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Palin Comments on Dismissal of Charges (against Stevens)
Office of the Governor of the State of Alaska ^ | 04-01-09 | Gov. Sarah Palin

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.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 110th; alaska; palin; sarahpalin; stevens; tedstevens; the2008coup
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To: libbylu

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.


21 posted on 04/01/2009 3:19:46 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: euram

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.


22 posted on 04/01/2009 3:21:33 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (1st call: Abbas. 1st interview: Al Arabiya. 1st energy decision: halt drilling in UT. Arabs 1st!)
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To: Drango

mmmmmmmm you were in the court room?


23 posted on 04/01/2009 3:21:39 PM PDT by libbylu (Sarah - the light of the midnight sun)
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To: Drango

And to be clear, I’m in now way comparing Ayers crime to Stevens breach of office.


24 posted on 04/01/2009 3:22:01 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Drango

Nice non-response. Go away, the adults are having a conversation.


25 posted on 04/01/2009 3:25:32 PM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: SolidWood

yep.


26 posted on 04/01/2009 3:29:24 PM PDT by sauropod (Welcome to O'Malleyland. What's in your wallet?)
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To: detective
Chris Matthews was very critical of Sen. Stevens when he was still in office. Now that it’s over he finally starts to see the injustice.

Meanwhile, Begich has his seat.

27 posted on 04/01/2009 3:30:54 PM PDT by sauropod (Welcome to O'Malleyland. What's in your wallet?)
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To: euram

Welcome to AK/DNC politics of personal destruction. Same thing Gov Palin is going through.

Pray for America, Our Troops and Gov Palin


28 posted on 04/01/2009 3:32:06 PM PDT by bray (Join the Rebel Republican Movement!)
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To: safeasthebanks

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.


29 posted on 04/01/2009 3:34:58 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: mono

Mission Accomplished

One less Republican senator.


30 posted on 04/01/2009 3:39:24 PM PDT by Carley (President Obama Dropped a MOAB on America)
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To: deport
Noting Stevens’ age, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said, “He’s already been punished enough.”

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.

31 posted on 04/01/2009 3:41:17 PM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: Drango

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?


32 posted on 04/01/2009 3:41:37 PM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: euram

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.


33 posted on 04/01/2009 3:44:43 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: safeasthebanks

You believe the charges were BS. I (and the jury) believe they were legit.


34 posted on 04/01/2009 3:46:02 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Tublecane

“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.


35 posted on 04/01/2009 3:47:59 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Candor7

They should be hunted down like animals and......

LLS


36 posted on 04/01/2009 3:56:07 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: euram

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)


38 posted on 04/01/2009 4:31:01 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: Drango

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.


39 posted on 04/01/2009 4:55:58 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: Tublecane

Funny how they rarely, if ever used the term “Blagogate”.


40 posted on 04/01/2009 5:01:52 PM PDT by curth (Get Out Of The Way, I'll Do It - Sarah Palin)
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