Greenwald: Chris Dodd shows how Washington works

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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/02/dodd/index.html
Over the last two years -- particularly during the debate over the financial reform bill -- Sen. Chris Dodd served on multiple occasions as chief spokesman for, and defender of, the interests of Wall Street and corporate America. That led to widespread speculation that the five-term Connecticut Senator, who announced that he would not seek re-election in 2010 in the wake of allegations of improper benefits from Countrywide Financial, was positioning himself for a lucrative post-Senate lobbying job -- i.e., peddling the influence and contacts he compiled over five decades in "public service."

Dodd responded to those suggestions by repeatedly and categorically insisting that he would not work as a lobbyist. In March of last year, he told The Hartford Courant that "he will not lobby, but, like Hagel and Nunn, he may teach." In an August article headlined "Dodd forswears a lobbying career," The Connecticut Mirror quoted him as saying: "No lobbying, no lobbying." That vow earned this praise from Public Citizen's Craig Holman: "That's excellent on Senator Dodd's part."

Wait for it...wait for it...

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/personnel-notes/146769-mpaa-names-former-sen-chris-dodd-chairman-a-ceo
Former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) will be Hollywood’s leading man in Washington, taking the most prestigious job on K Street.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) named Dodd chairman and CEO on Tuesday. He will start his new job on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.

But heading Hollywood’s lobbying arm could be problematic for the former senator, who accepted the kind of job he pledged not to take...

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1. Well at least it's not part of the military/industry complex.

nt

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2. A revolving door never really closes. n/t