Another Fine, Upstanding Family Values Republican
Yes, it’s Ted Stevens. the long-time Alaska senator who is indicted on charges he accepted a quarter of million dollars in gifts from oil contractors. Stevens also happens to be one of the more vocal advocates of drilling in protected areas.
The Justice Department on Tuesday accused Stevens of accepting expensive work on his home in Girdwood, Alaska, a ski resort town outside Anchorage, from VECO and its executives. VECO normally builds oil processing equipment and pipelines, but its employees helped do the work on Stevens’ home.
Prosecutors said that work included a new first floor, garage, wraparound deck, plumbing and electrical wiring. He also is accused of accepting from VECO a gas grill, furniture and tools, and of failing to report swapping an old Ford for a new Land Rover for his daughter Lily.
From May 1999 to August 2007, prosecutors said, the senator concealed “his continuing receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of things of value from a private corporation.”
Stevens says he is innocent and vows to fight these charges. And Steve Benen mentions that Stevens is also under investigation because of a series of earmarks he pushed through Congress.
I’m not a Stevens fan, but what do the charges have to do with “Family Values?”
July 30th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Ted Stevens did nothing wrong. He’s a Republican isn’t he? That’s wrong…
July 30th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Experimentation time.
July 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
test 1
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2
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3
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done
July 30th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
“The Internet is a series of tubes.” Ted Stevens
July 30th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
And you need to surf them, and just keep livin’
July 30th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
So Republicans are hypocrites because we have family values? Liberals are not because they admit to being without any extablished set of values? its all make it up as you go along?
thats what makes being a liberal fun, huh everyone (who is a liberal)?
What ever happened to Sandy (Ham) Berger who stuffed top secret documents into his pants relating to how the Clintons bungled 911 intelligence?
July 30th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Actually, it looks like most of the “core values” are primarily neurological.
July 30th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
An aside. Do you know what yesterday was?
July 30th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
What’s the weather like in your world Bradley?
July 30th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
it was my birthday! yay me. whoo hooo
July 30th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Happy birthday W F G!
Your old!
July 30th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Yes I is.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
And thanks.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Senator Stevens had the VECO man buy his daughter a new Land Rover. It doesn’t get any more “family values” than that.
It’s not like Stevens had the oil man buy his mistress a new car. THAT would have made Ted a hypocrite.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
A couple of comments come to mind here: When Elliot Spitzer had his problems did anyone in the media mention anything about “family values” for Democrats? I guess Democrats are exempt from values.
And: Since Sen. Stevens has been indicted, where is the indictment for Sen. Diane Finstein of California? While she was chairman or senior rep. on the defense appropriations committee, her husband’s company received over $50 million dollars in contracts from that same committee! Just a small conflict of interest. Do you suppose her family received some benefit from that $50 million? Where is the indictment? Oh, I forgot Democrats have no values to indict.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Don:
The democrats and liberals never advocated “family values”. It they constantly proclaimed that they’re the “family values” party, then I’d be concerned. But they don’t. That’s why we didn’t care when the National Enquirer ran the John Edwards cheating scandal.
We pretty much don’t care what they do in their private lives, as long as it doesn’t affect the constituents (like Rudy G using taxpayer’s money to cart his mistriss’ ass around town).
July 30th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
And of course King from NY giving all those millions of our tax dollars to his wife who works for the airport, JFK I think?
July 30th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Happy belated birthday WFG
July 30th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Thanks.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:46 am
k, so how did you change your thingy?
July 31st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Change what thingy?
July 31st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
(showing my lack of computer knowledge)
your quilt square picture thingy
July 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Oh, use a different email address in your posts. Do you have an account with wordpress?
July 31st, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Incase you do, go here and you can read my explanation to Michael.
http://michaelgoonan.com/?p=12#comments
July 31st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
oh, and happy birthday!
No, I don’t have a wordpress acct.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
nah, I like the old one better
July 31st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Thanks, and you’re welcome.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
where are my manners? thank YOU!
July 31st, 2008 at 9:06 pm