Dodd Denies Preferential Treatment by Controversial Mortgage Lender by
FOXNews.comTuesday, June 17, 2008 http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/17/dodd-denies-preferential-treatment-by-controversial-mortgage-lender/
“Sen. Chris Dodd on Tuesday denied any attempt
to seek preferential treatment in the refinancing of two mortgages with
Countrywide Financial Corp., while acknowledging that he was a VIP customer. But he said he didn’t
think that meant he would get special treatment.
Countrywide has been criticized by
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as contributing to the home
mortgage crisis. Late last week, Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking
Committee, and Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Budget
Committee, were singled out as getting low rate loans from the lender.
On Tuesday, Dodd, D-Conn., an Obama
supporter said the refinancing rates for his homes in Connecticut and
Washington, D.C. — at 4.25 percent and 4.5 percent — were within the range of
rates that were being offered to average customers at the time. He said he
spoke with no “higher-ups” at Countrywide, only loan officers, and he is not
personally connected to Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo. http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/17/dodd-denies-preferential-treatment-by-controversial-mortgage-lender/
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McCarthyism Revisited and Revised
and a Sentinel Set to Watch for Its Return in the Presidential Elections of
2008.
“Let us
not forget the Progressive
Caucus with the following names [Nancy Pelosi had to withdraw her
name from this organization for political reasons]:
Neil Abercrombie
(Hawaii), Tammy Baldwin
(Wisconsin), Xavier Becerra
(California),Madeleine Bordallo (Guam),
Corrine Brown (Florida), Sherrod
Brown (Ohio), Michael Capuano
(Massachusetts), Julia Carson
(Indiana), Donna Christian-Christensen
(Virgin Islands), William Lacy Clay, Jr.
(Missouri), John Conyers
(Michigan), Danny Davis (Illinois), Peter DeFazio (Oregon), Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut), Lane Evans (Illinois), Eni Faleomavaega (American Samoa), Sam Farr (California), Chaka Fattah (Pennsylvania), Bob Filner (California), Barney Frank (Massachusetts), Raul Grijalva (Arizona), Luis Gutierrez (Illinois), Maurice Hinchey (New York), Jesse Jackson, Jr. (Illinois), Sheila Jackson-Lee (Texas), Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Ohio), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (Michigan), Dennis Kucinich (Ohio),Tom Lantos
(California), John Lewis (Georgia), Ed Markey (Massachusetts),
Jim
McDermott (Washington), James P.
McGovern (Massachusetts), Cynthia McKinney
(Georgia), George Miller
(California), Gwen Moore
(Wisconsin), Jerry Nadler (New York),
Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia),
John Olver (Massachusetts), Major
Owens (New York), Ed Pastor
(Arizona), Donald Payne (New
Jersey), Bobby Rush (Illinois), Bernie Sanders (Vermont), Jan Schakowsky (Illinois), Jose Serrano (New York), Louise Slaughter (New York), Hilda Solis
(California), Pete Stark
(California), Bennie Thompson
(Mississippi), John F. Tierney
(Massachusetts), Tom Udall (New
Mexico), Nydia Velazquez (New York), Maxine Waters (California), Diane Watson (California), Mel Watt (North Carolina), Henry Waxman (California)