This afternoon, President Obama and Connecticut’s Senior U.S. Senator Chris Dodd made a brief tour of Eastern Land Management. Veteran political reporter Ted Mann of TheDay has already filed several press pool reports. In his first report, he notes that “This is likely the first campaign appearance of the 2010 midterm season, for either Dodd or POTUS, with the term ‘grease guns’ stenciled on the wall.”

He leads his second pool report off with the observation that “Eastern Land Management caught the eye of federal officials after negotiating a loan through the Small Business Administration to buy land for a new headquarters in Stamford”. It provides an interesting to an OpEd in USA Today a month ago by New Hampshire U.S. Senate Candidate Paul Hodes who wrote that TARP was a flop because the money went to big banks instead of Main Street families and businesses.

Mr. Mann’s third pool report notes that President Obama and Sen. Dodd have now headed off to the Dodd fundraiser at the Stamford Marriott.