rssDodd: No Local Hero
Friday, April 17, 2009 at 9:43 am
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Reporters seeking Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) first quarter fundraising filings were met with silence for most of yesterday. Now we know why.
Though Dodd has already raised more than $1 million in 2009 — a handsome sum that places him well ahead of the Republicans he could face in next year’s election — only five individual donations came from Connecticut residents. From the Connecticut Post:
The five-term incumbent reported raising just $4,250 from five Connecticut residents during the first three months of the year while raking in $604,745 from nearly 400 individuals living outside the state.
Indeed, he received more from individuals residing in 18 other states than he did from those living in his own.
He took in $90,795 from Massachusetts residents, $81,550 from Texas, $56,150 from Maryland, and $53,400 from New York.
Dodd also collected $437,407 from political action committees, including two based in Connecticut that contributed $7,000. He took in $2,271 from individuals contributing less than $200 each.
A Quinnipiac University poll released earlier in the month found Dodd trailing former GOP Rep. Rob Simmons, the likely Republican nominee, by 16 points. None of this spells good things for the Democrats, who’ve got eyes on picking up Senate seats in 2010, not losing those that have been safe for decades.
5 Comments
Comment posted April 17, 2009 @ 7:34 am
Looks like he's going to have to call his friends in AIG………
Comment posted April 17, 2009 @ 8:19 am
This is good to hear. Senator Dodd has done nothing but cave in to special interest groups; first Fannie Mae then turning against them after passing legislation that led to this financial crisis and second helping AIG's executive pay package because he was beholden to them from all the campaign money he took.
He tried to play both sides of the street and as always when a Senator is “bought” he will eventually go down in flames and I for one want the arrogant idiot voted out. The people of CT are doing the right thing in voting this political hack out of office and getting new blood to take his place. IMHO he should be in jail for all the harm he has done in sending this country into a deep and prolonged recession.
Comment posted April 30, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
This ability of the two old parties to subvert the local democratic process – ie if they are so unpopular in-state, they can still raise mountains for special interests out of state – shows yet another reason why a binding 'none-of-the-above' option is needed on all ballots. The parties both are too incentivized to stack who's on the ballot otherwise leaving the voters no real choices. We need to have the option to say NO when non-democratic forces control the balloting process; and NOTA would do it.
Comment posted May 1, 2009 @ 12:01 am
This ability of the two old parties to subvert the local democratic process – ie if they are so unpopular in-state, they can still raise mountains for special interests out of state – shows yet another reason why a binding 'none-of-the-above' option is needed on all ballots. The parties both are too incentivized to stack who's on the ballot otherwise leaving the voters no real choices. We need to have the option to say NO when non-democratic forces control the balloting process; and NOTA would do it.
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