Posted on 04/01/2009 2:50:19 PM PDT by euram
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-70
Governor Comments on Dismissal of Charges Against Stevens
April 1, 2009, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today released the following statement in response to the dismissal of the indictment against former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens: “Senator Stevens deserves to be very happy today. What a horrible thing he has endured. The blatant attempts by adversaries to destroy one’s reputation, career and finances are an abuse of our well-guarded process and violate our God-given rights afforded in the Constitution. It is a frightening thing to contemplate what we may be witnessing here – the undermining of the political process through unscrupulous ploys and professional misconduct. Senator Stevens and I had lunch together recently at my home and he reiterated the faith he held for vindication; he never gave up hope. It is unfortunate that, as a result of the questionable proceedings which led to Senator Stevens’ conviction days before the election, Alaskans lost an esteemed statesman on Capitol Hill. His presence is missed.”
I don’t want to retry Stevens here. He’s guilty and toxic. He got away with it just like Bill Ayers did, ‘cause a prosecutor bungled the case.
The better outcome would have been for Stevens to have done the honorable thing and resigned, clearing the field for a real Republican to enter... and win.
Corrupt or not (and I vote “corrupt”), Stevens was a pork-guzzling RINO, a walking punchline, and a fossil. For example, his blathering gave the world the term “intertubes”, and his big-spending pork addiction gave us “the bridge to nowhere.”
Sarah should keep her distance from this guy, IMHO. His image is basically the anti-Sarah. She doesn’t need his smudges on her.
mmmmmmmm you were in the court room?
And to be clear, I’m in now way comparing Ayers crime to Stevens breach of office.
Nice non-response. Go away, the adults are having a conversation.
yep.
Meanwhile, Begich has his seat.
Welcome to AK/DNC politics of personal destruction. Same thing Gov Palin is going through.
Pray for America, Our Troops and Gov Palin
One of the reasons, among many, the GOP lost the House, was that Dennis Hastert objected to the FBI searching the office of the crooked congress critter William Jefferson (D-LA). It made the GOP look like they were protecting crooks.
Throw the bums out. Keep away from Stevens and that toe tapper Craig.
Republicans should make good on the pledge to drain the swamp. Instead they are taking swimming lessons.
Mission Accomplished
One less Republican senator.
Un-frakking-believable! Punished enough? Punished for what, Harry? For being innocent? For having to serve with you in the Senate?
Harry Reid, you're a walking d**k with ears.
And you're deaf.
Spare us the sanctimony. No one should have this crap happen to them, Dem/Rep/Ind/Communist/Green/etc. If someone’s politics are bad let them be legitimately beaten in an election, not defeated with BS corruption charges hanging over his head. You can’t possibly disagree?
She identifies with the guy, considering how they dropped the bogus “abuse of power” charges (regarding troopergate—God, how I hate having to follow the lazy, uninspired MSM in applying the suffix “gate” to every “scandal”) against her a couple of weeks after the election. The only difference is that Stevens probably was guilty.
You believe the charges were BS. I (and the jury) believe they were legit.
“The only difference is that Stevens probably was guilty.”
Of something, I mean. Not necessarily this particular charge, which appears to be cooked up. I just don’t like him, and feel he’s been up to some kind of no good. of course, that’s why we have a criminal justice system. So we don’t have to go by my gut.
They should be hunted down like animals and......
LLS
I thought Palin was supposed to be a reformer...to be against these “good old boys.” Porky Stevens was one of the reasons why the GOP deserved to lose in 2006 and 2008 (not that the democrats deserved to win)
I am astonished that someone would say such a thing about a case where the govt allowed its witnesses to perjure themselves, whisked off a witness who would have cleared Stevens, hid evidence establishing his innocence. The more I see people purporting to be conservatives run away from any Republican charged with wrongdoing without regard to the facts, the more I realize what rotten allies Republican pols have when they are unfairly attacked.
Seriously.
I am not asking that you stand blindly by. Only that without heaping on or running you learn what the facts are.]
You have not.
Funny how they rarely, if ever used the term “Blagogate”.
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