The Fix at the Washington Post is reporting that crooked-assed Connecticut Democrat Senator Chris “Friend of Angelo” Dodd is going to announce Wednesday that he will not be running for re-election.
Dodd’s crooked-assed “alleged” booze hound father was also run out of the Senate (PDF Link) for being a corrupt POS. The elder Dodd was exposed in the 60s for stealing public funds and putting those funds into his personal accounts. You may remember the younger Dodd from when he famously “allegedly” abused a waitress by making a dry humping sandwich out of her with fellow bloated drunkard Senator Ted Kennedy.
Dodd’s announcement follows a rash of Congressional Democrats jumping ship and announcing retirements, and even a defection to the Republican party.
The Washington Post is slanting the story as good news for the Democrats, speculating that Connecticut’s popular Democrat Attorney General Richard Blumenthal will run in Dodd’s stead and should be a lock to win. Unless Blumenthal comes out against the health care debacle, I wouldn’t be so sure. Beltway insiders like the Post’s Chris Cillizza seem to be operating under the assumption that 2010 won’t be the earth-shifting year it’s shaping up to be. Dodd wasn’t safe. Blumenthal won’t be able to walk in as easily as he and Cillizza think he will, even in Connecticut.
Back to Dodd.
Dodd’s retirement comes roughly two years after his presidential ambitions came to an end in the Iowa caucuses. Dodd, always a longshot in a field filled with better known and better financed candidates, had moved his family to the Hawkeye State in the fall of 2007 in hopes of generating some excitement for his bid. The move backfired on the Democratic incumbent as many Connecticut voters bristled.
Dodd’s political problems were further compounded later in 2008 when it was reported that he had been included in a special VIP mortgage loan program by Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo. Dodd insisted he was unaware of his inclusion and he was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Senate Ethics Committee [imagine that] but the political damage was done.
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