Chris Dodd Not Releasing Documents On His VIP Countrywide Loans
Sen. Christopher Dodd sounded like Dr. Seuss without the depth last week. “It is what it is,” declared Dodd, mistaking Hartford for Whoville, when he told The Courant’s Rick Green that he had no plans to release documents from his $800,000 in sweetheart mortgages from subprime titan Countrywide Financial.
“There is nothing to the story and I’m just not going to keep on repeating it,” pronounced Dodd, as he morphed into Yertle the Turtle. “‘You hush up your mouth!’ howled the mighty King Yertle. ‘You’ve no right to talk to the world’s highest turtle.’”
Dodd will serve the state green eggs and ham before he’ll honor his pledges to release the documents from deals that will save him tens of thousands of dollars over the terms of the loans. Nonsensical answers, however, won’t smother persistent, serious questions about Dodd’s abuse of his office.
Has anyone even bothered to ask Senator Kent Conrad for his documentation on the sweetheart mortgages for the dumpy apartment complex in Bismarck he claims as his “primary residence” and the $3.1 million Delaware beach house where he really lives?
It’d be interesting if someone did ask him. Like, I don’t know, an enterprising reporter from a North Dakota media outlet? Oh yeah. They forgot about this story once the Fargo Forum editorial board let Conrad off the hook.
Memo to North Dakota journalists: What you’re reading above is what good, independent journalism looks like.
