Dodd’s Campaign Money Shift Raises Questions

October 26, 2008 | Jim Vicevich | |

A Senate investigation isn’t like a Countrywide mortgage: It’s expensive to prove there’s nothing there. Dodd has caught a lucky break, as senators often do. The Federal Elections Commission allows Dodd to use campaign funds from the Friends of Chris Dodd re-election committee to pay his legal and other expenses incurred in the ethics investigation. The law doesn’t allow Dodd to use his presidential campaign cash surplus to pay for his ethics investigation defense, but in September he moved $440,110 from the presidential committee to the Senate committee.

Read it all. The question is, why is it Kevin Rennie doing all the leg work? Where are the Courant reporters on this?

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

2 Comments

  1. Erik on October 27, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    Tell me again why we elect this phool. Look at the guy he looks like captain kangaroo with dyed eyebrows.



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