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Happy Anniversary, Monumental Alaska FBI Raid
Get the party horns out! Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the FBI's raid on the offices of six Alaska state legislators (including Ben Stevens'), Veco and other undisclosed locations. Sadly, none of the "Corrupt Bastard Club" paraphernalia has surfaced on Ebay.
KTUU reports that the raid marked a public turning-point. Gov. Sarah Palin (R), for instance, ousted Gov. Frank Murkowski last year in the primary and went on to win the general election on a campaign touting ethics reform.
"It was a manifestation of the need for the ethics reform that so many Alaskans were craving and were calling for anyway," Palin said.
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Comments (5)
PalmerBuyer wrote on August 31, 2007 6:42 PM:The raid was not the only reason Murkowski was defeated.
The fact that he was an arrogant, bullying, egotistical, out of touch, 'do as I say, not as I do' type person might have had something to do with it.
He bought the Governor's office a jet, even after the people said NO, and the legislature said NO. (He said prisoners could use it on the 'off' time -- and even used it to leave the state when he was defeated!!! Real class, NOT. The shame is that he doesn't feel any shame.
He originally tried to buy the plane with FEDERAL Homeland Security money and had trouble understanding the word NO. And the deal he made was a sweetheart deal for the guy he bought it from. It cost WE ALASKANS a lot of money just to get out of the deal. No profit; lots of loss.
In a contest with one of the radio stations it was nicknamed the 'BALD EGO".
He appointed his own daughter to his old senate seat like it was part of the family inheritance.
We couldn't WAIT for the door to hit his butt on the way out. His years as a Senator protected him from immediate criticism of his actions -- how could we question when he was KING and was therefore always RIGHT. He didn't have a clue and was too dumb or oblivious to know it.
Only reason to miss him? The political cartoons aren't nearly as funny. BUT, it is now STEVENS' turn in the hot seat. We're tired of his (father AND son) arrogance and deceit. RUN while you can little man. The new theme song should be "They're coming to take me away, oh my......." Can hardly wait until the indictments. THE HORNS WILL REALLY TOOT THEN!!!
HarpboyAK wrote on August 31, 2007 6:55 PM:The rumor here in Juneau after lunch time today is that the Stevens indictment(s) will all hit the fan next week when the Kott & Weyrauch trials start.
Sounds like lawyer conjecturing to me --- Friday is Juneau Bar luncheon day. The thinking is that they Feds will have to make a lot of Stevens-related evidence public once the trials start.
Security code "adjust", which is what will happen to Totally Tubular Ted's attitude when he and Ben are doing the perp walk for the TV cameras.
kazoom wrote on August 31, 2007 7:55 PM:My memory could be failing me, but didn't the primary where Frank lost happen before the FBI raid?
Anonymous wrote on September 1, 2007 12:36 AM:Frank "the bank" signed the law that the legislature passed but Knowles vetoed exempting fish processors from paying minimum wage. Actually it allowed them to deduct room and board in cannery bunkhouses but put no limits on what could be charged for these.
The beauty of it was the benificiaries were out of state or foriegn owned corps.
Palin just sold the jet or maybe some of our statesmen could inaugurate the prisoner flight option.
Anonymous wrote on September 2, 2007 12:06 PM:ADN and KTUU, two leading local media outfits, celebrates with NO investigation NO digging No follow up to 30+ years of corruption
Nothing!
Thanks TPM for your service to the Greatland!