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Dodd’s Mortgage Loan

Monday, August 3, 2009

If you need any more evidence that one Merrick Alpert is in the business of pushing right wing memes against Chris Dodd, look no further than this morning’s Day, where he is quoted on Dodd’s mortgage refinance: And among the Democrats, the senator’s upstart primary challenger, Merrick Alpert of Mystic, slammed the “sweetheart deal,” calling […]

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Dodd Speaks at GTDC Fundraiser

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Chris Dodd came to Groton yesterday, to speak at a Town Committee fundraiser. I took a number of pictures, which you can view at the link here, or at the link on the upper left on my home page. Since I had the chore of sitting by the door taking money I couldn’t take in […]

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Dodd appearance in Groton on Saturday

Thursday, July 23, 2009

I mentioned this some time ago, but it’s been a while so I’ll repeat myself. The Groton Democratic Town Committee is holding a fundraiser on Saturday, at which Chris Dodd will be the featured speaker. The event will be held at the Mystic Marriot on Route 117 in Groton (Groton gets no respect. Let me […]

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Merrick Alpert doubles his contributions

Saturday, July 18, 2009

In for a dime, in for a dollar. Merrick Alpert donated almost twice as much to his campaign as all his other contributors put together. At least Merrick is putting his money where his mouth is. It’s sometimes forgotten that Merrick isn’t the only Democrat seeking to primary Dodd. According to Opensecrets.org, Roger Pearson has […]

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Heads Simmons Wins, Tails Dodd Loses

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Numerous bloggers on the left have remarked about the fact that the media’s propensity to find that any development, no matter how superficially negative for the Republicans, is actually good news for them. It’s mainly a national media phenomenon, but it does tend to infect local media as well. Consider this from this morning’s Day, […]

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Dodd at the JJB

Thursday, June 4, 2009

CTBob posted Dodd’s JJB speech on youtube, and in the interests of spreading it around, I’m presenting it here:

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More from Dodd on the Banks

Thursday, June 4, 2009

One thing about being the head of the Banking Committee, you can make a lot of noise about things to which a lot of people can relate. Dodd is now warning the banks about gouging people with checking fees: DODD PUTS BANKS ON NOTICE ABOUT EXCESSIVE AND DECEPTIVE CHECKING ACCOUNT FEES WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator […]

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A chance for Dodd to step up

Monday, June 1, 2009

We live in an era in which a sense of shame is for wusses. The banks and their trading partners created a world wide financial crisis, primarily through the use of unregulated financial instruments, such as credit default swaps. In the process they made a lot of money, much of which is up in smoke, […]

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Groton Hearts Dodd, by a slim margin

Friday, May 29, 2009

Yesterday the Groton Democratic Town Committee adopted a resolution I authored supporting Dodd. The vote was close, there being three Merrick Alpert fans on the committee (including Merrick), and a number of people who voted no because they felt it was too early to endorse anyone, though I carefully avoided the word “endorsed” in the […]

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Alpert’s True Colors

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

My Left Nutmeg reports that Merrick Alpert is making the rounds of the right wing media outlets, promising to run a campaign built around trash talking Dodd. I’m going to assume that Merrick is not completely crazy, so there must be some method to this particular type of madness. Here’s my take, for what it’s […]

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