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In reply to the discussion: The kind of Democrat I endorse works to support the New Deal. [View all]pa28
(6,145 posts)32. Agreed. As long as we're naming names here let's not forget Chris Dodd.
FORMER DEM SENATOR CHRIS DODD ADVISED EXECS TO GIVE TO GOP: FUNDRAISING DOES HAVE AN IMPACT
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/chris-dodd-former-dem-presidential-aspirant-advises-clients-give-gop-fundraising-impact/
Dodd in particular encouraged industry executives to donate to Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over intellectual property and copyright issues important to the movie industry. Dodd evidently had to overcome one hurdle, however: Squeamishness about giving money directly to the National Republican Congressional Campaign, whose goal was to increase the GOP House majority.
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Dodd chose not to run for reelection to his Senate seat in 2010, after revelations that he had received a special discount mortgage from Countrywides VIP program. During his time in Congress, Dodd was a senior member of the Banking Committee, a position that oversaw mortgage lenders.
As he retired, he told the public he would not become a lobbyist though he soon signed up for the job as the movie industrys top lobbyist, a gig compensated at over $3.2 million a year.
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Dodd chose not to run for reelection to his Senate seat in 2010, after revelations that he had received a special discount mortgage from Countrywides VIP program. During his time in Congress, Dodd was a senior member of the Banking Committee, a position that oversaw mortgage lenders.
As he retired, he told the public he would not become a lobbyist though he soon signed up for the job as the movie industrys top lobbyist, a gig compensated at over $3.2 million a year.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/chris-dodd-former-dem-presidential-aspirant-advises-clients-give-gop-fundraising-impact/
I'm sure people here will suggest you are demanding a purity test by supporting new deal Democrats. However, if you look at the record of opportunistic third way types like Gramm and Dodd who have run the party for the last 25 years you can see why the party is standing on the brink of ruin.
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Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Smooth talker, that Bush Sr was. But it doesn't fool anyone
sabrina 1
Jun 2015
#40
The internet definitely made them more vulnerable. Makes you wonder why they allowed it to happen?
sabrina 1
Jun 2015
#41
Even Bartcop went through the roof when Robert Parry mentioned it the first time.
Octafish
Jun 2015
#47
Know your BFEE: Phil Gramm, the Meyer Lansky of the War Party, Set-Up the Biggest Bank Heist Ever.
Octafish
Jun 2015
#24
I didn't like that Glass-Steagall was repealed either, however let's not romanticize the past
YoungDemCA
Jun 2015
#19
Like when the Tag Team smears me as a ''Conspiracy Theorist'?' Which sounds nice.
Octafish
Jun 2015
#44
Wasn't just the enlisted corps from south of the Mason-Dixon line who resented that, either.
Octafish
Jun 2015
#29