Ted Stevens Indicted!
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Sha-na-na-na! Sha-na-na-na! Hey Hey-ey. Good bye!
July 29 (Bloomberg) — Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington on charges of hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts he received.
Stevens, 84, was charged with seven counts of making false statements on his Senate financial disclosure forms from 1999 to 2006 about gifts and renovations on his house.
Stevens’s indictment boosts Democratic chances of winning an Alaska Senate seat for the first time in almost three decades, if he remains a candidate. “If Stevens is on the ballot I would expect Democrats to win the seat,” said Nathan Gonzales of the Rothenberg Political Report.
This is another tumor about to excised from the body of the GOP. Gonzales is correct, though. If Stevens remains on the ticket we will definitely lose this seat so it is imperative that the Republican establishment force this man off the ticket if he will not go willingly.