Alaskan's sound off on whether or not Senator "Uncle" Ted Stevens is guilty. Read the full description.
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The defense has rested and the jury is deliberating on the future of the longest serving Republican senator in the country's history. After decades of service to and hundreds of millions in pork-laden dollars for Alaska, this vox pop looks at the very complicated feelings Alaskans have towards their senator, Uncle Ted.
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The defense has rested and the jury is deliberating on the future of the longest serving Republican senator in the country's history. After decades of service to and hundreds of millions in pork-laden dollars for Alaska, this vox pop looks at the very complicated feelings Alaskans have towards their senator, Uncle Ted.
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KRUA 88.1 FM / The News Feed / 10.24.2008
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Robert Karl Skoglund
Posted on October 27, 2008 at 08:12 AM | Permalink
Review of Is our Senator guilty? Do we care?
Great piece. I'm still laughing.
You're probably too young to remember when Boston Mayor Curley was reelected while in jail.
I remember hearing tell that if Curly heard that some poor person was cold in the winter, he'd send over a truckload of coal.
Curley looked out for people, and could probably have been reelected if he were dead.
From the sound of this piece, Stevens funneled a lot of federal money into companies in his home state. After all, what's a US Senator for? And wouldn't one certainly expect favors to be returned?
The only thing that surprises us is that we so seldom hear about it in the news.
The humble Farmer