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We're getting lots of comments like these in early April, 2010
| Southington | | Comments: | Please add dump John Larson to this list. He spoke in Southington
and is soo proud & arrogant about the healthcare reform. He is up for re-election and needs to be stopped. How can I help |
| Cromwell | | Comments: | I purchased Dump Dodd buttons and signs and gave them to
friends and family. The first sign purchased went on our cars and lawn. Thank God, that battle has been won. Next, Blumenthal
needs to loss. Where can I get those buttons and Lawn signs. We need to get the force behind getting rid of Larson. His smiling
face behind Obama was to much to handle when the Healthcare Bill passed. Maybe we can have a lawn sign and buttons that say
Loss Larson or something to that effect. We need to get rid of all the politicians that voted YES for this Healthcare Bill!
They are need to be identified............. We live in Cromwell and want to be active and get involved for the conservative
candidates. |
| Naugatuck, CT | | Comments: | Palin,
I got your letter in the mail yesterday. You were responding to my Dump Rosa letter to the editor in the Waterbury paper.
You asked if I could help, but I couldn't find any contact info in your letter. Thanks for the DUMP DeLauro sticker. Please
fill me in on your plans for teh Tea party meetings at Rosa's Naugatuck Office. I'd like to attend. |
Dodd being Dodd
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | May 20, 2009 | Editorial Democratic Sen. Christopher
Dodd's bill to limit the fees and penalties credit-card companies may charge delinquent borrowers offers new punishment for
the one-third of cardholders who have good or excellent credit ratings, and pay their and bills on time and in full. Under the bill, banks will be allowed to make up for the tens of billions in lost revenues by reviving annual fees,
curtailing rewards programs and immediately charging interest on purchases, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The philosophy is akin to the one in President Obama's housing-rescue plan, under which people who have paid their
mortgages faithfully are ineligible for a program that lets judges reward irresponsible borrowers by rewriting mortgages in
default or foreclosure to improve the terms and lower the principal owed. But what benefit does
Sen. Dodd derive from his bill? An uninterrupted flow of campaign cash from his buddies in the
lending industry.
Editorial......Waterbury Republican American
May 7, 2009
DODD INC.
Time-honored dishonor
Until now, people
had no reason to doubt what journalists were writing about Jackie Clegg. As managing partner of Clegg International and a
former U.S. Export-Import Bank executive, she seemed to be a “highly successful banker and businesswoman.” It
turns out she’s just another government staffer, one who owes her success to her husband, Democrat Christopher
Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman.
But she was riding his coattails even before their marriage. In 1997,
she was a faceless congressional aide when Bill Clinton nominated her to oversee public and congressional relations for
the government- run bank. Her main qualification was she was main squeeze of Sen. Dodd, one of Mr. Clinton’s golfing
buddies. Mr. Clinton owned him because as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1995-97, Sen.
Dodd raked in millions in illegal donations that helped bankroll Clinton-Gore ’96. And what better way to reward him
than by giving his wife a government job with a six-figure, taxpayer-funded salary?
Since her marriage, Mrs. Dodd,
whose name also appeared on those infamous sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide Financial, has seen her income quadruple
thanks to her recruitment for lucrative positions on corporate boards, including CME Group, the world’s largest
futures exchange. Those jobs have enriched the Dodd household while netting Sen. Dodd’s campaigns at least $40,000 in
contributions, according to a published report. In addition, from 2001-04, she was a director for IPC Holdings, an off-shore
company controlled by AIG; Sen. Dodd’s political and financial entanglements with AIG are well documented. Today,
she also is designated, as required by federal law, as the highly paid “financial expert” on two of her boards’
audit committees, even though she has neither auditing nor accounting credentials or experience. As for Clegg International,
she admits she hasn’t had a client since 2005.
Mrs. Dodd protests her husband didn’t help her get
these jobs. But with actual business credentials so thin, does she really believe corporations would want her if she
wasn’t the wife of a five-term U.S.
senator? Sheila Krumholz of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics doesn’t
think so: “In Washington, offering employment to the spouses and family members of politicians is a time-honored,
if not so honorable, tradition. It’s another way for politicians to gain income and for donors, potential donors, people
and industries with business before government to curry favor with powerful members who have jurisdiction over their
issues.” Leave it to the Dodds to exploit this tradition shamelessly. Comment left on You Tube video: Nice Nice
Video. I really loved your video. Youtube can be a great asset for you. If you need any help getting your video exposed, check
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Cole Thomas FINANCIAL CRISIS
Dodd man out
Time magazine’s recent list of “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis”
included many obvious choices, and a readers’ poll named Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee
from 1995- 2000, as the No. 1 culprit.
Conspicuously absent was the current chairman,
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. Yet on the same day the list was published, Time also had this Dodd ditty: “This is,
of course, the same Chris Dodd who was Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee beginning in 2007, when the banks began their
meltdown. He was the one who received the most campaign cash of any senator from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two companies
that he defended against increased regulation that might have actually tempered some of the disaster that has followed. He
was the one who spent a huge chunk of 2007 not in the Senate, but on the campaign trail, carrying out a lackluster presidential
effort funded largely by the banking and insurance industries. ... His top contributor was Citibank. His fourth largest
contributor was the now-collapsed firm, AIG, a major purveyor of the complex derivatives that helped cause the crisis.
He was also the one who in 2007 went before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to praise the ‘history of solid regulation’
in the U.S. capital markets.
‘Win or lose, (people) invest with a high degree of confidence that American
balance sheets are accurate, that investment products like securities and derivatives are properly valued, and that the markets
are well-policed against those who would commit negligent, deceptive or fraudulent acts,’ he said.”
How is it possible for one person to be this wrong this often, and cause so much financial hardship and havoc, and still not
make Time’s top 25?
WATERBURY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN Feb 18, 2009
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| Submitted by June the Grand Inquisitor |
From Fran of Oxford......comment on How to Help page May 4. "Want to get a couple of signs and some shirts and stickers. What kind of payment and who
to make it out to. Just want to do my part to help eradicate this crooked Bum!" Saw
the site link in the online
REP. MURPHY WANTS TO RAISE YOUR TAXES Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District,
told a crowd at the Litchfield Community Center, “There are some very rich, very stupid people in charge of our
financial system” (Feb. 19 article, “Murphy says stimulus bill seen as necessary by most”). Although he
was referring to bank and investment firm CEOs, he should have included politicians in the mix. Sen. Christopher Dodd,
D-Conn., Senate Banking Committee chairman, and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the Financial Services Committee,
come to mind.
Murphy went on to say the only way to pay for the massive debt the government is ringing up with the
stimulus bill was to “control domestic spending and increase tax revenue.”
Don’t count on the
spending control, but as sure as death, taxes will be increased. Murphy has indicated he will support the repeal of the
Bush tax cuts.
As a state senator, Murphy voted 27 times to increase your taxes. He is doing for the country what
he has done to the state. A more appropriate name for the “stimulus” bill is the “stick-itto- us”
bill.
Thomas Ferrelli
Wolcott Letter copied from REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
March 4, 2009 Tom from Avon, CT Thank you for starting this. My cousin was in the mortgage business
and saw the writing on the wall so he quit 6 years ago. Dodd is a joke. Any of us in the private sector who failed so miserably
as a chairman would be fired. I am fed up with his rhetoric...............March 2 Apparently Chris Dodd is only one of many Democrats who have and are taking advantage of all Americans.
Unless someone speaks out against him and the others we will get what we deserve. I suspect that the "Sons of Liberty"
from our original revolution were only a small group of men who started with an idea. As Thomas Jefferson once said,"The
tree of liberty must be nourished from time to time with the blood of tryants and patriots." I'm sure he was speaking
only metaphorically when he said it. Count me in. We have to start somewhere!! Richard F. received Feb. 3 ANOTHER RECRUIT FOR ‘DUMP DODD’ CAMPAIGN
Add
my name to the “Dump Dodd” list. I have been trying to contact him via e-mail for more than two months to ask
about his responsibility in the banking collapse, and I get nothing but silence in return.
Although I abhor his
politics, Rep.
Chris Murphy, D-5th District, at least responds to his constituents. So do state Rep. Corky Mazurek,
D-Wolcott, state Sen. Sam S.F. Caligiuri, R-16th District, and U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman. Dodd, however, is apparently beyond
the reach of us mere citizens.
Sen. Dodd can be forgiven for being too dumb to recognize a financial disaster
happening right under his nose. He can be forgiven for being AWOL from his supposed home state during his pitiful attempt
to become president. Voters can forgive him for being an incompetent senator. But he will not be forgiven for being an arrogant,
selfish, uncaring public servant. I’m only one vote, but mine is one vote he never will get again.
Dick Kelley
Wolcott
Above letter copied from the Republican-American January 10, 2009
JOIN MOVEMENT TO ‘DUMP DODD’ IN NEXT ELECTION
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., is good at rhetoric, but not by example.
Dodd told Fairfield County labor
leaders Dec. 22 what they perhaps wanted to hear.
Dodd blasted the Bush administrators (what else is new?)
and asked the incoming Obama administration to do more to help families avert foreclosure while affirming his ties as an ally
to unions.
As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which regulates mortgage lending, Dodd did nothing
to help families to avert foreclosure.
The only one Dodd ever helped is himself. He used his Senate chairmanship
to get a preferred interest rate with Countrywide Financial.
We join the “Dump Dodd” movement
to remove him and all other tell-you-what-you-want-to-hear politicians from office while leaving our country in a mess.
Stan and Dorothy Muzyk
Derby
DEMOCRATS WILL MISS PRESIDENT BUSH
One of the main causes
of America’s problems is the naive, misinformed voter. How can they re-elect politicians after these remarks:
■ “(Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) are fundamentally sound
and strong.” — Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, July 12, 2008.
■ “I believe there has been more alarm raised about potential unsafety
and unsoundness than, in fact, exists.” — Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., regarding Fannie and Freddie, 2007.
These statements were by leading Democrats, not President Bush. Are we going to blame and bash Bush for the next
four years of tax increases?
If the American voter doesn’t wake up to facts, we will revisit 1929-1935.
Eugene R. Guerrera
Waterbury
Above letter copied from the Republican-American January 8, 2009
DOUBTS DOG DODD AS BANKING CHAIRMAN
The Republican-American recently reported Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., will remain as chairman of the Senate Banking
Committee. I can’t explain how pleased and relieved I was to read that.
Sen. Dodd brings a great deal
of experience with mortgage companies and financial institutions to this leadership role. He was able to negotiate
a very nice mortgage for himself and of course worked very closely with financial institutions when he was a candidate
for president. Using millions of dollars in campaign contributions from such institutions, he was able to win one delegate
in Iowa. He also has the distinction of being elected as a senator in Connecticut and moving with his family to Iowa
during his presidential campaign. I guess that means he represents two states.
This announcement by Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid is very important because it means we will have continuity in this very important
leadership post. If Sen. Dodd had not been such an exceptional chairman of the Banking Committee for the last two years, we
might actually have a real banking crisis with banks needing huge amounts of money from the federal government.
The stock market possibly could have taken a nosedive, and we might even have to worry about a recession.
Thankfully,
Sen. Dodd will continue to provide his experienced leadership for another year.
When I was a lot younger,
my mother told me sarcasm is not a good trait.
Apparently, I didn’t believe her.
Edward R. Dorsett
Morris
Above letter copied from the CT Republican-American January 1, 2009
At 2:45am on January 1, 2009, james riley said… Dude, I gotta friend you.
Read your comments in Human Events et.al. Awesome.
I'm not from CT, so have
no legal vote about Sen Dodd, but his graft vis-a-vis Freddie and Frannie left me with a burning desire to do something to
get this excrescence out of office. I'll send you a gift over @ dumpdodd. It ain't much, but I did swear an oath to
defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
V/r Jim
The email above was copied from Team Sarah http://www.teamsarah.org/profile/Chris35
We need to replace leaders who failed
usTo the editor: OK, citizens. It's time for the dysfunction
in our society to stop. Our politicians have failed us. Sen. Christopher Dodd is a joke! He did not know he was getting special
treatment on a loan. C'mon! Sen. Joseph Lieberman abandoned his party and is most at home having a corned beef sandwich
in some deli. What have they done for us? They must be replaced. Shays is already gone. Those in academia have failed
this country. They are leftist, unpatriotic and turning our county socialist. President Bush is also spending money
like water and has failed his base. This is not the country I have spent seven decades fighting for, defending and
supporting with honor. Is there an honest politician in the United States? ...................Are there any politicians
with names other than Kennedy, Clinton, Bush or Cuomo? ........................................................ It is
time for the citizens to rise up and throw the bums out. I'm sure there are good people somewhere. Let's find them.................................. Allen
R. Koenig Cos Cob Mr. Smith is listening Allen, and he hears
you. Above are excerpts of letter from the Greenwich Time Dec. 22, 2008
LIEBERMAN WORTH KEEPING; DODD DESERVES DUMPING
Audrey Blondin, Democratic State Central Committee member from
Litchfield, is working to condemn Sen. Joe Leiberman beacuse of his differences with the Democratic machine (Dec.
19 article, “State Democrats punish Lieberman with a stern letter”). I am sure she would like to dump Lieberman
altogether.
Too bad. Joe is one politician who is honest and nonpartisan when it comes to making the hard
choices. He was re-elected by a broad coalition of independents, Republicans and free-thinking Democrats. Joe Lieberman is
a fair person who views things as they should be, in realistic terms.
To lose Joe to the Democratic grinches would
be to deprive our state of a truly honest and ethical senator. Let’s keep Joe and dump that Tammany type, Chris Dodd.
Barrant H. Sweet
Goshen
Above letter copied from the Republican-American December 24, 2008
Sorry Mr. Sweet, but Joe has soured too. We believe, "Joe Gotta Go"!
DODD DESERVING OF PAPER’S CRITICISM
I am one of the majority of people who appreciate your editorials criticizing Sen. Christopher Dodd. His
support of government bailouts, especially for the automakers, is sickening.
I only hope I live long
enough to vote him out at election time. His ego is so ingrained, he would never resign even if pressured. Why doesn’t
someone investigate him and throw him out?
Wow! I feel better. Connecticut, unite against Dodd.
Abu Shaw
Woodbury
Above letter copied from the CT Republican-American Dec. 16, 2008
".....if 2 terms is good enough for the president, then term limits should be applied to Congress
as well. The Founders made the House of Representatives reps. a 2-year term for a reason. To allow for rapid turnover and
continual diversity within that body. The Founders did not want to see life-long celebrity career politicians. They inherently
knew that stagnant power impedes change." Chris...........Woodbury
SEN. DODD THINKS VOTERS ARE STUPID
When I saw the Dec. 8
article “Dodd calling on GM’s boss to step aside,” I had to laugh at Sen. Christopher Dodd’s complete
hypocrisy. He is calling on the CEO of General Motors to step down if the company wants piece of a $15 billion government
loan.
Meanwhile, Sen. Dodd and his partner in crime, Rep. Barney Frank, DMass., voted to award his cronies
in the financial industry a blank check and required no accountability on the part of senior executives from the industry
on whose oversight committee he serves.
His financial buddies continue to host junkets and award themselves massive,
ridiculous bonuses despite their poor performance. But somehow, that’s OK with Sen. Dodd.
Meanwhile, Sen.
Dodd still has not produced his mortgage documents from Countrywide (I can get a copy of mine sent to me with a phone call).
No one gets a rate below the market and doesn’t know it. He obviously thinks we’re stupid.
I
hope Connecticut voters remember his embarrassing hypocritical display when he comes up for re-election in 2010.
Penny Riordan
Watertown
Above letter copied from the CT Republican-American Dec. 10, 2008 SENATORS PUT DUTY BEHIND AMBITIONS
Our representative form of government certainly leaves
a lot to be desired, particularly here in Connecticut.
Consider what our two senators have done for us. Christopher
Dodd actually moved to Iowa with his family to run for president, while on our payroll. Joe Lieberman has spent the last
eight years politicking for higher office. Some representation.
Please tell me where I can obtain pins and bumper
stickers saying “Dump Dodd” and “Joe Gotta Go.”
Chet Hardisty
Woodbury
Above letter copied from the Republican-American Dec. 11, 2008
We hear you Chet ! You will have a bumper sticker and a button by sundown today. (Chet got his button and bumper sticker at 1:10 PM EST) DODD SHOULD RESIGN ALONG WITH GM CEO
Sen. Christopher Dodd suggested this week Rick Wagoner, the CEO of General Motors, should resign. For the first time in a
long time, I agree with Dodd.
But Wagoner is not the only one who ought to resign. Dodd is chairman of the
Senate Banking Committee. His job was to steer this country away from the financial predicament in which it is now mired.
He failed.
Dodd, along with the execrable Reps. Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Gregory Meeks and Lacy Clay,
failed this country and failed it miserably.
As recently as August 2007, Dodd was seeking more
deregulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. While Barack Obama was
accusing Sen.
John McCain of favoring “deregulation,” not one Democrat asked for more regulation
of governmentsponsored enterprises between 2001 and 2007. President Bush and Sen.
McCain sought more regulation,
and Democrats stifled it. Frank and company swore there was nothing wrong with the Fannie and Freddie.
Dodd
was busy taking a sweetheart mortgage from Countrywide Financial, and one wonders whether all the money donated to Dodd
by Fannie and Freddie made him oblivious to the abuse that was transpiring at the GSEs.
Hilariously, Dodd now
demands accountability from the chiefs of the auto industry. Why aren’t we entitled to demand the same accountability
of Dodd? If Dodd is sincere about accountability, he ought to resign now.
He is an embarrassment to this
state.
John Kanca III
Middlebury
Above letter copied from the Republican-American Dec. 12, 2008
THERE ARE BETTER STIMULUS METHODS THAN PRINTING MONEY
Instead of printing a bunch of “stimulus” money that will be sent to people so they spend what they
can’t afford (probably) on things they don’t really need that are made in China and elsewhere, consider:
A better approach would be for the federal government to provide subsidies to states that remove sales tax from all consumer
goods manufactured entirely in the United States.
It would be easy to implement and monitor; the bar code
could say it all, and merchants and manufacturers who misrepresent the origins of the products they sell would be subject
to heavy fines.
That “stimulus” actually could help create manufacturing and employment and not
just be a patch that is digging the hole deeper for an economy based on consumption of foreign goods.
Ben Davidson
Winsted
Above letter copied from the Republican-American Dec. 13, 2008
Hello! I am a Woodbury resident.
I was a lifelong Democrat until this last election...........
I am a proud member of Team Sarah. Please visit the website
at: http://www.teamsarah.org/ I am also a member of Team Sarah, Connecticut for Sarah.
I blog as "Lizzy in CT". We have many members
in the Connecticut group from all over the state. There are over 400 Team Sarah members who are residents of CT. We are reaching
out to the CT members to join our group and plan to meet after the beginning of the new year. We are formulating our agenda
and are anxious to get down to work.
I have posted your website on our Team Sarah Connecticut for Sarah group
page and am encouraging everyone to get involved in the DUMP DODD organization. I'm proud you are in Woodbury!
So.......Please allow me to join DUMP DODD 2010. And, let me know what I can do!
Sincerely,
Lizzy in CT. Letter from Lizzy in CT received December 15, 2008
Okay Lizzy, here's what you can do. And everyone of like mind may do the
same. 1. First, get some buttons and bumper stickers. They
are your tickets to the main event. Wear the buttons all the time. 2.
Whenever you're standing in line at the grocery store or in any other place where there are people, strike up a friendly
conversation and gradually change the talk to Mr. Dodd. Show them your button. You will quickly learn the other person's
leanings. Keep cheerful and optimistic. After all we are Americans! 3.
If you get a positive response, tell them about Dump Dodd and the search for Connecticut's "Mr.
Smith" to replace him. Be sure to invite them to Dodd's farewell party. Everyone likes to be invited to a party! 4. Carry some of our calling cards, (we'll send you a bunch with every request for buttons or
stickers) and pass them out. 5. And of course, what's most
vital, GET INVOLVED, if not with Dump Dodd, then with some other group or movement. We are opposing Dodd as well as battling apathy.
Lizzy, you already have exceeded this short list . You care and you want to make a difference. Perhaps
it is we who will follow your list
next. Thank you.
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