SIMMONS TO RUN AGAINST CHRIS DODD: “Former Republican Rep. Rob Simmons plans to run against Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd. . . . Dodd’s fifth term ends next year, and he plans to run for a sixth. He’s currently under investigation by a Senate ethics panel for mortgages he got from Countrywide Financial Corp. when he refinanced his Washington and East Haddam, Conn., homes in 2003.”