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By: Right Voices » Blog Archive » More Sweetheart Loan Details On Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:48:37 +0000

[...] Everyday Republican blog has the details of Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing [...]

By: Headless Horseman

Headless Horseman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:28:36 +0000

Poor Dodd. What do his constituents in Iowa think of him now?

By: easthartfordtaxpayer

easthartfordtaxpayer — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:12:27 +0000

I agree with Jim Palmer, except for the fact that receiving preferential treatment in the form of waived fees and such is a violation of the code of ethics he is required to follow. He can’t be accepting gifts from the people he’s in charge of legislating.

I’ve analyzed the rates he got and short of a documented admission that his rates were lower than he qualified for by Countrywide or Dodd the rates will never matter. It was quite possible to get that type of rate on an ARM at the time he borrowed.

The problem is the waiver of points and float down fees which have been admitted to by a countrywide representative. Don’t send him to jail. Strip him of his position on the Senate Banking Committee and deny him future committee positions.

By: JohnG

JohnG — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:09:55 +0000

As a CT resident, perhaps I can lay claim to some insight on this issue.

Although he appears to be delaying the release of his financial records, I’m sure that Sen. Dodd will release them soon.

In fact, I’ll bet they’ll be released right after Sen. Kerry releases his service records!

By: Jim Palmer

Jim Palmer — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:02:04 +0000

Violating the “public’s notion of fairness” is not a crime. Countrywide can give whatever deal they want to whoever they want for whatever reason they want. The bailout bill IS a crime for which, in my opinion, Dodd ought to be thrown in prison or at least run out of town on a rail. Whether or not Dodd got a better deal on his mortgage than the average person is irrelevant. Dodd getting a better deal doesn’t violate my life, liberty, or property in any way. The bailout bill does. In my world, everyone who supported that bill would be thrown in jail regardless of what kind of rate they had on their mortgage. Thieves belong in jail.