Another one bites the dust
Ted Stevens won't be able to burst into tears on the Senate floor over spending cuts now that he's been convicted of accepting illegal gifts.
WASHINGTON - Ted Stevens, a pillar of the Senate for 40 years and the face of Alaska politics almost since statehood, was convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges Monday - found guilty of ( Read more... )
WASHINGTON - Ted Stevens, a pillar of the Senate for 40 years and the face of Alaska politics almost since statehood, was convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges Monday - found guilty of ( Read more... )
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Amen.
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Bob Bird for the win (heck anyone but Begich at this point!
Congressman Don Young is next, and that will be even worse for me considering he's a family friend.
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One of the nation's best-known retired Army generals, Colin Powell, described Sen. Ted Stevens in court today as a "trusted individual" and a man with a "sterling" reputation.
"He was someone whose word you could rely on," said Powell, secretary of state in President Bush's first term, who self-deprecatingly described himself as someone who retired as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then "dabbled a bit in diplomacy."
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I take pride that we are not the party that circles the wagons around a crook like Stevens and defends him to the bitter end.
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first it was teh media that was up to it, then those lousy Dems in the senate... now I'm sure it's the crooked judges.
Being from Alaska and registered Republican I got a lot of "truth" from the GOP about Stevens and his case *rolleyes*
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Perhaps, in Alaska you kept a close eye on things. I just don't remember McConnell or any one else in a leadership position making those statements. *shrugs*
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