Posted on 07/08/2008 4:35:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Facing bad publicity and a dwindling campaign account, U.S. Rep. Don Young last year turned to the "AK Wolfpack," a group of more than 20 lobbyists, including former Young staffers and retired former congressmen, with close ties to the Alaska Republican.
Young's chief of staff, Mike Anderson, sent the Wolfpack an e-mail to tell them that national Democrats planned aggressive fundraising and claims of misconduct by Young to topple the 35-year incumbent congressman and his fellow Alaska Republican, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.
If they succeed, Anderson warned, "you and your clients will be impacted."
Anderson e-mailed the fundraising appeal on June 8, 2007. Since then, according to federal reports, Young has received more than $90,000 from the e-mail recipients, their lobbying firms or clients of their firms. That is nearly a quarter of the roughly $400,000 raised by Young and his Midnight Sun Political Action Committee over the same period through the first quarter of this year.
Of the 27 individuals to whom the e-mail was addressed, 23 are registered federal lobbyists, and some of them are prominent figures whose firms have long lists of well-heeled clients. Many of their clients have ties to Alaska or businesses elsewhere that operate under the jurisdiction of congressional committees that Young has chaired or on which he has been an influential member.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
This is what the GOP establishment has come to.
Still doesn’t cover his legal fees.
Has McClatchy done any kind of story on Jefferson D-La?
Don Young and Ted Stevens are two of the major reasons I switched to independent this Spring. When the GOP stops tolerating corruption and toe-tapping hypocrites, then the party may begin recovering.
It's a system of taxpayer supported corporate and political welfare.
Mike Huckabee’s PAC is also supporting him.
“When the GOP stops tolerating corruption and toe-tapping hypocrites, then the party may begin recovering.”
bump!!
Don Young is renominated, Don Young loses in November.
Come too? It hasn’t been like this in the past?
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