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2008-07-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Ted Stevens Indicted for Allegedly Making False Statements

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Posted by Fred 2008-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Question -- and maybe at work tomorrow, I might attempt to Google this...... on my drive home, radio on a station that had Fox 5:00 news... this was announced with the "This is the 13th Republican that has been indicted."

Now..... question.... how many Demo's have been indicted? 'Course, that's prolly a foolish question..... as Demo's don't get indicted.... William Thomas Jefferson anyone?

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2008-07-30 00:27|| 2008-07-30 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 This guy is a crapweasel. He's dirty and a porker.

He needs to win his primary and then resign so that the state GOP in Alaska can appoint his successor, and also have the same person run as the candidate.

Parnell woudl be ideal -a double switch if he beats Don Young (who is also probably going to be indicted).

Parnhell becomes senate, they find someone else to run for congress.

Its a shame when a GOP guy gets indicted, he is pushed to resign, yet Jefferson (D-LA), with money in the freezer, is still in there with no questions at all for the Dems.

Talk about a double standard.

This guy is emblematic of the rot that has destroyed the top of the GOP in the past 8 years.

To the GOP leadership: Clean house and get the hell out of the way. Or the voters will do it for you - and damage the country with the idiot Dems that are getting in.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-30 01:39|| 2008-07-30 01:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Another "lying to investigators" case, ala Martha Stewart. I don't doubt that Stevens is a corrupt POS, but it seems that when approached by a "federal investigator," one should say "I'd hate for anything I say to be construed as a lie, so I'd better not say anything at all until my legal counsel is present." And then tell the truth when the lawyer gets there...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-07-30 08:43|| 2008-07-30 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 resign, TED!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-30 08:48|| 2008-07-30 08:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Cut your own throats. The Donks aren't going to resign. To paraphrase Rummy, you go to Congress with the people you got. Your choice of perfection and Donk control or deal with your own crooks.

The Trunk party only pays the price because they have a large following that will stay at home if the candidate isn't cleaner than Caesar's wife. The Donks don't care and in practice promote crooks. That's why the Donks got control of Congress. And they will keep control of Congress. You have a choice of theoretical and being out of power or practical and be in power. The Donks have it figured out. I don't like it, but I rather deal with reality than be repeatedly burned by the Donks in power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-30 08:59|| 2008-07-30 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Proc, the problem is if he continues to run for re-election he will LOSE that senate seat, and we will lost mthe margin for serving as a brake on the Dem house.

He needs to win his primary, then resign, immediately after that.

That way the GOP in Alaska can ppoint a successor to serve out the term, and also run as the candidate against a fairly popular Dem Mayor.

Lt Gov Parnell woudl be ideal, but he's already running against Young in the primary for the house seat.

Best scenario: Parnell defeats Young, Stevens wins and resigns. Gov Palin appoints Parnell as Senator (tem), and the state GOP puts him as the Senate Candidate, and chooses a strong candidate for the House seat (to replace Parnell).

THat way you have a guy that will be a very good senator, will serve Alaska well, and will not tip power further to the Harry Reid and his leftists in the senate, and have a fair chance at being competitivce in the house race.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-30 13:07|| 2008-07-30 13:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Where's Alaska Paul, see what the locals think?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-30 13:08|| 2008-07-30 13:08|| Front Page Top

#8 on the road, last call I had from him Monday night...Fairbanks?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-30 21:45|| 2008-07-30 21:45|| Front Page Top

#9 The news in this morning's local paper suggested that Stevens was the recipient of quite a bit of "volunteer" labor from the same people he later sent work to. He doubled the size of his house without paying a penny to anyone. He's also done a number of other outright felonious things that he's finally being called for.

Stevens is crooked, and deserves the sack. Expect to see a lot of Republicans accused of things, much of which they haven't done, as part of the Democratic Party's attempt to create a veto-proof Congress. At the same time, the Democratic leadership is fighting tooth and toenail to keep the two dozen or so crooks they have in the House and Senate from being charged with the crimes they've committed. If you or I did that, it would be called "obstruction of justice". With the Democrats, it's business as usual. The only way we'd ever get rid of some of these Democratic politicians would be to shoot 'em. Unfortunately, most Republicans are too ethical to even THINK of doing that, so the United States continues its swan dive into oblivion.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-07-30 22:27|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-30 22:27|| Front Page Top

#10 My RB pager went off, so here I is. Now, my 2 cents:

I heard an interview with Dave Cuddy (IIRC) last night on KBYR on the way up to Fairbanks on the highway. Cuddy is running in the primary against Uncle Ted. His main item that he is running on is that we have some very serious systemic problems in the nation that need fixing. Political pork barelling, i.e., business as usual is a dead end behavior, because we are going broke, and people like China are holding our paper. If we do not fix our national problems, we won't have a country.
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Mother MacCree! That is exactly what we want to hear!!! If he is true to his word. That is EXACTLY what this country needs.

IMHO, Uncle Ted needs to withdraw from the race and stay in office while he sorts out his 7 count indictment. If Uncle Ted happens to win the primary, he will be up against our illustrious Anchorage mayor Mark Begich, a tax and spend dem. So the smart thing is to get out of the race with the heavy cloud over his head, for the good of the party and the state. Again, IMHO.

One of the big things in Uncle Ted's indictment is that he received $250,000 work of home improvements to his place at Girdwood, Alaska, without reimbursement or reporting these improvements. The so-called gifts were from VECO, the oilfield services company headed by the convicted Bill Allen, and others, who made deals with federal prosecutors to save theirs and their family's a$$es. VECO has now been sold to CH2M Hill.

So there is my report.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Fairbanks">Alaska Paul in Fairbanks 2008-07-30 22:29|| 2008-07-30 22:29|| Front Page Top

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