It was recently reported that Senator Dodd has prostate cancer. This won’t affect the campaign to elect chris dodd as the Senator has already said he’ll continue his re-election campaign. As the New York Times quoted the Senator:
I’m running for re-election. Now, I’ll be a little leaner and a little meaner. But I am running.
This will fold right in with the election campaign. Senator Dodd has already admitted he has better healthcare than others:
“I have the benefit of being in Congress. Having a good health care plan is not available to everyone.”
This has also benefited the campaign by taking the recent Countrywide mortgage scandal off the front pages. He’ll also be more sympathetic figure when opponents bring up the senator’s past indiscretions. The campaign to elect Chris Dodd gets yet another boost.
Dodd Didn’t Break Rules
The Senate ethics committee, truly a jury of Dodd’s peers, has cleared the Senator of any rules violations when getting his Countrywide VIP mortgages.
Dodd’s fellow Senators spent over a year investigating the charges brought by the Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington. They found no credible evidence in their search, but did say the Senator should have used better judgment to avoid the appearance of preferential treatment for being a Senator. But really, what’s the point of being a Senator without a few perks.
This will give the campaign to elect Chris Dodd a boost. Now financial institutions can contribute to the banking committee chairman’s re-election campaign without the taint of corruption affecting them.
There’s been a struggle over whether to issue a subpoena for Countrywide mortgage records to see what other lawmakers were in the VIP program. This should go away now that the ethics committee has ruled the VIP program was proper, well as far as they could tell. The elect Chris Dodd campaign is confident that members of the ethics committee were not also Countrywide VIP members.