTE's] Pat Kenny, Bill Whelan of Riverdance, Lochlann Quinn, the former AIB chairman, and the singer Brian Kennedy”.
Given the Irish property boom, a conservative estimate would be that the house would be worth approaching $1 million, and very possibly much more than that.
The patriots at Dump Dodd deserve some recognition for shining light on this corruptocrat.
January 6th, 2010 | 6:09 am | #1
Happy days aren’t here just yet but by damned they’re coming!!
Schumer, Harry……..aren’t you all getting tired. No one to build waitress sandwiches with since ol’ Ted passed, huh Chris??
January 6th, 2010 | 6:10 am | #2
Old news but accurate. Hello you guys waking up YET.
An ignorant electorate got us where we are now.
January 6th, 2010 | 6:16 am | #3
Calling any senator “The Most Corrupt” is akin to
calling one shark out of a pack “The Hungriest”
January 6th, 2010 | 6:22 am | #4
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January 6th, 2010 | 6:30 am | #6
Conn Dems will just vote in another corrupt Marxist Lawyer for Pope Pelosi’s Church of Evil Empires.
In other words; religious Do-gooder Dems will vote for the same Dodd only with a fresher face.
January 6th, 2010 | 6:37 am | #7
So now they can vote to screw America with impunity.
January 6th, 2010 | 6:39 am | #8
Interesting; Chris Dodd is yet another deeply devout Roman Catholic member of the Party of Abortion and Health-care Death Panels.
It is a good thing this devout Catholic supports Abortion and Death Panels because if he had been caught having an Affair While Republican all hell would have broken lose.
Serving two Masters is working out so divinely for the Catholic Church.
January 6th, 2010 | 6:53 am | #9
He’ll chose not to run because he knows he won’t win. I’ll bet Obama has promised every one of these Dems a BETTER job in his administration if they risk losing their seats by pushing his agenda. Chris Dodd — mortgage Czar…
January 6th, 2010 | 6:56 am | #10
I agree with Paulajay. Obama has a plan for these seats and also if they don’t run for re-election he avoids the embarrassing videos of corrupt democrats that would be run and possibly impact his approval.
January 6th, 2010 | 6:57 am | #11
I don’t know – maybe this is good – but on the other hand, who can explain this?
http://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/7420563413
January 6th, 2010 | 7:13 am | #12
As long as “conservatives” in “blue” states can’t see that flushing out someone as corrupt as Dodd is a good thing there’s no shade of “purple” in those states’ futures.
January 6th, 2010 | 7:23 am | #13
I agree with Paulajay #9…Just look at Tom Daschle. He’s probably inflicted as much…if not MORE…damage by writing the infamous Obama Health Care legislation than any single person alive. And he got to do so behind closed doors, out of public sight and without fear of any negative voter reaction. Even after his tax evasion debacle, Daschle never missed a beat – walked right in the front door of the White House as though he owned the joint.
Dodd will wind up where he can protect his own interests best….and influence whichever Democrat that takes his place.
January 6th, 2010 | 7:24 am | #14
Would that Dodd lose all sooner than later, the con man conned to suffer that burden which he beset upon generations. Those who corrupt an entire Constitutional Republic are a pox.
January 6th, 2010 | 7:26 am | #15
tim: “Obama has a plan for these seats”
Rahm Emanuel has a plan to unravel.
January 6th, 2010 | 7:29 am | #16
[...] Gateway Pundit is still happy to see Dodd go: “Dodd will now have more time to spend at his Irish cottage.” [...]
January 6th, 2010 | 7:32 am | #17
its great dodd the clod is going bye bye but i too have a feeling that the drones in CONN will only vote in another coruptocrat just look at MASS and CALI they never learn they keep voting in the party of abortions and tax and spenders
January 6th, 2010 | 7:32 am | #18
At first blush it would seem the Democrats would actually benefit by Dodd’s decision! He was probably going to get his arse handed to him if he ran again; this way a squeaky clean Dem can run and have a much better chance of winning – and thus saving the seat for the “Ds”.
January 6th, 2010 | 7:39 am | #19
once again, you’re failing to see the forest through the trees. This is the worst thing to happen for the GOP chances in the state. It’s borderline impossible for conservatives to take the state now.
January 6th, 2010 | 7:58 am | #20
I guess quiting helps him save face rather than to go for re-election and be beat like a rented ox.
January 6th, 2010 | 8:00 am | #21
I’d forward this story to Michael Steele……
but he’s too busy dreaming up more ways to NOT win in 2010.
January 6th, 2010 | 8:11 am | #22
once again, you’re failing to see the forest through the trees. This is the worst thing to happen for the GOP chances in the state. It’s borderline impossible for conservatives to take the state now.
That’s why we need really smart people like you, to tell us how stupid we are.
The next election is going to be a referendum on the Dems, the way 2006 and 2008 elections were referendums on the GOP. The electorate tossed the GOP from power, based on the abysmal performance of the party.
I see no reason why the electorate–which leans center-right anyway–would not give the Dems the same treatment as it gave the GOP. The race in Connecticut may have just gotten harder, but not impossible. Apparently you’ve forgotten that the Dems pulled out all the stops in New Jersey, including sending in ACORN, the SEIU, and Obama, and they still lost the governorship.
It’s far too early to have strong opinions. Nobody knows what’s going to happen. Nobody.
January 6th, 2010 | 8:11 am | #23
Democrats establishment is a corrupt institution. Regardless who are the candidates, they are not representing their constituents but their Lord Master George Soros.
January 6th, 2010 | 8:11 am | #24
Yes, this sucks! I was looking forward to Dodd’s concession speech. Instead, the dems will keep it with Blumenthal. Bastards.
January 6th, 2010 | 8:14 am | #25
His plan to wreck the greatest healtchare system on earth and enslave future generations to fund the insane new entitlements the Democrats are creating is done. He can now retire knowing he’s achieved his goal.
The only stone he’s left unturned is making the world infinately less safe by defunding the military to fund his party’s idiotic spending spree. That is undoubtedly the next step if we don’t throw these bums out in November.
January 6th, 2010 | 8:29 am | #26
In order to start taking back seats in Congress the Right needs to start setting things straight in the minds of voters. The usual “blame Bush” should be replaced with “Dems held Congress hostage for the last two years of Bush’s last term”. They need to be held accountable.
This administration thinks that the American people are stupid, they need to keep believing that. Obama’s house of cards is crumbling underneath him.
Like Susan Powter use to say, “Stop the insanity!” That time has come.
January 6th, 2010 | 8:40 am | #27
Hawley –
You may be right but I think Bulmenthal blows it away. Dodd’s poll numbers were absolutely awful and I think Repubs had a better chance running against that.
January 6th, 2010 | 8:50 am | #28
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January 6th, 2010 | 8:58 am | #29
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January 6th, 2010 | 9:18 am | #30
Our fine (sarcasm!) Senator Ben Nelson should be looking in the mirror this morning and seeing the images of Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan lurking over his shoulder. Because my friends, that will be his fate in the very near future.
January 6th, 2010 | 9:23 am | #31
[...] Gateway Pundit is still happy to see Dodd go: “Dodd will now have more time to spend at his Irish cottage.” [...]
January 6th, 2010 | 9:30 am | #32
The Blue Dog Dem.need to kill the Health care bill then go over to the Rep.party that the only way they can stay their job.
January 6th, 2010 | 9:51 am | #33
Just a hint for the why now: The cottage story is a old issue, which didn’t drive his retirement. There is the actual story on bribery related to the Allan Stanford fraud, where Sen. Dodd (as chairman of Senate Banking committee) accepted a lot of “Donations” in money and other gift as other polititions like Rep. Pete Sessions did.
As DoJ already started (congress probably will do in the future) an investigation on these guys, they got recommendation to retire, to reduce damage to their party on next elections.
Looks that the “Carribean caucus” gets obsolete as Allan Stanford did. The question here is, who pays the bill to the innocent victims of all the former political help to support the alleged fraud. Clearly here taxpayers paid public servants to help alleged fraudsters to rob them their retirement money and now they think simply by political retirement, they can excuse their ethical and moral debt to society. If there are not personal consequences for them, we don’t have to claim that probably a lot of politicians and members of government institutions are corrupt. That will be the common case, if justice and political system don’t take action with signals in the right direction, to bring back society on the right moral track in benefit of our nation and future generations. Probably some politicians have forgotten the content of our constitution.
January 6th, 2010 | 10:18 am | #34
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January 6th, 2010 | 11:12 am | #35
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January 6th, 2010 | 11:20 am | #36
No brainer for Dodd. Don’t assume a big time Dem will step up. Another problem the Dems are having that is under the radar is many of their potential candidates are dropping out. The AG in CT may pass on the race. It all depends on what happens in MA. A big showing by Brown may scare the Dems in CT. This will not be the last retirement. Let me know when Lincoln (AR) retires.
January 6th, 2010 | 11:24 am | #37
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January 6th, 2010 | 1:23 pm | #38
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he’ll be crying all the way to the bank
(Swiss & offshore accounts of course)..
“Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2009
[#1 Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 "Ten Most Corrupt" list for his corrupt relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial, a scandal which still dogs him. In 2009, the scandals kept coming for the Connecticut Democrat. In 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Senate ethics complaint against Dodd for undervaluing a property he owns in Ireland on his Senate Financial Disclosure forms. Judicial Watch's complaint forced Dodd to amend the forms. However, press reports suggest the property to this day remains undervalued. Judicial Watch also alleges in the complaint that Dodd obtained a sweetheart deal for the property in exchange for his assistance in obtaining a presidential pardon (during the Clinton administration) and other favors for a long-time friend and business associate. The false financial disclosure forms were part of the cover-up. Dodd remains the head the Senate Banking Committee.]
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January 6th, 2010 | 2:10 pm | #39
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January 6th, 2010 | 3:21 pm | #40
Corrupt Democrat Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon To Resign
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/01/corrupt-democrat-baltimore-mayor-sheila-dixon-to-resign.html
January 6th, 2010 | 5:04 pm | #41
Call me crazy but does anyone else think that 36 years would have been a bit too much for Americato handle!!! Term Limits Folks!!! The thought of 36 years of any elected official makes me want to puke!
January 7th, 2010 | 12:36 am | #42
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CJ @ 5:04 pm #41
Amen..
however, we may be terminated (so to speak) before then..
ht to Michelle in a previous post for the link..
Universal Voter Registration
[Many are puzzled that Democrats persist in ramming unpopular and destructive legislation down our collective throats while seemingly unconcerned by their plummeting poll numbers. A widespread belief is that the Democrats are committing political suicide and will be swept from one or both houses of Congress with unprecedented electoral losses next November. But since Democrat politicians rarely do things that will not ultimately benefit themselves, this column asked two weeks ago: "what do they know that we don't?"
We may have found out. It's called universal voter registration.
[..]
‘In January, Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank will propose universal voter registration. What is universal voter registration? It means all of the state laws on elections will be overriden by a federal mandate. The feds will tell the states: ‘take everyone on every list of welfare that you have, take everyone on every list of unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of property owners, take everyone on every list of driver’s license holders and register them to vote regardless of whether they want to be…’]
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January 12th, 2010 | 8:35 am | #43
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