Ted Stevens Beats Feat on That Bridge to Freedom

By Steven Tarlow, your Ted Stevens news source

Free at last, free at last…

“Corrupt politicians” is the same old song in America and abroad. As jaded as many of us are, it is a rare and pleasant surprise to find someone who is honest, someone who spends less time trying to regulate away useful public products like cash advance loans and more time dealing with issues that help their constituency long-term.

In spite of his recent exoneration, Ted Stevens, former Alaska senator,  does not qualify as one of those Mr. Smiths that too rarely make the trek to Washington…

An architect of the Gravina Island Bridge deal

Pareene writes for Gawker at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/us/politics/02stevens.html?_r=1&hp that Stevens is no longer a convicted felon. He rides over his Bridge to Nowhere and off into the sunset. This comes in the face of Stevens’ previous conviction on “seven counts of making false statements on financial disclosure forms to hide about $250,000 in gifts and free renovations to his Alaska home,” reported the Washington Post.

With law enforcement like this, who needs laws?

Here is a sampling of Pareene’s laundry list of what went wrong with the investigation, leading to Stevens’ exoneration:

Question whether the Bush administration’s Justice Department is to blame. Ponder the money trail and the connects that could have made this happen. Then stick your head out the window and join the chorus of Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to Be An American,” patriot!

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  1. Peter Stone says:

    I can’t believe this. They had this guy, and they dropped the ball. Why? Our elected officials get let off the hook because they’re elected? That is not supposed to be the way it works. Public Office is supposed to be held to a higher standard; I don’t care what party they are a member of. This isn’t acceptable. They work for us, not the opposite.

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