Amen.
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted of seven corruption charges Monday in a trial that tainted the 40-year Senate career of Alaska’s political patriarch.
The verdict, coming just days before Election Day, adds further uncertainty to a closely watched Senate race. Democrats hope to seize the once reliably Republican seat as part of their bid for [...]
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Finding #1: “Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.”
ABC: Troopergate Report: Palin Abused Power
Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired her Public Safety Commissioner this July, a state investigation has concluded.
The Alaska legislature voted to [...]
I am shocked.
The McCain campaign told reporters the fees were irrelevant because Davis “separated from his consulting firm … in 2006,” according to the campaign’s Web site, and he stopped drawing a salary from it. In fact, however, when Davis joined the campaign in January 2007, he asked that his $20,000-a-month salary be paid directly [...]
That’s right, unsurprisingly John McCain’s campaign is lying to you again.
After this campaign is over there’s got to be some in depth examination of why John McCain so strongly desired to surround himself with lobbyists. The latest is William Timmons Sr., tapped to lead McCain’s transition team, who is a Freddie Mac lobbyist. God willing, this transition team will exist only in theory.
The lobbying firm [...]
That’s right, John McCain’s campaign manager was paid $2 million by Fannie Mae to specifically lobby John McCain. They were trying to fend off regulation and I guess they wanted to curry favor with the self-described “deregulator”.
Then he hired him as his campaign manager.
This must have been what the GOP conventioneers meant when they said drill, baby, drill.
As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy [...]
Sarah Palin fits right in with the other corrupt Washington Republicans.
Travel records from the governor’s office show that the state has spent at least $31,800 on dozens of airline tickets for the family, and more for meals and hotels.
Records show the family has traveled with Palin for events such as the Alaska Federation of Natives [...]
When you set yourself up as the maverickest maverick of ethics, you better hope you are squeaky clean. Along with her lies about the bridge to nowhere, looks like Palin took money from Alaskans she didn’t need.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 [...]
This sort of goes against the GOP/MSM insistence that Palin is a “maverick”.
GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin accepted at least $4,500 in campaign contributions in the same fundraising scheme at the center of a public corruption scandal that led to the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens.
The contributions, made during Palin’s failed 2002 bid to [...]
More of the same
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began building clout in her state’s political circles in part by serving as a director of an independent political group organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.
Palin’s name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the “Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.,” a 527 group [...]
Following in the footsteps of the national GOP, the Alaska Republican Party made a clear and decisive vote in favor of corruption by voting for Ted Stevens in the primary. With the corrupt Ted Stevens as the standard bearer for the Republican party, the distinction between him and Democrat Mark Begich are clear. Hopefully November [...]
The message:
“The old John McCain wouldn’t have allowed one of Jack Abramoff’s top cronies to raise money for him. But this time around, it’s clear that Senator McCain is willing to do whatever it takes to win–even if that means embracing President Bush’s policies, his tactics, and now his disgraced fundraisers. The American people [...]
Just another part of the mountain of Republican corruption that is turning off Alaska’s citizens
Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday revealed an audio recording that shows an aide pressuring the Public Safety Department to fire a state trooper embroiled in a custody battle with her sister.
Palin, who has previously said her administration didn’t exert pressure to [...]
My friends, that’s not change we can believe in.
Despite what appears to be a middle-class lifestyle, the couple has written $61,600 in checks to John McCain’s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain’s decision to endorse offshore oil drilling.
At a June fundraiser, the Rocchios joined top executives [...]
Ah, those Republicans strike again…
More details:
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate and one of the chamber’s most powerful members, was indicted Tuesday in Washington, a result of a years-long investigation into corruption in Alaska politics.
The seven-count indictment, charges Stevens with making false statements by failing to disclose things of value he [...]
John McCain can attack Barack Obama as a Marxist until the cows come home. I don’t know of a single Democrat/progressive who wouldn’t want DeLay, the most corrupt political leader in a generation, out there as a face for the Republican party and the campaign of John McCain. Tom DeLay forever!
John McCain is just more of the same Republican corruption America has been voting against.
According to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, McCain’s “finance co-chair Tom Loeffler['s] … lobbying firm has collected nearly $15 million from Saudi Arabia since 2002 and millions more from other foreign and corporate interests.” Another McCain aide, finance director Susan Nelson, was paid [...]
What. An. Idiotic. Tool.
I’ll tell my kids someday, “There was a period of about eight years when everyone at the most important jobs in our government were crazy, stupid, evil or a combination of the three. No, really. This recent bout of competence we’re going through was a rarity at the turn of the century. [...]
Add another to the list.
An aide to President Bush has resigned because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for a Cuban democracy organization.
Felipe Sixto was promoted on March 1 as a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs and stepped forward on March [...]
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Is this some kind of progress?
The former treasurer for the National Republican Congressional Committee transferred as much as $1 million in committee funds into his personal and business accounts, officials announced today, describing a scheme that could prove to be one of the largest campaign frauds in recent history.
For at least four [...]
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