For all you Ted Stevens corruption watchers

[Blue_In_AK]

here's another little tidbit, this one maybe not quite as egregious as some of the others, but still something to add to the mounting pile of evidence against old Uncle Ted. Some of you will remember this Bob Penney is the same gentleman who wanted to give Lisa Murkowski such a great deal on his Kenai River waterfront property.

Penney's group was in charge of 2004 earmark
$3 MILLION: Critics say state, not private group, should have directed spending of fisheries money.

By SEAN COCKERHAM
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Published: September 30, 2007
Last Modified: September 30, 2007 at 02:04 AM

In 2004, Alaska state officials came across a puzzling sentence deep inside a bill recently passed by Congress. It said only this: "$2 million is for the Kenai River; $1 million for the Russian River."

That's all.

The officials couldn't tell what the money was for. So they sent an e-mail to the office of Alaska's powerful U.S. senator, Ted Stevens, at the time chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Stevens' panel had helped craft the bill, which covered spending for several federal agencies. The section in question dealt with money distributed out of something called the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund.

The reply from Stevens' office to the state: "The $2 million for the Kenai River; and $1 million for the Russian River go to Bob Penny." Then it gave the phone number for Penco, an Anchorage company founded by developer Bob Penney.

That's all.

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Go here for "the rest of the story"
http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/9343908p-9258415c.html

[Richard Steele]

1. K&R

[acmavm]

2. WOW! It must be one hell of a story. It crashed my browser TWICE!!

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I'm sorry...

It is kind of a long story, and you may need to register with the Anchorage Daily News to be able to read it. (It's free, though.)

[acmavm]

4. Nah, I'll just skip it. I get the drift. Anyway, the guy's a schmuck and a

crook. I've been following his story for a long time.

Tell me, how do the people of Alaska fell about this guy? Are they sick and tired of his old corrupt ass now, or are they still nuts enough to let him get away with all his criminal and unethical activity?

When I lived in Anchorage in the early 70s, that place reminded me of the wild west. A kind of far northern Dodge City if you will. It had only been a state for a couple of decades and it was pretty wild and crazy. We went to the Biliken Drive-In to see Paint Your Wagon and they always played hardcore porn movies before the main feature. That's where I saw my first one, 'Censorship USA' was the name. And going down to 6th Street on Friday and Saturday night was an eye-opener. Guys would come flying out backwards through the doors of the bars with regularity. It almost seemed like it was the normal way to leave. Except their feet didn't touch the ground until they landed half-way across the street. And the sad thing was the prostitution. There were just so many women and girls on the streets.

I absolutely loved Alaska. I still think it's be best place I've ever been in my life. I never wanted to leave but my ex missed his Mommy.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I moved here in 1975

although I had visited my parents (who moved here in '69) in 1972 and 1973. I know what you're talking about -- it WAS the Wild West back then and that pretty much continued through the Pipeline-building days. Later we got more "respectable." Almost all of the old Fourth Avenue bars have been closed, and the prostitution, while still here, isn't nearly as obvious as it used to be. The "houses" have been closed. With the oil money have come a lot of improvements -- museums, libraries, performing arts center, sports arena, among others -- so now Anchorage is pretty much like most other cities its size. A noticable trend over the past few years has been a steady influx of different international cultures so that we have a very diverse population at this point, especially a large number of Asians and Pacific Islanders. Also the balance of men and women has leveled out some. You may remember the old adage "Alaska -- where the odds are good, but the goods are odd" (referring to the men, of course).

As far as Ted and Don go, people are finally starting to wake up, and with all the state legislative corruption investigations going on, everybody's just pretty well disgusted with politics. Of course, there are some die-hard supporters, but the two of them are more vulnerable than I've ever seen them. There is even some speculation that Ted may not run in 2008, even if he isn't indicted. I'll believe that when I see it.

[Breeze54]

5. Thanks for the updates!

One more log on the fire! ;)

[Snarkturian Clone]

6. the internet is tubes. It is not a big truck.

It's not something that you can just dump something on.