{"id":1501,"date":"2010-01-06T05:43:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T05:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2010-01-06T05:43:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T05:43:22","slug":"chris_dodd_is_retiring_from_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"Chris Dodd Is Retiring From The Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/senate\/chris-dodd-to-step-aside.html\">Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;reported yesterday that Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut will retire after serving his present term (and after receiving $100 million in pork in the current Senate healthcare bill).<\/p>\n<p>The news that Senator Dodd is retiring is not a surprise.&nbsp; The polls in Connecticut indicated that he would not be re-elected.&nbsp; As Senator Dodd&#8217;s retirement was announced yesterday, Senator, Senator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/senate\/dorgan-to-retire.html\"><font color=\"#0c4790\">Byron Dorgan <\/font><\/strong><font color=\"#0c4790\">(D-N.D.)&nbsp;<\/font><\/a>&nbsp;also announced that he would not seek re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is expected to run for Chris Dodd&#8217;s seat, and he should be able to keep the seat in Democrat hands.&nbsp; Representative Chris Murphy is expected to challenge Senator Joe Lieberman for his seat in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Dodd&#8217;s approval ratings began to fall when it was disclosed that he had been given a special deal from Countrywide Mortgage at the time when he was on the committee that oversaw the mortgage industry.&nbsp; If he had not retired, he probably would have been defeated in the coming election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&nbsp;reported yesterday that Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut will retire after serving his present term (and after receiving $100 million in pork in the current Senate healthcare bill). The news that Senator Dodd is retiring is not a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}