May 20, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Dominican Republic: Politics: Congress: Norwich Bulletin: Norwich Bulletin says: We're disappointed in Chris Dodd. Our senior U.S. senator seems to have been less-than engaged in the BRAC process until the list was revealed last week and the Groton Submarine Base was targeted for shutdown.
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May 20, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Dominican Republic: Politics: Congress: Norwich Bulletin: Norwich Bulletin says: We're disappointed in Chris Dodd. Our senior U.S. senator seems to have been less-than engaged in the BRAC process until the list was revealed last week and the Groton Submarine Base was targeted for shutdown.
Norwich Bulletin says: We're disappointed in Chris Dodd. Our senior U.S. senator seems to have been less-than engaged in the BRAC process until the list was revealed last week and the Groton Submarine Base was targeted for shutdown.
Norwich Bulletin says: We're disappointed in Chris Dodd. Our senior U.S. senator seems to have been less-than engaged in the BRAC process until the list was revealed last week and the Groton Submarine Base was targeted for shutdown.
Dodd must be strong voice for sub base
We're disappointed in Chris Dodd. Our senior U.S. senator seems to have been less-than engaged in the BRAC process until the list was revealed last week and the Groton Submarine Base was targeted for shutdown.
In October, Dodd met with the Norwich Bulletin's editorial board while he was campaigning for re-election. When asked about the pending Base Realignment and Closure process, Dodd said, "It's not going to be a problem."
It may not have seemed that way last fall, but Groton had been on the list before, in 1993, and it took furious lobbying by Dodd and others to get Groton off the list.
Dodd had met with top Navy and Pentagon officials before the BRAC list was released, although it seems he underestimated Groton's vulnerability.
When the Senate minority leader position opened up 11 years ago, Dodd ran for it and lost by a single vote to Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota.
In the most recent election, of Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Dodd said Reid "had the votes" before a vote was taken.
That may be, and it's academic now, but the Senate minority leader gets to appoint a member of the BRAC commission. Having served 24 years in the Senate, Dodd likely would have had a shot at that post if he had wanted it.
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While the BRAC process is just under way, and there is no telling exactly how it will play out, Groton probably would have been very well represented and spoken for had Dodd been able to make that appointment.
In his defense, Sen. Dodd was tied up as chairman of the U.S. Spain Council which met the same day that the BRAC list came out. General Dynamics, parent of sub builder Electric Boat, has business interests in Spain.
That meeting had been scheduled eight months earlier, so there was no way of knowing what other events of the day might be. And that day was Friday the 13th.
Getting on the BRAC list was very bad news. Dodd has promised that he'll be in Boston July 6 for BRAC regional hearing, and that's good.
Connecticut will need all its top guns on hand that day.
Originally published May 20, 2005
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