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GOP Scandal Of The Day

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been convicted of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor. The Senate's longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial documents. And you thought Sarah Palin was the ...

Palin’s Ethics Record Is Embarassing

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

_She pummeled opponents for giving oil companies and other businesses too much control of state government. Yet she appointed the founder of an engineering firm that received $6.8 million in state business as head of the transportation department. _She has accepted dozens of gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars since ...

In Reality, Palin Loves Earmarks

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

The McCain campaign boasts of her pork-cutting, but up close it looks more like a trim. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. She boasts of rejecting plans to build the notorious ...

You Get What You Vote For…

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

...or what's the matter with Alaskan voters? Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska won the Republican primary in his home state on Tuesday, soundly defeating six Republican challengers less than a month after he was indicted by a federal grand jury for concealing more than $250,000 in gifts from an oil services ...