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October 27, 2008 11:04 PM UTC

Breaking--Ted Stevens Guilty on all counts

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  • by: Danny the Red (hair)

(Wow, filibuster proof Senate??? – promoted by DavidThi808)

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.

The verdict throws the upcoming election into disarray. Stevens is fighting off a challenge from Democrat Mark Begich and must now either drop out or continue campaigning as a convicted felon.

The trial hinged on the testimony of Stevens’ longtime friend, who testified that his employees dramatically remodeled the senator’s home.

Stevens faces up to five years in prison on each count but, under federal sentencing guidelines, will likely receive much less prison time, if any

http://www.time.com/time/polit…

That’s 1 on our march to 60.

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56 thoughts on “Breaking–Ted Stevens Guilty on all counts”

  1. When you only have 7 news cycles left in an anti-Republican year, you have a senator convicted of a felony (and a felony involving dishonesty) to take over at least one of them?  Some times you just can’t catch a break.

      1. Inside dealing political leader is outed. Now they need to hang everyone of the business cronies involved.

        Why is the Denver Chamber and Governor of Colorado against Clean Government?

        1. The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree.

          In court records unsealed Monday, agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads.

          http://www.kansascity.com/445/…

        2. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…

          Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville field office for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the two men planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.

          So that’s where 102 come from. So now we need to figure out why 88 and 14 are significant. I used to follow up on these assholes but I never heard about those numbers.

          1. 88 is “Heil Hitler”, since H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.  I must have read that in some article about skinheads or neo-Nazis.  I don’t know where the 14 comes from.

  2. While it is true Alaskans could elect Mark Begich to the US Senate due to this pittiful politician violating the law…there are several scenerios to unfold here.

    1.) Alaskans could elect Sen. Ted Stevens to the US Senate for another term. Upon his reelection and sentencing, Alaska’s Governor, by law, can appoint a replacement.

    2.) Alaska’s Governor is Sarah Palin. If Sarah Palin, a big if, wins the Vice Presidency, she would still be able to appoint a replacement of Stevens if he steps down after the election. Otherwise, after her swearing in, it would fall under the new Governor. But, here is where it gets complicated.

    3.) Her (Governor Palin) replacement of Senator Stevens? Lt. Governor Sean Parnell, who narrowly lost to sitting and under investigation himself, Don Young.

    4.) So, who would be Governor…their Attorney General Talis Colberg, until a special election is held for Governor.

    5.) Alaskans are notorius of standing behind their “Unlce Teddy.” He brought plenty of pork to Alaska and has their major airport named after him.

    6.) Or they elect Mark Begich and all of this is moot.

  3. Keep in mind that voters could re-elect Ted Stevens anyway.

    While this seems foolish, if you are a Republican in Alaska, it may be wise.  Stevens, once re-elected, could resign, and his appointment would be picked by none other than Sarah Palin.

    I expect to see “A Vote For Stevens Is A Vote For Palin” stickers springing up across Alaska any minute now.

      2. the Gov can appoint a replacement, but a special election must be called 60 to 90 days after the vacancy occurs.

        So, anyone who gets appointed would only get to serve until a special election, not until the next general election, as I think the law was before 2004.

  4. http://www.adn.com

    “Now, voters will decide whether Stevens, who has represented the state in the U.S. Senate since 1968 and before that helped usher in statehood for Alaska, should continue to serve in the Senate. For the first time in his career, Stevens faces a competitive re-election fight against Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, a Democrat.

    Stevens, who was indicted in late July, sought an early trial date, gambling he would face voters as an innocent man.

    Stevens faces up to five years in prison on each count when he is sentenced Jan. 26, but under federal sentencing guidelines, he is likely to receive much less prison time, if any.

    The guilty verdict will complicate not only his re-election bid but also the remainder of his term in the Senate. His colleagues have the option — never actually exercised — of voting to expel him before his term ends in January. Four U.S. senators have been convicted of crimes, historians note, but not one has ever received a presidential pardon.”

    1. The one I remember was Adam Clayton Powell of New York.  IIRC, the House expelled him a couple of times and his district reelected him.

      My memory is a bit faulty, so it may not have been more than once, but I seem to remember that it was.

      1. I think he’s still in jail, so no re-election bid.

        Also, the senate has expelled members, just not since the Civil War.  There have been several attempts, however, most resign before the vote.

    3.    He was a Senator from N.J. who was charged and convicted in the Abscam investigation.  I don’t recall whether he resigned was expelled, but he left before his term ended and following a criminal conviction.

      1. I found his obit.

        Williams was indicted in 1980 and convicted in 1981 on nine counts of bribery and conspiracy for promising to use his office to further a business venture in which he had a hidden interest. Others convicted in the Abscam probe included six U.S. representatives.

        Claiming he was a victim of FBI misconduct, Williams fought expulsion efforts but eventually resigned from the Senate in 1982, the year before his term would have ended. If he had been expelled, it would have been the first expulsion from the Senate since the Civil War.

        Sounds like a winner.

        http://archives.cnn.com/2001/A…

    1. the best thing about this is how it redistributes wealth back to us other 49 staters.  What Stevens (and Young but much less so, and mostly because he’s been Chair of T&I) has been able to do is one of the sickest things about the logistics of our democracy

      1.    The Dems need a net gain of ten from where they stand right now.

          What would be really funny is if Lieberman officially become a Repub and freshly re-elected Susan Collins becomes a Dem.  They can swap chair and ranking minority posts on Homeland Security Committee.

        1. And as much as I would love to have her as a Democrat (which in today’s context she defacto is) she is the kind of Republican the party needs to get its bearings back.  

          As is the case with many others on this board, I believe in a two-party system and want a strong and viable Democratic Party and a strong and viable Republican party.  Two parties that don’t disagree about where we are going but how we are to get there.

          Unfortunately, as was the case with Lincoln Chaffee, she may be an endangered species.  I actually hope she gets re-elected, despite the fact that they may leave the Dems short of 60.  However, on key votes to end cloture, where progressive issues may be in play, I wouldn’t count on all Dems to vote for cloture and all Republicans (ala Susan Collins) to vote against.

          As I said, on many issues that matter to me, I think Collins may be a more reliable vote for cloture than Lieberman (or other Dem Senators who shall remain unnamed).

      2. Why won’t you disclose who’s funneling money to support Amendment 54? Much like Ted Stevens, you all are hiding the special interest groups that are trying to take advantage of our political process

        Clean Government Colorado, the political committee supporting Amendment 54, has raised more than $1.5 million dollars. At least 90 percent of that money has come from the nonprofit organization Colorado At Its Best, created by Institute fellow Dennis Pohill in 2001 and directed by New York libertarian activist and real-estate developer Howard Rich, according to documents filed with the secretary of state’s office.

        Because Colorado At Its Best is a nonprofit, it is not required to release the names of its contributors, meaning that the ‘clean’ campaign has been funded primarily from donors who are anonymous.

        The pro-Amendment 54 campaign is correct in stating that unions have spent millions in Colorado, including funds that came from out-of-state labor groups and other national union affiliates. But the difference is that members of the public can see exactly where the union money is coming from, and in the example of Colorado’s ‘clean team, that’s just not the case.

        Talk about shady and unethical politics at its worst.

        1. better yet, have the UFCW lawyer send him a racist email.

          just because unions got into an unholy alliance with the denver chamber doesnt mean you have to vote to protect business.

          54 wont do a thing to the amount of money unions plow into colorado elections.

          wake up … 54 makes sole source businesses accountable.

  8. For someone claiming to be running against DC corruption, she sure is quite even after her beloved mentor is found guilty seven times over.

    Stevens has not said what he plans to do and Palin’s reluctance to call on him to step down may reflect just how powerful the Alaska senator remains. He is still popular and could win re-election.

    Wow, what a maverick she is.

  9. We can finally breathe easier now that we can keep the 50% of our tax money that was going to Alaska, but nobody here should be wishing for one-party rule, even to “make up” for R time.  The libs here are going to be seeing some crass, sick BS coming out of your heros on the Hill if the D’s get 60+.  They will do exactly what the R’s have done for the past decade: totally overreach and be undone by their own excesses.  In fact, start your corruption betting lines now to try to figure out the order of the D’s to be brought up on ethics or legal charges over the next few years.  Absolute power corrupts absolutely and the D’s won’t be any less likely to drink the wine than the R’s were.  

    3. If it had been, they would have gotten Social Security privatized and such. They couldn’t accomplish anything, really, that they didn’t have a lot of Democratic support.

      No, the Republicans’ problem was total incompetence, which is why the Republican brand didn’t really turn to shit until the Iraq war started going badly and especially when Katrina happened.

      Some of us are voting Democratic because we’re big progressives. Others are voting Democratic because they want a government that can perform basic functions. The latter are the ones who will push us over the top.

      Hard to overreach at “competence.” We may hold power for a long time, after this mess.

      1. but much of this lies at the feet of Congress not doing one iota of oversight during one-party R rule.  But do you actually think that a D Congress is going to do one iota of oversight on an Obama Administration?  Not a fat chance in hell.  

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