AK - Dunbar challenges Young on ethics violations in televised debate

[Blue_In_AK]

What is encouraging here is the comments, so many people who have voted for Young in the past willing to change their vote this year. Forrest may not be able to pull it off, but he's giving old Don a run for his money.


http://www.adn.com/article/20141030/dunbar-challenges-young-ethics-violations-televised-debate

Rep. Don Young criticized Democrat Forrest Dunbar on Thursday for bringing up U.S. House ethics violations in a televised debate for U.S. Congress, arguing that he was found not guilty because he received a letter of reproval, not a sanction.

“I was hoping, Forrest, you would stay away from that subject because I’ve been found not guilty in every aspect,” Young said, portraying a letter of reproval from the House Ethics Committee in June as a vindication of sorts.

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“I do think I could have disputed but I did say, ‘OK, I follow what you asked me to do,’ ” Young said. “That was the gentlemanly thing to do and I did pay, but that is not any kind of a reprimand of any type or any sort.”

He said Dunbar should be talking about what he can do, not questioning Young about ethics. “It shows your inexperience,” said Young, a member of Congress since 1973.

Dunbar said the "bombastic" approach Young uses may have worked when he was chairman of a committee, but he is no longer a chairman and Alaska needs more "ethical and effective representation in Congress."

[randys1]

1. EVer since we had the cackler in chief, W, when i see or hear these rightwing punks laughing

or cackling, I lose it. (look at that smug asshole laughing)

I hear them call my radio shows like Michelangelo Signorile or Mark Thompson on Sirius, or in the morning Ari Rabin-Havt, and the cackling by a moron who thinks he knows more than the person they are talking to who actually knows ten thousand times more, who is vastly more mature and just decent, oh man it makes me so angry

so angry

[Blue_In_AK]

2. And Don Young is the worst.

At one point during the debate when Forrest was grilling him about the ethics complaints and his loss of power, Young got up in his face and said, "Shame on you, shame on you," as if Forrest was a naughty child. It was disgusting. At least Forrest didn't end up "dead on the ground." LOL