WTNH: Dodd woes continue with Irish cottage:

Senator Chris Dodd always likes to talk about his Irish roots – especially around Saint Patrick’s Day – but details about his purchase of a cottage in Ireland are coming back to haunt him.

This week’s Quinnpiac University Poll indicates Dodd may be a getting a chilly reception from voters here in Connecticut. . . . Now, free-lance columnist Kevin Rennie has published a report in the state’s largest newspaper connecting Dodd’s purchase of two-thirds interest in a cottage in Ireland at a bargain price, to a man Dodd helped with a presidential pardon.

“The guy he bought it from was the business partner of a man he had gotten a pardon for from Bill Clinton the year before,” Rennie said. “Senator Dodd had paid a lot less for that two-thirds interest than it was worth.”

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