Monday, March 16, 2009

Print Version > Simmons makes it official: He'll run against Dodd for Senate seat


Print Version > Simmons makes it official: He'll run against Dodd for Senate seat
Posted by Frank Smith at 16.3.09

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't care who the Republicans run so long as I am given the opportunity to vote against Dodd, and just like his father before him, we, the voters get to send him packing as we throw him out of office.

March 16, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Anonymous said...

Peter Rabbit could beat Dodd in this election.

March 17, 2009 at 7:07 AM
Anonymous said...

Now that is change you can believe in!

March 17, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Anonymous said...

With all this media hype about the million dollar bonuses that AIG gave to its managers, it was made public today that an amendment to the original bailout bill submitted by Senator Chris Dodd of CT specifically allowed the payment of any bonuses that were previously agreed to. It has also been reported that Connecticut's Senator Dodd took over $100,000 in campaign donations from AIG, so what could his motivation be for offering the amendment?

Who else is ready for "Change we can believe in?"

March 17, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Anonymous said...

Anonymous said... Senator Dodd took over $100,000 in campaign donations from AIG, so what could his motivation.....

Must be to pay off that terrible deal he got on his mortgages. You know how that is right? Guy just can't seem to catch a break.

March 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Anonymous said...

This would be $50 well spent!

Former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons, who announced this week he intends to run for senator, is slated to make one of his first campaign stops in Bristol Friday for the Republicans’ Lincoln Day fundraising dinner.
Simmons is taking aim at longtime U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, a Democrat who could be vulnerable in the 2010 race.
Bristol GOP Chairman T.J. Barnes said Tuesday that Simmons is one of the few people in his party in Connecticut with the stature to take on Dodd – and perhaps win.
The Lincoln Day dinner is typically the major fundraiser for the city’s Republican Party each year. Barnes said he expects at least 60 people to attend the dinner at Nuchie’s.
Simmons, who lives in Stonington, is in a dead heat with Dodd, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released last week.
The poll’s director, Douglas Schwartz, said the results “have to worry” Dodd since Simmons “is not well known outside his district, yet he is running neck and neck with Dodd at this point,” according to a Quinnipiac press release.
Simmons represented southeastern Connecticut in Congress from 2000 until 2006, when he was ousted by U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney in a razor-thin election.
The city GOP dinner, which costs $50 a person, is slated to begin with cocktails at 5:30 p.m., a meal at 6:30 and an address by Simmons at 7:30.
For more information or to buy tickets, contact Barnes at (860) 314-0423.

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POSTED BY STEVE COLLINS AT 3/17/2009 12:38:00 PM
LABELS: DODD, GOP, REPUBLICANS, SIMMONS

March 18, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Anonymous said...

this would be $50 well spent!

March 19, 2009 at 2:30 AM

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