SEN. STEVENS (R-AK): 'Bridge to Nowhere' man leads GOP down scandal path

[L. Coyote]

Aug 05, 2007
'Bridge to Nowhere' man leads GOP down scandal path
Marsha Mercer - Media General News Service
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WASHINGTON - Ted Stevens offered the FBI a house key, but agents ... called a locksmith. And the news media.

People could see agents in business suits taking pictures of cases of wine. One agent carried to a van a garbage bag filled with heaven-knows-what.

The best reality show is still reality. .... The day after FBI and IRS agents raided his home, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history threatened in a private luncheon with Republican senators to hold up the ethics bill that was rolling through the Senate. He didn't want to give up flying home with lobbyists....

...... Senator "Bridge to Nowhere," ... sought $320 million for a bridge from Gravina Island, pop. 50, to Ketchikan, pop. 8,900. But you may not know that your tax dollars provided earmarked special projects amounting to $1,064 for every man, woman and child in Alaska, the most per capita in the nation.

If he were a character in a novel, readers would say he's unbelievable. But fact is stranger.

In 2005, Stevens was so upset when the Senate refused to allow oil drilling in the Alaska wilderness that he said, "This has been the saddest day of my life." ..............

[Fearless]

1. Finally something I can laugh at again.

[L. Coyote]

2. Stevens / Vitter 2008 would make a good bumper sticker right now!

One is going nowhere and the other is coming somewhere!

Going Nowhere/Coming Somewhere 2008 :rofl:

[Fearless]

4. Hahaha!

I was thinking a Vitter / Nowak campaign. They could go halfsies on a thirty pack of Pampers.

I can see the attack ads now... Vitter / Nowak They're full of shit.

[shugah]

3. NO!!!

sorry - can't think of ted stevens without envisioning his "<paraphrase> and to my colleagues in the senate that want me to give up funding for my pork etc, my response is </paraphrase> NO!!!" :rofl:

[Fearless]

5. Maybe he could threaten to resign and then... do it?

[L. Coyote]

6. Expect that Stevens will have to resign, and very soon too. Then there's the JAIL.

The facts. The company that built half of his house has admitted to payoffs to AL legislators. We can see where this is going!!

For Stevens, the huge concern and big trick now will be avoiding spending his last years in prison.

As Vitter might say, "Getting caught is a horrid mistress."

[Fearless]

8. Actually I believe Vitter would say...

That getting caught is the shit. But that's my guess. As for Stevens, his odds for reelection, I believe, has just gone down the tubes.

:rofl: :rofl:

[arcos]

7. He should have built a series of tubes, instead of a bridge...

It would have been cheaper than $320 million... :P