Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is due in federal court to answer charges that he is just one more Republican liar Legislator Most Likely in Need of a TrackerPal.
The senator is accused of concealing more than $250,000 in gifts and home remodeling services he received from VECO Corp., a once powerful contracting firm. Two top VECO executives pals pled guilty to bribing state lawmakers and gave up their home boy, Stevens in the process.
Couldn't happen to a better guy.
Now. If the feds could just nail Orrin Hatch...
...I'd be one happy Frog.
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I wonder if the bridge will be renamed.. Deep-pockets causeway, Oil-slick passover, or the Payola Overpass...
Since you brought up Orrin, let's remember his unforgettable quote:
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
-- Orrin Hatch, quoted from David Milsted, The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations (1999)
did he REALLY get elected, or was he asked to go to Washington just to get him out of Utah?
Do they ever rename "stuff" after these guys bring disgrace to the areas they represent? I know the Kutun boat ramp in Miami was never renamed after his "child abuse" conviction........
Follow the Hatch money trail and I bet we would learn his constituency paid him to get out of Utah....he's another one that I bet has lots of junk in his trunk!
Any news past the indictment? Cannot wait to see what he does on this. Thinking this is gonna be hushed in a few weeks....
Wouldn't be surprised. I'm certain old Ted can use his campaign funding to match the feds legal defense dollar to dollar.
By the way, Blogger has locked Smashed Frog to new posts...some sort of spamming event. So I and hundreds of other locked out bloggers, have migrated over to Word Press to mirror post.
Here's the link:
Smashed Frog.
Could be a couple of days or weeks to be granted the keys back to the blogging kingdom.
Apparently, each site must be eye-balled by a human....
What do I think is really going on? Blogger's looking for porn sites while casting the blame on spam robots.....
But don't fret. We blog on!
(I just feel sorry for those trying to run a business on Blogger).
Hey Sunny.
I know you get notes from everyone, but wanted to tell you myself. Thanks for the work and love you have for the cause.
One day, there might be someone who actually listens, but I think though my days will have long passed before then.
Oh no, I hope you are so wrong about your days on this incredibly insane planet! I have this fantastic vision of one helluva party where we all come together in celebration once we kick these laws to the curb!
I mean think of how easy it would be to send out invitations...all we have to do is look online for addresses....:)
Ha! I know that made you laugh!
Thanks for your kind words...sometimes, it does feel like we are all beating our head against the wall, but we just cannot give up.
Take care and feel free to send me a note anytime....
it made me laugh.. 8)
Good! Don't let the man get you down...:)
DALLAS -- A Texas congressman is defending a fundraiser held last year at a burlesque show in Las Vegas that claims to put the 'tease' back into the Strip.
A spokesman for Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas, told the Dallas Morning News that the March 2007 party at Forty Deuce, a nightclub and burlesque show at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, "was at a PG-13 venue."
"It's a retro club that's as risque as a 1940s film," said Guy Harrison, the chief of staff for the Dallas Republican.
But conservative activists claim to be offended by the fundraiser for Sessions' political action committee, People for Enterprise Trade and Economic Growth. Cathie Adams, president of the Texas Eagle Forum, said she was shocked to hear the location of the fundraiser.
"I don't think that it's representative of the constituents of the district," Adams said.
At Forty Deuce, "sensual dancers slowly slink down the stairs to the stage and lean out over the crowd," according to the club's Web site. "Jaws drop and drinks are ignored as the tempo picks up and the dancer steps up, shedding boa, gown and gloves towards the electrifying finale."
Darlene Ewing, chairwoman of the Dallas County Democratic Party, told the newspaper that the Forty Deuce fundraiser might help Sessions' image.
"He's such a boring guy that a little pizazz may help him," Ewing said. "I thought they were the party of family values, but they are having fundraisers at burlesque shows."
Sessions has organized Las Vegas fundraisers for his political action committee for four years, including one this year at the 40/40 club owned by rapper Jay-Z.
Gag. Give this guy an ankle bracelet just because he made my stomach turn.
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