Justin Bernier, one of the GOP candidates running for Congress in the 5th Congressional District speaking to Goshen RTC:
“I am still running for Congress. I am not running for governor. I am not running for Senate.”
I’m so glad he clarified, because it’s been getting mighty confusing around here what with all the musical office seeking.
Meanwhile, there’s another potential GOP candidate for governor, according to the Hartford Courant – business executive R. Nelson “Oz” Griebel, CEO of the MetroHartford Alliance regional chamber of commerce.
“I’m certainly thinking about it,” Griebel, a Republican, said Thursday. “I’m talking to people, just trying to get the lay of the land.”
Griebel has apparently considered running before but Rell’s absence from the field makes the possibility more “intriguing”. He doesn’t plan to make a decision before the end of the year, according to the Courant.
I might have to break out the Ted Nugent Free for All video again soon…
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By the time Mr Griebel make’s a decision, his Republican playing field will largely be committed to either of the 2 major candidates,namely foley and Federle.Foley has superior DC contacts through himself and through his wife, who is the daughter of a former republican national party chair, with a load of high powered connections and contacts. My hunch is…and I think it is a fairly good hunch, is that Foley eventually becomes the leader of the pack and the way is cleared for him to be the endorsed candidate without a fight.
Welcome to the Fairy tale.
U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, the guy who is chiefly responsible, along with U.S. Rep Barney Franks, for destroying the U.S. Housing market, is teaming up with Chris Donovan, Connecticut’s House Speaker, who put together a budget half a million dollars in the red one month after it was passed, to convince outgoing Gov. Jodi Rell to pony up $25 million so that the state can receive from the Barack Obama administration, deeply in debt to the Chinese, part of a stimulus outlay to be used ferry unemployed people on a new and improved train line connecting Springfield and Hartford.
The Hartford Courant will do everything in its powere to facilitate this madness.
In the meantime, Connecticut’s economic roof is leaking buckets. Even the noses of Dodd and Donovan are wet with roof tar. Bits of shingle are swimming in their soup. The batting from the attic is hanging from the gaping ceiling. The couch where they both snooze together is green with mold.
But nevermind the roof. What the state really needs is a new car – preferably an eco-freindly hybrid. And buses, we need buses.
Ooops! Sorry, the budget is half a BILLION dollars in the red. My bad. Don’t mean to change the subject on you Sara. But, you know, ###!!!*&*!@
U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, the guy who is chiefly responsible, along with U.S. Rep Barney Franks, for destroying the U.S. Housing market…
Hyperbole much? If I had to pick only two villains I’d pick Alan Greenspan and Phil Gramm. Greenspan, as Fed Chair, who kept interest rates far too long for too long; Gramm for initiating the repeal of Glass-Steagall in the late 1990’s which might have kept a check on the outrageous lending practices. In the end though you could pick many, many others including Dodd, Franks, and the entire Congress. Home ownership has been a goal of Presidents as varied as FDR and Ronald Reagan, but the complete lack of restraint that began in the mid 90’s to the ultimate collapse in 2007 was completely irresponsible.
far too low for far too long…
Typo.
Chris Powell makes the connection between Dodd and Glass-Steagall here: http://donpesci.blogspot.com/2009/11/first-person-singular-interview-with.html
I also mentioned it here: http://donpesci.blogspot.com/2009/03/dodd-and-appearance-of-corruption.html
Bill B,
Can’t quibble with the rest of his post, can you?
Deregulation fit several agendas in the 90s. US banks were considered non-competitive with the largest internatonal banks in merger and acquisition deals and the seeds were sewn for too-big-to-fail through deregulation.
Extending mortgages to questionable credit risks was considered good for business and good as social welfare.
Accountants were given a hard time in the wake of the S&L mess in the 90s. RICO laws would now apply. The upshot is Anderson was dissolved in the wake of Enron’s failure. The downside: Congress got their victim and backed off. In this entire financial mess has any Congressman asked where the auditors were? What’s wrong with the current auditing rules and regs to allow this to happen? Lawsuits? Anything besides pandering?
Did Deloitte really do their job by issuing their first “questionable ongoing concern” letter for GM in MARCH 2009 when the stock was near worthless?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29525261/
I somewhat feel for the Democrats in Dodd’s case. Once they are commited to him all hell is going to break loose and the commercials will start running that go straight to the point.
Tommy is cute as the deaf, dumb and blind boy and we all like the Three Stooges doing the ’see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ routine. It’s not so cute in a Congressman. Uncle Buck would be more diligent.
Frankly, I don’t think he’s mentally competent. I’m happy he’s concerned about ATM fees.. Really I am. I think it’s something he can handle. Something he understands.
Can’t quibble with the rest of his post, can you?
Which? The stuff about leaking roofs?
Glass -Steigel has more to do with Greenspan,Gramm,Clinton and the Republican Party pushing it then Dodd ever did.My friend Don P is adrift here and so is Chris Powell.
Don….Don’t you think that Dodd’s recent poor polling numbers have more to do with his recent troubles then Glass-Steigel ? Few people are going to vote against Dodd for a legislative bill 10 years ago which was backed heavilly by a Democratic President and almost the entire Republican Senate.
Bruce,
I do. I was answering someone else specifically on G-S. The polling numbers are only indicative. There is some disagreement as to what they mean. Questions concernng whether Dodd will win or lose are premature. Powell is never wrong.
Bruce,
The piece about Dodd by Paul Bass of the New Haven Independent — http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/12/down_out.php — ran after your posting, so you could not have seen it at that time.
Here is the graph on Glass-Steagall:
“Dodd also noted that the Senate passed the Glass-Steagall change 98-2. He characterized the vote as well-intentioned, if ultimately misguided.
“‘We were naive to believe’ sufficient firewalls were in place to prevent conflicts of interest or rampant unsound lending practices at the new financial conglomerates, Dodd said. Then he placed more blame for the financial collapse for the federal government’s (read: Bush administration’s) failure to regulate the lenders and enforce underwriting standards.”
Sounds like a carefully guarded admission of regret to me.
The Housing collapse was brought about by a loosening of mortgage banking standards enforced by Frank and Dodd: They wanted people who could afford to have houses to have them without offering down payments or being able to pay monthly mortgages. The banking industry, the housing industry and the roulette wheel attendants on Wall Street were only too happy to oblige, As the election closes, Dodd will not to be able to escape that charge by fuzzy references to the Bush administration – especially if Peter Schiff doesn’t decide he wants to be governor.
It should read: They wanted people who could NOT afford to have houses to have them without offering down payments or being able to pay monthly mortgages.
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