Dino Rossi, a two-time Republican nominee for governor in Washington, is set to announce, likely on Wednesday, that he is running for Senate, according to a G.O.P. official.
…and Simmons out.
Former Connecticut Rep. Rob Simmons announced Tuesday that he is suspending his campaign for Senate, just days after he lost the state Republican Party nomination to former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon.
Continue reading #rsrh Rossi in, Simmons out: the implications.
I had the opportunity to talk with Rob Simmons (R CAND, CT-SEN) this afternoon, so of course we discussed the recent art theft in Paris… no, of course I’m joking. We talked about Dick Blumenthal’s lying about his military record:
Rob Simmons’ site is here: details about the Vets for Freedom PAC endorsement here.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
970K for Simmons; 900K for Dodd. Please also note that Dodd’s spokesman carefully did not mention his candidate’s cash-on-hand while making excuses for Dodd’s lackluster third quarter, which suggests that the lobbyist crony* is having problems on that front, too. Couple that with his ongoing Countrywide problem, and one has to wonder what the next set of polls will look like…
Moe Lane
PS: Rob Simmons, Sam Caligiuri, and Peter Schiff are all running for the right to defeat Dodd. We’re fortunate to have a strong field for that primary.
*Note that the K Street availability mentioned in that link was in the third quarter. Maybe Dodd should start thinking about spending more time with his family? Ireland is a lovely place to live, I understand.
Crossposted to RedState.
No word yet whether he was sipping wine from a jeweled chalice and gnawing on a drumstick at the time.
There are times when you don’t need to go past the title and subtitle:
Dodd Says Questions About Wife’s Role in Health Care Industry ‘Offensive’
Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., whose wife Jackie Clegg Dodd sits on the boards of four health care companies, disputes the suggestion that his wife’s career could pose a conflict of interest.
It really does say it all, doesn’t it? We’re facing a ‘universal health care system’ scheduled to cost us at least 1 trillion and decrease the number of uninsured by maybe one-third; and the guy who is helping get that boondoggle enacted into law is also the guy who’s been playing games with his financial disclosures. Again.
And yet, bringing up the minor little detail that his wife is on the board of four health care companies is apparently Beyond the Pale, if you’ll pardon the pun. Well, it’s not. This is not an aristocracy, and Dodd is not a Duke: his actions are ultimately accountable to the population of both Connecticut, and the nation. If he cannot grasp that concept, he does not have to keep being a Senator.
Speaking of which…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Credit where credit is due: this is a nice piece of reporting on Dodd by the Huffington Post. The title (“Dodd Dinner With Online Payday Lenders Transforms Into Fundraiser“) explains a bit already, but the background is this: there’s a lobbying group called the Online Lenders Alliance. Fair enough. They’re throwing a conference this week. So far, so good. There’s a bunch of people from Congress involved or speaking, on both sides of the aisle. Fine*. Senator Dodd was one of the scheduled Senators for the event, except when asked about it first his staff, then Dodd himself flatly denied that he was there on OLA’s behalf at all; it was an independent fundraising dinner. Nothing unusu… wait, what?
Inside the restaurant, Dodd staffers said the dinner, which was not open to press, was not even sponsored by the Online Lenders Alliance.
The dinner “is not an OLA event,” OLA spokeswoman Lisa McGreevy said in a subsequent phone interview. But the OLA agenda lists a Dodd dinner — was there a mixup?
“I don’t think there was any mixup,” she said. “There is a fundraiser tonight for Senator Dodd.”
McGreevy added: “There may be some OLA people there.”
Continue reading Dodd lying to Left over online lender lobbyist ties?
[UPDATE] Welcome, AoSHQ readers.
Because you can tell the difference between pouring water on a towel held over the mouth of three separate individuals (and under very carefully controlled conditions), and sending 17 million people to the gas chamber*.
(H/T: Melissa Clouthier)
But, do you know something? Don’t get mad.
Get even.
More here.
Moe Lane
*For the record: this comment does not mean that I deny you your right to disapprove of the former. Merely that Dodd’s equation of it with the latter neatly shows why we have Godwin’s Law in the first place.
Crossposted to RedState.
That was essentially Rob Simmon’s response to Jim Geraghty when the latter called him up to get his reaction to the news that Sen Chris Dodd (D-CT) received only five in-state donations this quarter. Simmons also went on to opine that he was pretty sure that he himself could get more than five in-state donations that day.
Which, given the way that Dodd polls these days, may not be not a brag.
Crossposted to RedState.
