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Introducing your next commutations
No doubt those who bend over and smile while doing so deserve one (although admittedly those who ordered them to break the law should be the one's awaiting federal charges)
and surely we can't allow a fellow "businessman" (read as racketeer) be punished for criminal actions especially as it might cut into our own pocketbook.
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25 Jul 2007, 04:10 PM
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And to complete the trifecta for the Alaskan legislative representation...Senator Lisa Murkowski is being investigated in a land deal she made with a salmon czar (there are salmon czars???). In fact construction on the property in question has stopped in lieu of an ethics investigation.
Link Hmm Im surprised I made it this far in a subject related to Senator Stevens without mocking the term "intertubes" yet 
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26 Jul 2007, 08:13 PM
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As to a follow up, it seems Senator Murkowski is going to do the more honorable thing (from a far distance) and is reneging her land deal.
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