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Rob Simmons, who is challenging Chris Dodd for his Connecticut Senate seat in 2010, discusses the race with Sean Hannity on the same day that polls showed him leading Dodd by a whopping 16 points.
Former Congressman Rob Simmons appears on Fox News Channel's "Hannity" to discuss his bid against Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT)
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Democrats in Connecticut and Washington closed ranks Thursday behind embattled Sen. Chris Dodd after the release of a stunning poll that showed that he has cratered in the wake of the AIG-bonus controversy.
Democrats in Connecticut and Washington
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20825.html
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Hot Air
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Rob Simmons announces his candidacy for the US Senate in 2010 against Connecticut's senior Senator, Chris Dodd.
April 2, 2009
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When it comes to Rob Simmons, I guess you can't teach a old dog new tricks...
On Tuesday, Simmons held his first official campaign event since announcing for the Senate: a reception in at Republican headquarters with lobbyists who represent finance and
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My Left Nutmeg
http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11245
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If these numbers hold up, they will also make the Republican
primary more competitive. Sam Caligiuri is more conservative than
Rob Simmons. While Simmons continues to look like the strongest
candidate, Caligiuri supporters will be able to argue
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American Spectator
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/04/02/another-dodd-thought
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There is perhaps nobody in Congress who had more to do with the bailouts and banking collapse than Chris Dodd. While the government has worked long and hard to shift the blame away from the political class and to the country’s business elite by
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Say Anything
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Staying true to his colors, Rob Simmons held his first official campaign event for US Senate at GOP headquarters with lobbyists who represent Washington special interests. As someone who embodies the old guard GOP party and its ties to the special interests of Washington, it was a perfect setting to launch his campaign. People of Connecticut are looking for a new direction for this economy, and former GOP Congressman Rob Simmons is addicted to the old ways of Washington. Make sure to share ...
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Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) fell further behind former Rep. Rob Simmons (R) in polling released Thursday testing the 2010 Senate race.
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Roll Call
http://www.rollcall.com/news/33769-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
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Looks like Chris Dodd is on the ropes and ready to be knocked out!
Embattled Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is in severe political danger, trailing former GOP congressman Rob Simmons by 16 points, 50 to 34 percent, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. Among
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Former Rep. Rob Simmons, R-Conn., says he voted for Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., in the 1980s. But now...
Former Rep. Rob Simmons, R-Conn., says he voted for Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., in the 1980s. But now that Dodd finds himself caught up in a string of
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ABC News
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Politics/~3/_9OLWgtthjM/story
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I just got off the phone with former GOP congressman Rob Simmons, who has declared his candidacy to challenge Chris Dodd. I asked him about the Washington Times story about AIG Financial Services chief executive Joseph Cassano’s 2006 fundraising push
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Blogs for Victory
http://blogsforvictory.com/2009/03/31/dodd-and-his-aig-donations/
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Republicans will likely have a primary to determine who will challenge Sen. Chris Dodd (D) in 2010. Former Rep. Rob Simmons (R) has already announced his candidacy, and state Sen. Sam Caligiuri (R) will reportedly also announce a bid today.
According
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Roll Call
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_111/atr/33662-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
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That's the response of Rob Simmons, former congressman and Republican challenger to Sen. Chris Dodd, on the news that a AIG Financial Services executive organized a fundraising drive for the senator, asking employees and their spouses to donate the
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The Corner
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDlkMmYzNjExNWE0OWZmM2UxZmNkMDgxOGE5MDlkY2E=
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Rob Simmons may be the GOP frontrunner to challenge Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), but he will be facing some competition for the nomination.
State senator Sam Caligiuri will be announcing that he’s running, according to the Hartford Courant, setting up
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0309/Simmons_facing_primary_in_Connecticut.html
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If he were in the Senate now, he said he would have voted against the stimulus bill, calling it a throwback to the 1930s. A better plan would be to return to the 1960s or 1980s, he explained, when presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan helped
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Anchor Rising
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Further, the real estate dealings stirred up memories of Dodd's successfully obtaining a presidential pardon in 2001 for a close friend who had a felony conviction for insider trading.
All this has chipped away at Dodd's stature. It has diminished his
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Hartford Courant
http://feeds.courant.com/~r/Courant/Commentary/~3/WS1ZnYCJDwU/hc-commentarydautrich0329.artmar29,0,3435745.story
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Former GOP Rep. Rob Simmons has been positioning himself as a clean -hands alternative to Senate banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, who has been mired in mini-scandals surrounding his mortgages and the AIG bonus fiasco.
But Simmons has own
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0309/Lobbyists_host_Simmons_event.html
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After the extended flap about what his role was in allowing payment of the AIG bonuses, conventional wisdom on Chris Dodd seemed to turn on a dime in the last week, as he suddenly went from being considered relatively safe to being considered a lame,
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Swing State Project
http://www.swingstateproject.com//showDiary.do?diaryId=4666
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Connecticut Senate candidate Rob Simmons could be running alongside one of his top legislative aides on next year’s ballot.
Justin Bernier, who worked with Simmons for two years as his senior legislative aide, announced today he will be challenging Rep.
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0309/Chris_Murphy_gets_first_GOP_challenger.html
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There's no way Chris Dodd couldn't be in the middle of the A.I.G. uproar. First of all, he's the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. But more to the point, Dodd had written a clause and inserted it into the Stimulus Bill limiting excessive
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Down With Tyranny!
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Three days after announcing his plan to take on Connecticut's senior senator, Rob Simmons breezed past a bunch of kids sitting in the gym of the Regional Multicultural Magnet School in New London.
It wasn't a political appearance: Simmons was here to
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Hartford Courant
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Mr. Dodd's approval ratings have sunk to record lows, although there was a mild rally in the last Quinnipiac University poll. In one hypothetical match-up, the senator trailed former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons by a point.
But Mr. Dodd's flip-flop this
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Hartford Courant
http://feeds.courant.com/~r/Courant/Editorials/~3/oxNQLPVuYUo/hc-dodd-election-trouble.art.artmar22,0,3710554.story
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Simmons announced his plans to challenge Dodd this month. Although Dodd, D-Conn., trounced his last two opponents by 2-1 margins -- in a blue state that Obama won easily -- the senator suddenly finds himself in a statistical dead heat with Simmons,
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Riehl World View
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One of Sen. Christopher Dodd's potential Republican opponents, told FOXNews.com in an exclusive interview Saturday, that
he expected the five-term Connecticut Democrat to be weighed down next year in his re-election bid by the AIG bonus
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FOX News
http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~3/V0Pc4SqhBcE/senate-hopeful-blasts-dodd-aig-bonus-fiasco
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WASHINGTON --
Democrats may want to start thinking about a bailout for Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, whose political stock has slipped amid the financial meltdown.
As a five-term Democrat who blew out his last two opponents
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7Online.com
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=6720632&rss=rss-wabc-article-6720632
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Capitol Hill publication CQ dissected the re-election challenge faced by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and it may be an uphill battle for the Constitution State's longest serving senator.
A March 10 Quinnipiac University
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The Deal: Blogs
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Dodd Needs To Say He Won't Run In 2010
Rick Green
March 20, 2009
If Sen. Chris Dodd truly cares about President Obama's reform agenda, Connecticut and his party, he will gracefully step back and not run for re-election next year.
That might be the only
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Yid With Lid
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/03/hartford-courant-asks-chris-dodd-not.html
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SPEAKING OUT Senator Christopher J. Dodd, left, and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal at Trinity College in Hartford.
ON a 48-hour swing through Connecticut last weekend, Senator Christopher J. Dodd began acting like a candidate for re-election,
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/nyregion/connecticut/22polct.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Simmons, who is running against Dodd, is now speaking out.
Simmons 43
Dodd 42
"He says one thing one day, one thing another day,'' Simmons said.
"Where's the transparency in all of this? People have lost their savings, they've lost their jobs.
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MyDD
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...-- by focusing on the claim that Dodd is a flip flopper. That's the story local media is telling. This plus his Countrywide problem spells a really tough fight ahead for Dodd, although the good news is there's plenty of time for this to turn around. Still,...
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MyDD
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mydd/~3/FDQV50xdQ1U/253
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Chris Dodd’s got a problem or two … or three.
Former Connecticut Rep. Rob Simmons (R) and CNBC political and financial guru Larry Kudlow are drawing more and more attention as possible replacements for Sen. Dodd (D-Conn.). With the new confession from
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The Hill
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHillsPunditBlog/~3/pPbhyGkxgZI/
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Democrats just can’t seem to quit George W. Bush.
Four and a half months into the 2010 election cycle and two months after Bush yielded his presidency, the new party in charge clings to its favorite bogeyman as a campaign issue.
Bush’s unpopularity
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The Hill
http://thehill.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80724&Itemid=31
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For a Senate race now getting a lot of attention, former GOP congressman Rob Simmons’ campaign launch was awfully low-key.
To announce his campaign, Simmons e-mailed back an Associated Press reporter late last Sunday night that he was running, leaving
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0309/Simmons_lowkey_launch.html
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After picking up seats in both 2006 and 2008 by linking Republican candidates to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Democrats seem intent to find out whether that playbook will work one more time in 2010.
Even though Bush and Cheney have both been out of
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=ea739cd6886e9fb0fee1d205233f57bd
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Senator Chris Dodd's challenger, Rob Simmons, was just given a golden, golden issue to run on.
Who in their right mind would codify in law that bonus payments to executives at bailed-out companies could not be prohibited?
'(iii) The prohibition
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National Review Online
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjM0YTg5ZWVhZTk1NTFmMjI4NGFmZTMzMTEwMTk5MzM=
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Way back in my youth, I interviewed a young Connecticut Democratic congressman named Chris Dodd; to be precise, the date was Aug. 22, 1979. Dodd at the time was anxious to leave the House and move up to the Senate. (A year later, he would successfully
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Philly.com
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CONNECTICUT: The Wall Street Journal looks at how the now-vulnerable Sen. Chris Dodd is handling the AIG issue.
The DSCC fired off this statement in response to Rob Simmons’ declaration that he will run against Dodd: “Rob Simmons is no moderate – he
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MSNBC
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/17/1839048.aspx
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...But Nancy DiNardo, the state Democratic chairwoman, said that it was Simmons who helped create the current economic crisis. "Rob Simmons supported every failed Republican policy that was voted out in 2006 and 2008," DiNardo said in a statement. "The last thing...
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Hartford Courant
http://feeds.courant.com/~r/Courant/ConnecticutNews/~3/M23PuzmRAZI/hc-simmons0317.artmar17,0,2483601.story
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It's an argument that worked in 2006 — Simmons lost his re-election bid by 83 votes, largely due to his support of an unpopular war championed by an unpopular president.
But this time around, with Simmons taking on U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, Democrats
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Hartford Courant
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Town Hall
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/2d17f1ff-0e6e-4178-b690-7e7837520868
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Former Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT) has
announced that he is going to challenge Sen. Chris Dodd (D).
Simmons narrowly lost reelection to his House seat in 2006, but
held it for three terms and ran well ahead of George W. Bush to
knock off an
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American Spectator
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/03/16/challenging-chris-dodd
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Republicans smell blood in Connecticut, but can they overcome their Northeastern decline and a potentially contentious primary to defeat Sen. Chris Dodd?
Former Rep. Rob Simmons (R) entered the race against Dodd (D) on Sunday, giving Republicans
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The Hill
http://thehill.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80626&Itemid=31
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News broke over the weekend that former GOP Rep. Rob Simmons will challenge Sen. Chris Dodd (D) in Connecticut in 2010, and, with Dodd facing criticism for his allegedly shady/preferential mortgage treatment from Countrywide, that controversy looks to
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Marc Ambinder
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/03/a_trend_for_the_gop.php
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Former Rep. Rob Simmons will challenge embattled Sen. Chris Dodd next November, a recruiting success for national Republicans who believe that the Connecticut Democrat has badly imperiled his chances at reelection over the last several
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The Fix
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...other things -- a quote from the former congressman describing himself as a "big fan" of former president George W. Bush. "Rob Simmons is no moderate -- he was a staunch supporter of George Bush's failed economic policies and this race will be an opportunity...
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The Fix
http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=4b5d666a333aed17833fe7e1ed7b56a7
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Former Rep. Rob Simmons will challenge embattled Sen. Chris Dodd next November, a recruiting success for national Republicans who believe that the Connecticut Democrat has badly imperiled his chances at reelection over the last several
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The Washington Post
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Talk about a blast from the past.
In attacking newly-announced Connecticut Senate candidate Rob Simmons, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee invoked Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay and former President Bush to blame him for the woes of the Republican
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0309/A_blast_from_the_past.html
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