No Home Cookin’ For Porker
CHANGE OF VENUE DENIED IN SENATOR’S CORRUPTION CASE
FITSNews – August 21, 2008 – There will be no “home cookin’” for indicted Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, the arch-enemy of fiscal conservatism in Washington D.C. and the Republican most responsible for plunging the GOP into its present electoral wilderness.
Stevens – who in addition to blowing billions of dollars on wasteful pork spending over the years was also allegedly taking bribes from companies with business before the U.S. Senate – has lost his bid to move his corruption trial from Washington State to Alaska.
From the LA Times:
A federal judge Wednesday denied Sen. Ted Stevens’ request to move his corruption trial to his home state of Alaska, saying the lawmaker’s plans to campaign for reelection risked improperly influencing potential jurors if the case were to be transferred there.
Lawyers for Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, sought the change because most of the 40 or so witnesses expected to testify are from Alaska. They said Stevens had a right to continue his reelection campaign, which would be easier if the trial was held in Alaska.
But U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said he was persuaded by the Justice Department’s concerns that the publicity surrounding a senator who was running for reelection while on trial “could lead to a significant potential for jury tainting.”
JNo kidding. Stevens owns Alaska, and a trial there would be about as impartial as the Nazi “People’s Court” was. Plus, he’s apparently still got a plurality of Alaska Republicans behind him, no doubt thanks to all that taxpayer largesse he’s funneled up there.
In a perfect world, Stevens would get locked up for life and be forced to repay all that money he wasted. Either that or forced to jump off one of the eleventy kabillion unnecessary bridges that have popped up in his state over the last few decades.
Comments
By Leah on August 21st, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I’m sorry, but where are you getting your facts? Less than 50% of Alaska has paved roads, so how could there be “eleventy kabillion” bridges?
And why don’t you do something about it rather than complain on the Internet? I’m sure your senator doesn’t have a perfect rap, either.
By Crooner on August 21st, 2008 at 12:15 pm
“In a perfect world, Stevens would get locked up for life…” Gee, I get as excited as anyone when a sanctimonious Repub gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar (Dems tend to panties). But don’t you think he ought to get a trial before being sentenced?
Look for a January 19th pardon.
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