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  20     March 3, 2008 - 8:04pm | just_a_note

Please, PLEASE, PULEEZE

Oh PLEASE, let the next charges be filed against Frank! Please, please, please!

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  19     September 28, 2007 - 9:26pm | Stumpy1

The totality of the corruption

Every once in a while a writer up in Fairbanks publishes work that is so well written, and insightful, that it must be shared.

The Yates piece below is as good as the piece written by Lori Backes last year in which she first used the moniker, 'Corrupt Bastards Club', or CBC, to describe VECO's corruption of the Alaska Legislature.

VECO stench corrupts GOP
By DOUGLAS YATES

"A fetid smell circulates in the forest this time of year. Rotting vegetation and decaying mushrooms forecast the change in seasons. But there’s another odor slapping the faces of Alaskans these days. For many, it’s unthinkable, but as details emerge from the federal court house in Anchorage, it’s impossible to deny. It’s like finding a freezer full of salmon after the power’s been off for a week.

The spoiled legacy of Alaska’s Republican Party has stained the carpet and mold is climbing the walls. The entire building may need to be demolished if there’s any hope of recovery.

Here’s what we know. Until the FBI raided Juneau, the sellout of Alaska was a crime in progress. The state’s oil and fisheries resources, as well as our integrity and sovereignty, were being auctioned off by predatory capitalists and their hired stooges. The bribery conviction on Tuesday of Pete Kott, the former Speaker of the House, confirms what many have known for years.

VECO was an oil field contractor. Its former chairman, Bill Allen, and Rick Smith, his lieutenant, made more than $400,000 in payoffs to elected officials. Their testimony and FBI evidence has implicated many current and former state and federal legislators for accepting bribes and favors for official actions or access.

So far, they include: state Sen. John Cowdery, former state representatives Bruce Weyhrauch and Vic Kohring, and former state Sen. Ben Stevens.

Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens are under similar investigations. Another former legislator, Tom Anderson, was recently found guilty of accepting bribes. Anderson’s wife, state Sen. Lesil McGuire, is being investigated for conflict of interest in another matter. Randy Ruedrich, Republican Party chair, was fined for political organizing while working for the state.

The major conspiracy appears to subvert legislation to the benefit of Alaska’s big three oil companies, ConocoPhillips, Exxon and BP. In a phone call taped by the FBI, Allen and Jim Bowles, president of ConocoPhillips Alaska, talk about working behind the scenes to keep tax rates below a certain number.

Perhaps that’s why ConocoPhillips is running diversionary TV spots headlining the chump change it throws at Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge and Potter Marsh. “Environmentalists” greenwashing Big Oil’s white-collar crimes epitomize the depth of its influence.

Sen. Ted Stevens is the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, and fish rot from the head down. His careless lack of attention to the power of his office, his single-minded focus on grabbing money for Alaska while ignoring ethical standards, has attracted flies. It’s time to clean camp.

Who in their right mind would allow VECO to act as his agent on a home-construction project? It’s been an open secret for years that Allen’s money greased the skids in Juneau. Did Uncle Ted think we were all blind?

A senator with a grasp of his place in the arc of history would have used his current term to groom a replacement. But at 84, Stevens has no protégés because there is no accountability in the Republican Party.

It’s a free-for-all. Everyone is on their own; steal as much as you can carry. According to Allen, Ted’s son Ben took more than $240,000 of VECO money while serving in the Legislature. Largely unmentioned yet is the $900,000 funneled to the younger Stevens in fees for allocating federal grants to seafood companies. Father and son wallowed in a moral cesspool and thought it smelled like roses.

Not to be outdone, Sen. Lisa Murkowski showed her family colors with a sweetheart deal for prime Kenai River property. It was sold to her by Bob Penny, a wealthy developer with a stake in fisheries legislation. When it was made public, Lisa denied special advantage but was soon overcome with buyer’s remorse. She quickly dumped the property, but voters must wait until 2010 to express their regrets.

Rep. Don Young has been throwing federal transportation money around the country like a silage farmer spreading manure, apparently expecting a return on the investments. Young’s $10 million Florida highway earmark was rejected by locals, except for a nearby landowner who sent $40,000 to Don’s re-election campaign. With an investigation under way, Young is spending $250,000 for lawyers to shrink the stink.

Alaska’s Constitution is a model of open government, but that didn’t protect it from being sold down the river. Today’s Republican Party is a club of glad-handers, thieves and liars, people who appear sincere then stab Alaskans in the back. Voters and the press, however, can’t escape blame.

Malfeasance grows in a climate of apathy and weak journalism; it’s a cancer that undermines Alaska’s future. The cure is more sunlight."

Yates has made this work available for distribution. Copy/paste and email it to your friends.

This piece was also picked up and published by the News-Miner today, at the following link:

http://newsminer.com/2007/09/28/9086

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  18     September 28, 2007 - 8:45am | jewar79

The Murkiski -Clark pollster claims

First of all there are sevrial reasons to open an investigation under the entire Murkey administration period.We can only hopt that he and his are not allowed to just walk away from office in a very few short hours and never to be heard of until now ! think about that statement.We have heard excessive amount of news -information to be aware that his admi9n,has a lot of un answered questioins.We are 100% positive that an full investigatioin should be administered byt under the FBI,bacause every state investigation against the state or its peole will anways be tainted and in the state favor.As a 56 year citizen of Alaska ,we demand an full federal investigation be done ASAP.This guy came in here fromWA Dc and trashed every senior as his very first adminustrative act.

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  17     September 28, 2007 - 12:50am | pp05416

KYLE

Why is the link to the Article "Big oil fights change in tax" currently sending this message?
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This really worries me.

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  16     September 27, 2007 - 8:36pm | akallegro

Kyle

does ADN have any ongoing attempt to get a response from Jim Clark and Governor Murkowski regarding the Jim Bowles and Bill Allen recording?

Bowles reveals in that recording that he is privy to Clarks schedule as it pertains to the Legislature and PPT. Bowles states that Clark has informed Bowles that he has scheduled a meeting with Representative Kelly.

Bowles tells Allen regarding that meeting "if thats the only contact he's made then thats OK" and its "OK because he (Clark) felt that Harris had asked him to have that meeting".

Those quotes from the conversation establish that the Governors chief of staff was revealing to Bowles who he was contacting in the Legislature regarding PPT and in addition was assuring Bowles that he would not have additional contact with other legislators.

I would ask Clark:
Why was he sharing with the president of Conoco Phillips, information about who in the Legislature he was meeting with to discuss PPT, when they are one of the very company's PPT was going to affect? Also, why did Clark feel compelled to assure Bowles that he would not have any other contact with legislators regarding PPT?

I would also ask Murkowski if he was aware that his chief of staff was sharing this type of info with Bowles and making commitments to him regarding who he would and would not have meetings with.

Has anyone at ADN submitted the same line of questioning to Bowles?

Another nugget that is revealed in that same conversation? Bill Allen states that he is aware of what Rep. Kelly said to Clark during that meeting. The meeting happened the very morning the phone conversation was recorded so somebody was updating Allen very quickly.

Is ADN pursuing Kelly as to why Bill Allen would have that information? Allen doesn't make it clear if he got the info from Kelly or Clark. Perhaps there was someone else in the meeting?

Given the Ruedrich incidents and Clarks failure to respond then, this issue certainly seems like it warrants the ADN's close scrutiny. I hope there is someone working on it.

Relentlessly.

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  15     September 27, 2007 - 7:00pm | Natalie_0

Where I sit, Palin is not the worry right now

Unless Palin does something unethical and dishonest, or criminal, she will remain Governor until her term expires. We can't change that and we have to deal with it. Personally, I think her actions so far are uncomparable to those of her predecessor, as if to say, I think she's doing a fair job. As for Murkowski, you people had voted for him in the past, not me, so you need to lay in your own bed. I have a clean conscience about that, besides, its too late to do anything about M. He should have been removed from the position long before his term expired. But right now, we have to get this corruption mess cleaned up first before we can move forward, with our without Palin. What bothers me more than Palin is the fact that we have an unethical and corrupt DC Senator and the same for a DC Congressman, of which both have not been charged with anything even though testimony has come out in the trials that would dictate that some form of legal action is required and needs to be taken. To me, this is more troubling than anything going on with Palin.

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  14     September 27, 2007 - 6:39pm | BravoSierra

Murky and Clark are banished

Now get rid of this guy-quick
http://www.adn.com/front/story/5572779p-5504444c.html

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  13     September 27, 2007 - 6:36pm | leowassilie

I wonder

wow.
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Wow.
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WoW.
WOw.
WOW!

A man of many words.

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  12     September 27, 2007 - 3:57pm | windham

Pathological Liars

Jim Clark and Frank Murkowski are professional, pathological liars, always have been, always will be. Putting them under oath will make no difference. Dittman is obviously the truth-teller in this matter.

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  11     September 27, 2007 - 2:45pm | Stags_Leap

Palin-bots

the prom queen needs to start governing the state -and actually do something other than issuing press releases and blaming Frank for everything.

That's the downside to this entire scandal. Everyone is focused on the CBC and other investigations, and no one is paying attention to what the hell is happening in the Gov's mansion -or should I say in the Valley. The PPT is a fiasco, MatMaid is a joke, and AGIA is doomed to fail....

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