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Chris Dodd not so lucky on St. Patrick's Day
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Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut) may have been looking for his own pot of gold when he financed a home in Ireland through Countrywide Mortgage and moved his family to Iowa to improve his presidential prospects, but as he gears up for his sixth senatorial election bid in 2010, St. Patrick’s Day is proving to be not so lucky.
Fittingly, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released an animated television ad on this Irish-American holiday to point out that Dodd has lost the trust of his constituents in Connecticut. As the ad states, “Dodd’s numbers are bottoming out like a pint of Guinness.”
“Luck O’ the Dodd,” as the commercial is titled, comes at a time when a Quinnipiac University poll has shown that Dodd and his possible Republican challenger, former Representative Rob Simmons, are neck-and-neck in the next election.
Simmons lost his own Congressional seat in 2006 and has given high hopes to Republicans, who wish to reclaim a number of spots come 2010. The moderate may have an even better chance in the polls now that more of Dodd’s transgressions have been revealed.
Not only has Dodd has come under fire for his “sweetheart mortgage” in Ireland, and moved his family for electoral success, but he has also come under fire today for some hefty campaign donations from failing insurance company AIG.
As Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Rep. Dodd created a provision in the stimulus bill that made an exception for bonus pay—that any bonuses before February 11 of this year would be contractually obligated to executives—known as the “Dodd Amendment.”
Rather convenient for Dodd, who accepted $175,000 in donations from the very company that was taking a big chunk (literally billions) from the taxpayer-funded stimulus. Republicans and constituents alike have been calling for a return of the money to taxpayers or to charity. So far, there is no word that Dodd will return his pot of AIG gold.
Simmons stated in the Connecticut Post that he would make decision on whether or not to run “by the Ides of March.” This St. Patty’s Day, the rainbow seems to be pointing in his direction.
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