Sen. Ted Stevens and colleagues yesterday introduced the U.S. Coast Guard budget bill for next year with some interesting items for Alaska’s 17th District, the nation’s largest USCG district by area.
These are from the senator’s press release:
Forward operating facility in the Aleutians. This provision would authorize the USCG to construct or lease a helicopter hangar facility in the Aleutian Islands-Bering Sea operating area. The facility would help reduce rescue response times by allowing the Coast Guard to stage assets closer to fishing grounds.
Small-vessel exemption from definition of fish-processing vessel. This provision would provide new opportunities to salmon fishermen in Alaska by allowing each vessel to process and send up to 5 metric tons of salmon to market per week.
Transfer of Storis. This provision would transfer the retired cutter Storis to the USCG Cutter Storis Museum and Education Center located in Juneau. The Storis has been stationed in Alaska since 1948 and will be able to remain in the state as a result of this provision.
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flag this »1 July 28, 2007 - 9:52am | staufen
Hallelujah!
... but why only 5 tons? Ted has a calculation for everything that ensures the coercive monopoly of processors, largely foreign-owned, will take the lion's share no matter what. This exemption should also state that any attempt by a processor to interfere with any fisherman doing on-board processing - through fleet loyalty or any other means, or lender liability etc. - will be chargeable with a felony punishable by up to 20 years and $500,000 fine. Then we'll see if this is more than CYA PR BS.
PS: will Ted still be in office when this bill moves?
flag this »July 28, 2007 - 11:20am | akwapsc@aol.com
Ted will be there
Will Ted be there when this bill moves?
What a bunch of horseshit.
I thought Taufen promised us a vacation.
Of course, how can an unemployed, failed processor ( actually Steve has worked for several foreign processors)
take a vacation when he has no job save for sweeping up the cellar at the Dochterman home in Kodiak.
Surprise, Steven, I found out how to do internet on my boat.
I presume that one of the Dochterman roommates that Taufen shares a home with is writing here.
Ted Stevens has done more for Alaskan fishermen, of which Groundswell is not, than any individual in Alaskan history.
Being the enemy of Ted Stevens makes you the enemy of Alaska, Mr Taufen and Mr. Dochterman.
Once the smoke clears from your stink bombs and the good Senator is finally exonerrated from the BS allegations that you freakshows throw out there, then you guys can pack up your circus show with your clowns and horseshit and move on to another state or country-- preferrably.
I hear Vic Smith has some room in his basement in Friday Harbor, Washington.
bobbyt
flag this »July 30, 2007 - 2:02pm | TruthforAlaska
BS artist Bobby "Horseshit" T
FBI, IRS searching Stevens' Girdwood house
Anchorage Daily News
Published: July 30, 2007
Last Modified: July 30, 2007 at 02:46 PM
Federal law enforcement agents are currently searching the Girdwood home of Alaska U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, an FBI agent said.
OOPS !!! "when the good Senator is finally exonerrated" Look at the headlines boy.
flag this »July 30, 2007 - 2:28pm | staufen
Scooped...
thanks to TruthforAlaska, for beating us to the punch on mentioning Girdwood... we couldn't be there because the famous kook blogger cellar in Kodiak was flooded, and we were using the paperwork from Icicle Seafoods new $900,000 fine today for pollution in order to soak up Bobby's diaper mess... What papers? His worthless Icicle Stock Certificates.
Dear Bobby - don't believe a word we are saying. Just turn on your TV - we know you will not watch CNN, so just turn to FOX - they're exposing Ted too.
What color do you want?... an Orange jumpsuit or the Anderson striped one? We think orange will go best with your ankle bracelet...
flag this »July 31, 2007 - 12:39am | akwapsc@aol.com
Ted is innocent
By the way...
But who is we-- you always say we-- you and your buddy shawn?
and weren't you supposed to go on vacation by the way.
we didn't miss you.
bobbyt
flag this »July 30, 2007 - 1:41pm | peter1
Friends again
It seems the freakshows just keep getting wider and ever more infamous. Just this month NPR and Bill Moyers(Texas liberal LBJ's PR man) spoke a few words about Ted, Don, fishy Alaska marketing boards, ear marks, buybacks, and bridges-to-nowhere that still threaten Alaska. If you like all this and can't wait to hear more, then log onto...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11989055
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07272007/transcript2.html
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07272007/watch.html
Ted and Don appear in the 7/27 PBS audio transcript at 5:20 and very end at 23:18. This should make everyone feel good and shake hands again!!
flag this »July 30, 2007 - 2:31pm | staufen
Spelling not your forte
Mr. "Junior" Thorstenson, when you conduct your spitting ad hominems, pls spell it correctly - Mr. Dochtermann - two n's & he's not picky but it's not Steven, it's Stephen. Shorter words must be easier for you.
Groundswell is right about the ridiculousnous of a 5 ton a day limit. Ted is making sure that real fishermen cannot profit from their own fish. A seiner like you should be the very first one to realize this. Yet you blab on like a child who wants to play with "stink bombs" and throw a cussing tantrum.
You sound really scared now. If you would calm down, you would realize that it is the federal department of Justice and nationwide FBI that are going after Kohring, Kott, Weyrauch, Young, both little caesar Stevenses, your fish marketing board waste, and VECO - not us.
If you have connected now to the internet from your old wooden boat, look at www-dot-TPMmuckraker.com, -DropDon.com, and Alaska's largest newspaper -adn.com and read up on who is really after your friends. And do not forget that Bill Allen of VECO is going to be telling all he knows, for many many years.
What I see is the national news is by the Wall Street Journal, the Roll Call magazine that every Congressman gets 4 days a week, and other major newspapers. Are you not aware of what that means young man? I don't think Ted will be exonerated, even after he is charged.
Are you happy with fish prices? We just returned from Bristol Bay where the governor you supported in the general election has also contradicted your UFA b-s, and wants more competition on the processing side. The government is investigating the large Japan company merger with the state investigating it too. So you are publicly saying that our governor is also talking a bunch of h-s, too.
Ted has done more TO Alaska, not for it. White collar crime is worse than mafia crime in the number of victims it takes. Political crime is often worse. But you know that and it just makes you very very mad that your heroes and close friends proved out to be political crooks. It definitely reflects directly on you. Your cussing and truly disturbed writing tells newspaper readers what you are, so please keep writing.
Everyone knows from your private email that it reflects your Alaska-Washington Purse Seiner Crap. And soon there will be an apartment available for you in Seward but it is a little cramped, like a jail cell. Until then please go home to Seattle where you lived a lot longer than in Alaska, cry under your momma's skirt, and leave it to the men of Alaska to clean up this corruption.
Enjoy your private pond (because as Peter1 says - it is a social welfare one).
flag this »July 31, 2007 - 12:52am | akwapsc@aol.com
Going to California with the Doctormans
Shawn or Stevo or We
Next time I go south to Seattle I'm going to keep going until I find that Doctorman home in Sunny California or wherever it is.
And price... it'd be alot worse than it is now if it were not for that Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board that you have repeatedly tried to etch out of existence.
You boys have no constructive dialogue to help us here in Alaska with any of our fish issues, other than to promise us $2 billion a year in ATP.
What's that cost us to get that $2 billion.
And I suppose we make the check out to Groundswell.
Is this like the Nigerian bank scam?
Maybe that's how you make your money, you scambags, but the rest of us are working to make the lot of life of commercial fishermen better, not just throwing rocks out of plate glass cellar windows.
And the AFMB..... 4 of the 11 board members from Kodiak. Isn't that where you claim to be from. What's up with that, with 3% of the state's population you get 37% of the board seats?
And so how did you like the function of the board most loaded with Kodiakans in the entire history of the state of Alaska?
Seems you didn't like the job we did?
What's the solution?
Well, we can make one of your neighbors the President. Oh we already did that.
So now what, put a couple of knowitall scumbags like you and Stevo on the board?
What's your solution? To dry up the $10 million a year that was holding up our marketing efforts....
You guys are losers.........that's all I have to say.
bobbyt
flag this »July 29, 2007 - 1:43pm | peter1
Paper tigers
Being the enemy of Stevens makes me the enemy of Alaska?? Alaska is just a mere whimper to the days of your great grandpappy, jr., a sick and dying memory. Your founders of Petersburg would have thrown up in their lutefisk if they'd known you were so servile to Ted's socialist welfare. Why is this so hard to understand?? The "rugged individualist" and the impotent politician???? Stop with the transparent kvetches about your "Alaskan independance" - its now known across the country what a social welfare cheat Ted is.
flag this »July 31, 2007 - 12:37am | akwapsc@aol.com
loserville
hey loser peter1.
go back to the june 25th blog and see what I really think of you.
if ted's so wrong and you are so right, sign up.
elections just a year or so away.
bobbyt
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