The AIG bonus fiasco helped drag down Chris Dodd’s political fortunes. Lee Whitnum, a Greenwich Democrat running for U.S. Senate, is hoping it does the same to Richard Blumenthal’s ambitions.<\/p>\n
Whitnum says in a lengthy press release that Blumenthal failed to do his job “and as a result, the greatest financial debacle and bailout in this recession took place right here in Wilton, Connecticut and the AIG [Financial Products division] guys just got bonuses – again.”<\/p>\n
Whitnum cites an article in the “Hartford Current” about the bonuses and says it is “morally wrong to reward a man by making him the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate.”<\/p>\n
And speaking of morals, Whitnum compares Blumenthal to Eliot Spitzer. “If we’d had an Attorney General with a half of Spitzer’s fire, intellect and follow-through,” Whitnum said, “perhaps the AIG FP financial melt-down could have been prevented.”<\/p>\n
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