Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Ted Stevens Convicted; Crooked Politicians everywhere morn the fall of a hero

Ted Stevens was convicted Monday of hiding about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of bribes he received in the forms of house renovations and gifts from oil companies and others. This conviction has an even greater significance because the Alaskan Senators seat is being heavily contested right now by Democrat Mark Begich as this seat could help the Democrats win sixty seats in the Senate which could prevent filibusters. Sarah Palin said that such behaviors were the types of behaviors she fought as a governor in Alaska but did not call for Stephen's to step down. Ironically, Palin used Stephens endorsement in campaign ads during 2006. Stephens currently says that he plans to fight the case and has no plans to step down or stop campaigning. If he wins reelection chances are he will eventually be expelled from the senate.

1 comment:

R. Bal said...

so he's like every other politician that takes bribes or receives extrenuous amounts of money for a campaign that will eventually have to be paid back in favors with the candidate, except he got caught. i also love how palin seemed a bit flustered that stevens got caught, but what can you expect, you commit a crime, you're gonna get caught sometime