Palin Was Director Of Stevens' 527 Group
By Cernig Wednesday Sep 03, 2008 4:30pmSo much for fighting for reform, eh? Sarah Palin built her political capital in Alaska by throwing in with none other than Ted Stevens
Palin's name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. The group was designed to serve as a political boot camp for Republican women in the state. She served as one of three directors until June 2005, when her name was replaced on state filings.
Palin's relationship with Alaska's senior senator may be one of the more complicated aspects of her new position as Sen. John McCain's running mate; Stevens was indicted in July 2008 on seven counts of corruption.
Palin, an anti-corruption crusader in Alaska, had called on Stevens to be open about the issues behind the investigation. But she also held a joint news conference with him in July, before he was indicted, to make clear she had not abandoned him politically.
Stevens had been helpful to Palin during her run for governor, swooping in with a last moment endorsement. And the two filmed a campaign commercial together to highlight Stevens's endorsement of Palin during the 2006 race.
Shortly after Palin was announced as McCain's vice presidential pick, the ad was removed from her gubernatorial campaign web site. It remains available on YouTube.
And here's that ad, courtesy of TPM, who saved it for posterity.
VECO, the company that gave "gifts" to Stevens, has ties to Palin too according to Think Progress, contributing 10 percent of her total campaign fund when she ran for lieutenant governor in 2002.
Corruption you can believe in!
What's remarkable is that people like Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) are going around repeatedly spouting talking points like "Gov. Palin took on Ted Stevens. If she can take him on, she can take on the Russians. Heh." And the question arises - are they really that dishonest or are they simply ignorant, digging themselves deeper and deeper into holes because of the worst-vetted candidate ever?
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Drip..Drip..Drip..
To try and erase some of the stench from the last few days of the convention,I found this old fave a breath of fresh air
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkuOAY-S6OY
Looks like Palin in knee deep in the slime that is Ted Stevens.
But she speaks in Tongues!!!! How could she be corrupt? (Can't make this stuff up)
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122048406528596987.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
why that not change you can believe in...
It is interesting that the campaign slogan is "New Energy for Alaska" of course they are talking about promoting drilling for oil. I bet I have heard the word "energy" and "energized" and "energizing the base" 3000 times in the last 36 hours. Every Repug that is aske to give their opinion about Palin says she has energized the gop et, etc, etc, it is obviously a talking point that got sent to every gop talking hack. They must have did a target study on the word.
Sorry...need help posting a link. Will have to copy and paste unless you can help me out.
You see, this is the kind of crap that happens when you allow net neutrality: these ancient, irrelevant video clips get stuck in the tubes-- the hundreds and hundreds of tubes that make up the internets, and then these damn liberals come along with their internets laxatives, and this garbage comes spewing out at the most inconvenient times.
She is an honor student from the Stevens school of bring home the pork politics.
Corruption First!
Chris Matthews and Pat Buchanan just spent the first 12-15 minutes yelling at each other at the beginning of Chris's show. Pat says Sarah is being picked on, Christ denied that. It was something, lots of loud voices.
I almost threw up a little in my mouth. If he had given her a big wet sloppy kiss (no tongue!) I would need a new keyboard.
Why is it Palin always looks like she just got goosed?
They're getting their talking points out before the proverbial feces impact the rotating blades.
Pre-emptive strike on the Fact-inistas.
They're grooming these people to replace the old ones.
Boy, you guys are really slow here. This story was up over at Josh Marshall's site a day or more ago.
[To be fair, Doofus, this post wasn't written today- and maybe not even yesterday. This one probably got bumped back because of breaking, time sensitive posts over the last few days. Personally, this was news to me. I've been too busy monitoring here to read there. Site Monitor]
this is the reason why palin has not been available to the media. the mccain campaign have a lot of spinning to do. she has too many issues. results of not vetting her properly.
They really are that stupi. They really are that dishonest. They really are that contempful. They really are that cynical. And...they really are that confident, assured that they are going to succeed in their lies and manipulations, because they know the the MSM corporate media is going deploy the full power of its massive propaganda machine on their behalf.
heard that running total for obama campaign after palin speech is 8M$. people were so angry with her speech that they were shaking as they typed their credit card numbers last night.
nickpoppagorgiofromyuma@ 4 --
Thanks for link:
WSJ: Palin's Faith Is Seen
In Church Upbringing
She was picked for Veep. Was there any doubt shes a team player?
nickpoppagorgiofromyuma @ 7:
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Did you notice among repugs --
Nobody knows who Obama is after 19 months of intense scrutiny.
Everyone knows McCain, but don't even ask. He was a POW.
After 2 days everybody knew everything about palin, and it is ALL GOOD.
nickpoppagorgiofromyuma @ 4:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122048406528596987.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Consider this:
http://www.alternet.org/election08/97493/palin%3A_the_latest_gop_distrac...
. . . Here's the deal: Palin is the latest G.O.P. distraction. She's meant to shift attention away from the real issue of this campaign -- the awful state of the nation after eight years of Republican rule. The Republicans are brilliant at distractions. Willie Horton was a distraction. The chatter about gays, guns and God has been a long-running distraction. And we all remember the Swift-boat campaign.
If you want a real issue, forget all of the above and revisit Monday's front page of The New York Times. Hundreds of families are being forced out of their homes each month in Louisville, Ky., because of mortgage foreclosures. With record numbers of poor and homeless students, the public schools are struggling. . .
Suggest everyone here express a reason to support Obama than to attack Palin (McCain).
DemfromCT on DKOS takes the position that if you want your candidate to win, attack his or her opponent, don't offer reasons for supporting your candidate.
I think this is BS. But that's just my opinion.
Anyone notice how quiet the Religious Right has been this last week? No Dobson, no Robertson, no Hagee?
Curious, no?
The Cons don't care. I mean face it this is the most corrupt administration-party in the History of the United States.
Palin's the perfect con choice to dazzle the flocks with bullsh*t
Jo@12 Boopia ; an old medical term used to denote the blank, wide open stare of hysteria.
Thank you Patricia and Orangutan!!! Think this makes the MSM?!?!
Aren't 527s supposed to be issues-oriented only, and not in support of specific candidates such as a "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc." group???
You guys got to look at this:
Digging through Wasilla’s municipal records is a lesson in the very essence of tedium. You’ve got pages of proposals to rename streets, assess sewers, build skateboard parks, buy lawnmowers, rent “pop” machines, carve snowmobile trails, congratulate high school football teams — the kind of stuff that makes small towns run, but leaves you glad that someone else is running them.
Every once in a while, though, something pops up and grabs your attention. Take, for example, Wasilla City Council Informational Memorandum 99-62, prepared on June 14, 1999. This little gem outlines some of the state-funded projects that Wasilla City secured that year, including $1.2 million for storm water treatment and $605,000 for pedestrian pathways.
Then, slapped in the margin, former Mayor Sarah Palin — reformer extraordinaire — scribbled the following message:
FYI This does not include our nearly one million Dollars from the Feds for our Airport Paving Project.
We did well!!!
the link is a copy of the with her own handwriting
http://www.washingtonindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/council-...
Pork here, pork now, pork here, pork now!!!!!
21 ronhohn Says: Did you notice among repugs –
Nobody knows who Obama is after 19 months of intense scrutiny.
Everyone knows McCain, but don’t even ask. He was a POW.
After 2 days everybody knew everything about palin, and it is ALL GOOD.
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Limpbaugh was pimping all day today that she has given 2 speeches what more do we need to know? She is one of us, she is the "one".
Father Tyme @ 25:
I saw Robertson on some show talking about how Sarah was rallying the right to McCain. He said they felt like now they had a real reason to get out and vote. This was the candidate they had been waiting for. I thought for sure when he finished talking he was going to want a cocktail and a cigarette as he basked in the dewy afterglow of the experience.
people need a dose of some reality....this woman is an opportunistic.....she taxed oil co. profits, reduced local property tax and then hired a lobbyist from steven's firm to cultivate federal funds.
she left wasilla a huge debt....i believe for a hockey facility.
she's another wasteful spender pretending NOT to be.
we're getting a big dose of POW and first woman republican
vice president nominee(shields) instead of the issues....people are high on deception.
Her affiliation with indicted Ted Stevens as head of his 527 destroys her claim to be a "reformer". She's a total insider. I'm waiting to see where the dots connect between Stevens and Alaska's horrendous level of corruption, Abramoff's Chief Lobbyist, Silver who worked closely with Sarah Palin and managed to get her some $24 million for a city (Wasilla) of less than 5,000 people. Something's definitely wrong with that picture. Just a matter of time until the full details spill out....and over the edge....and down the sides of the glass ceiling...
A corrupt christofascist. Yea, that's exactly what this country needs after 8 years of Bush and Cheney.
harley @ 31:
There was a post and a copy of the records posted earlier here today at C&L
Mick the uppity Piobr @ 28:
From Betty Boop?
And I'd like further clarification about the "employer" of her husband, Todd since she chose to bring him, along with all of her kids, front and center and use them to create an image - an image perhaps far from the one we're gathering through evidence and her performance last night. She made a point in her intro speech of saying that he was a "lifelong commercial fisherman" when, in fact, we now discover that he's an "oilman" through and through. This is beginning to really reek of Black Gold, Alaska Tea.....
VietVet8666 @ 24:
It may well be BS, but it's the tack the GOP took in 2000 and 2004 and are using in this election, too. It's worked well for them, just as the nice-guy, hands-off approach the Dems have tried has been an utter failure for them. It seems that at this point in American political (as well as pop-culture) history, people prefer dirt and gossip to substance and solutions. There may come a time when this changes, but how many lost elections will go by before it does. The GOP seized power. It's time for the Dems to seize it back.
The next president will:
-- end U.S. military involvement in Iraq
-- push for legislation to free U.S. dependence on oil
-- seek to restore Constitutional principles
...are they really that dishonest or are they simply ignorant, digging themselves deeper and deeper into holes because of the worst-vetted candidate ever?
Does this really need to be an "either/or" question? Because "all of the above and a whole lot more" seems like the correct answer!
PEACE
harley @ 31:
Interesting she took on corruption and replaced it with her own brand.
Caribou Barbie pretends to be a Washington "outsider" but has no problem grabbing Uncle Sam's cash for their self centered purposes.
Just another self centered Neocon phony.
patricia: Yes, I caught this document on another thread. What a reformer, eh? This shit catches up with you but then again it shows her level of naivete and ignorance. I suppose in the boonies of Alaska and them being, quite literally, "in the dark" for a good part of the year, it's pretty easy to keep them in the dark?
She's in way over her pointed little head.
..."are they really that dishonest..."
Yes they are THAT dishonest. Do you even have to ask? Are the last 8 years of complete corruption not enough?
I'm surprised they haven't had cheney bomb iran just to take the heat off their ridiculous ticket.
It's the all corruption ticket spanning the entire range of bad decision making "Ancient/Clueless '08"
The Town of Wasilla - Under 5,000 population during her tenure as Mayor.
The State of Alaska: 626,932 according to the census - and roughly the size of Austin Texas which comes in at 656,562.
This is what we call "experience" these days? I don't think so.
Many are donating to Barack as a way of saying no to the nasty and mean politics of Sarah Barracuda.
www.BarackObama.com
The NeoCons probably want us to make this whole election into an attack on Sarah Palin. I think we should properly vet her and introduce her to the American public, but we also must stay focused on the issues and the disaster this country is in. That way its not a vote on standing up for lil' Sarah Palin from Walissa Alaska.
Sarah Palin is not the victim. It's the country after what McCain, Bush, and the Republicans have done to us.
McCain is a continuation of the Bush madness.
The blogs are going to play a big role. Rachel Maddow quoted Politico.com yesterday on MSNBC.
I hope we can win this thing. Diebold, The Media, Lies be Damned. Peace.
If I'm not mistaken over at the TPZoo I've seen the comparison of credentials and accomplishments. Barack Obama has over 7 pages of things he's accomplished on the national level. We need to begin plastering these credentials each time we post a comment. To tell you the truth, I was awed and I've never underestimated either his intelligence or accomplishments. It will blow a person's mind to see how much this man has done for this country.
someguy @ 3:
She's also knee-deep in AIPAC slime. Hours after McCain chose her she was kneeling before her AIPAC masters kissing their rings (along with Joe Lieberman):
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/09/02/palin-at-aipac-that-didnt-take-long/
They had to be sure she could pass THAT smell test.
i say she get's relentless attacks regarding these issues. if people are afraid of this shield the republicans are developing
right now were screwed.
i want random foreign policy/issue questions: from attacks on pakistan soil....lets check her knowledge geography/politics and leaders of othe countries.....i heard the other day that doesn't matter....this is the shield they will develop....i want to talk about bhutto,putin....castro'sbrother,ukraine,ossetia,thailand
burma...........she is a heart beat away these are she hasn't even said.....with mccain being 72.5 yo palin doesn't get to allowed to learn everything when she is clearly behind everyone in foreign afffairs
Orangatun: Everyone I know is donating $100 today as a protest against Palin's nasty, sarcastic persona and McCain's total lack of fitness to serve.
Boopoid Bo op' oid = Bovine or cow eyes. I don't think that the term is in use anymore.
borrowed this from commenter on huffpost
SHRILLA FROM WASILLA
Hey guys.
Here's what I suspect you want.
You pay taxes.
You want good infrastructure, health care, etc.
If you don't want this, vote for either D or R.
Off topic, but worth noting:
[Yes, it is worth noting that this belongs on an Open Thread! :D Thank you. Site Monitor]
"are they really that dishonest or are they simply ignorant, "
Can't it be both?
Republican whores like Lindsay "Five Rugs, Five Bucks" Graham can spout their talking points with impunity as long as an incurious media desperate for a McCain victory continue to repeat them verbatim.
I lived in Alaska once. Estimated population 670,053. That whole state is built on Oil. There's just one problem Sarah forgot to mention last night.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alaska_Crude_Oil_Reserves.PNG
she was for the'bridge to Nowhere' august 2006 until critics described it as a symbol of wasteful spending. she finally opposed it publicly and returned a portion of the funds.
this very important to use as it has already received a lot of media attention and i've many say this was a mistake for them to use. i'm sure they have spin ready....i would have ads sevens
and palin...use numbers reflecting the cost and show stevens
being questoned
OK. We are eight weeks away from the election. If Obama and Biden adn thier surrogates don't start pushing back hard and pushing back now we are going to be crying into our cereal after election day.
Sites like this are fine for us and they help, but unless the candidates and the talking heads start making the Republicans' ears bleed, we are going to lose again!
What is most disappointing is that with all the terrific liberal blogs and the Daily Show and Colbert teeing this stuff up, why do the Democratic "strategists" constantly on TV all seem so clueless?
Do they not check in on Kos, here, Huffington, TPM etc before they go on air? Or do they just check Drudge?
Aaaaaaarrrrrrgh!
[For the Pythoners]
Cheers,
Are they dishonest and Ignorant? No, they're dishonest and arrogant. And why not? Look at how many people will vote or are considering voting Republican in the next election! This, in spite of the fact we have a Republican president who has trashed the Constitution, trashed the bill-of-rights, totally corrupted the Department of Justice, invaded a foreign country under false pretenses, diverted our national wealth to his corporate buddies at Blackwater, Haliburton, the oil compnies, pharmaceutical companies. Whay not be arrogant when they continually get away with it? Maybe it's too many Americans who are stupid.
Constituent: McCain's already running scared and cancelled an appearance just today at Habitat for Humanity. He's scared shitless that he will be asked about Vicky Iseman. He's trying to isolate and insulate Palin by claiming the "libral media is harassing her". This is not playing well across this country right now.
I suspect he's savvy enough to realize that the media will make or break you. Dissing the media is the easiest way to become irrelevant and to have everything you've ever done that's been the least bit shade brought immediately to the fore. He's not only reckless; his brain is not even clicking.
He thinks that by not permitting the press to ask questions directly to Palin to assess for themselves her ability to serve will keep her from being an embarrassment to him. He should have thought about that long ago.
Insiders are hinting that he did know everything - he knew about the pregnancy; he knew about her abuses of power; he knew perhaps about her sexual indiscretions AND to keep the heat off of himself in all of these areas and to distract the press, he made her his very own "sacrifical lamb". It worked for about a week but won't work much longer. Frankly, the GOP greyhairs are very nervous right now and were planting some of the Palin dirt themselves in the hope of distracting the populace from McCain's own house of horrors. I believe they thought that either McShame would ask for her resignation or that she would bow out before being confirmed and they could insert Romney at that point. Their little charade against McCain didn't work. What he did to Palin is unconscionable. He knew her reputation which is legion throughout Alaska. The people of Alaska vetted her certainly and what they found was just "less corrupt" than what they had. It was the "lesser of two evils". They know this. The newspapers up there have the facts.
McCain played Palin like a violin and has shown his level of chauvenism has grown. He's used her as his personal puppet at the expense of her reputation and that of her family. He knows there's more to come out which will embarrass her so now he's playing "good cop". This man is one of the mose devious men on the planet. Be not fooled.
sophya @ 49:
try this:
http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/obamas-senate-accomplishments/
Orangatun: Are you kidding that she speaks in tongues? We know she speaks with a forked tongue as witnessed last night. But really?? In tongues?? Maybe she thinks that will help her when she has to travel to meet foreign leaders??:)(
left Wasilla with 20 million debt had NO debt when she took office. she increased taxes to fund a hockey rink. cut local property tax then hired a lobbyist from the firm run by ted stevens for federal earmarks.
REFORMER......bullshxt.......OPPORTUNIST....yes
Maybe the Dems shouldn't even waste their time trying to change ignorant people and get them to tap into their potential. They don't want to change. They couldn't if they tried.
Orangutan. @ 23:
I had a step-aunt who belonged to a church where she and many of her fellow parishioners would sometimes get together after hours to speak in tongues in the church basement.
Well, dear Chris also suffered from delusions, multiple personalities and epilepsy. Usually only went to church in the first place when she was off her meds.
Thanks, Jo. That's it. We need to keep posting this everywhere we visit. Barack Obama's credentials, education and the wisdom of his accomplishments speak for themselves. No need to puff anything up about him. Send this list to everyone you know. This is someone we can be proud of. This is someone whose judgment we can trust. This is someone who doesn't have to nasty to make his point or dabble in theatrics. This is someone I'd trust with my future. McGambler is not!
She claims to be an outsider but she's knee deep in the ol' muddy!
AP. ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain, a Vietnam POW turned political rebel . . .
Political Rebel? LOL how come he's running as a Republican then?
George @ 68:
Yeah that is hilarious Sarah's fighting corruption and the establishment who she ironically works for.
sophya @ 67:
I'm with ya! This is someone I will trust with my grandchildren's lives. And I'm following it up with some $$$ for him.
NOW there's talk of making Palin the presidential candidate
she is the only one out of the 4 nominees with executive
experience of 1.5 yrs.
i think rudy g. said she would help him with her executive experience....wow....you need a crook with little experience
to excite your campaign....wow
masha @ 54:
Wait until you see these shots of "The City Hall" of Wasilla where Palin presided as Mayor:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6bda020b0f
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech accepting the vice presidential nomination may have been well-received, but the man at the top of the Republican ticket must still persuade voters that he’s capable of addressing their economic anxieties, said Karl Rove, the former White House deputy chief of staff.
Hilarious. No mention of the biggest Heist of the American People this past 8 years though of which Rove has been a beneficiary.
if you ever have time look at john lindsey mccain III senate transcipt
regarding the bush tax cuts....how mccain opposed them and that it would
hurt the middle class. mccain did a 180....and nuanced it to death
with comments of the spending of congress.
mccain/palin is like a gift wrapped in nice/expensive wrapping and it's a terrible/disconnect gift.
why is it that i don't hear palin compared to biden? why is it that i don't hear completely if mccain goes down june/09 and palin has to step in as commander in chief is she ready
if obama can't serve as of june/09 biden steps in as commander in chief
i know it's hypothetical but it seems possible to me mccain is 72.5 yo
I guess "taking on" is the new republican term for "take the money then throw them under the bus".
I'm going to stick up for Palin's family. Keep Track here, send his mother to Iraq.
They are really that dishonest.
Nice, keep it coming
The Word " Shrill " is going to be a compliment
"a new gender for all of us to get behind"
Oh Ted.
oh, that didn't work. Here's a vid of a typical Sunday in Palin's church. One should beware, it's scary stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPw1i9dAJiQ
And now CBS is saying Obama and Grandpa are tied again in the polls, Obama losing 8 points after her speech. The Dems need to quit pussyfooting around with these thugs and for once...HIT BACK HARD!!!!
Bill & Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.
Sounds like community service, only different. From the needy to the greedy.
It is not surprising to what has occurred since the announcement of McSame's VP choice. I have read comments on her speech and some say it will rally the base, but the damage is already done. Those republicans who are going to vote for Obama will stay with their choice after hearing that speech. It was carefully worded speech designed to tear down Obama character, accomplishments, and ability to lead this country. How can a party who has misaligned our country and turned it into qualified mess be so arrogant. They honestly believe that they can win this election not withstanding their record by waving this non qualified person in front of their flock. I watched some of the spectacle and as the TV cameras panned thru the audience, I noticed that most of the people were sucking it up. I really felt kind of sorry for these people because if these people really believe that the impossible can be overturned than more power to them. I am still amazed that McSame thinks that he has trumped Obama by picking Palin and it will rear its ugly head when all the facts about her come out. Hockey mom my ass: If you read what she did to get the hockey rink built and what Alaska gained as a result, her true colors are clearly exposed for all the world to see. I just hope that those Hillary supporters read between the lines and not be lead to make a foolish choice.
To the Republicans who posted above : I hope that you would rethink your think about your choice to back McSame. His choice for VP was evident that he does not need to be near the trigger. I just hope you really care about your country in real terms because the choice is clear. Don't be a sheep and be lead by this party. Remember, there are a lot of Republicans who will be voting for Obama based on what he wants to do. Please don't tell me that taxes will go up under the Obama banner. They are going to go up irregardless of who wins. Bush has created quite a bill that our future generations will be paying for well in the next century.
McCain:
"One of the key elements of America's national security requirements are energy. She understands the energy issues better than anybody I know in Washington DC, and she understands that Alaska is right next door to Russia, she understands that"
Ignore her, ignore her, ignore her.
Her nomination is a red herring. Ignore her.
Something just doesn't seem right about the connection between Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens. Her political career kicked off with the help of Stevens and she ran a 527 group for him. This was around the same time period that Ted Stevens was in the fight of his life to finally get legislation passed to allow drilling in ANWR.
Steven's has been living large for more than 25 years in the Senate, but still failed on delivering to his state the one thing big oil is obsessed about and that is drilling in the Artic Refuge. With Big Oil failing miserably to gain control over oil in the Middle East and Chavez controlling Venezuelan oil, big oil is shaking things up in Alaska by getting rid of the likes of Stevens and his allies.
Sarah Palin is a black widow who has been able to work her way up early on with the influence of Ted Stevens. I suspect while she was also looking into Stevens' business dealings while overseeing a 527 group for him. Someone who has served as long as Ted Stevens and is in the pocket of Big Oil just doesn't get his home raided by the Feds UNLESS they are the ones throwing him under the bus. The neocons are changing the landscape and priorities. Big Oil runs the GOP which is the only way McCain's campaign survived early on in the primaries. In return, McCain was told to pick Palin. Make no mistake about it, Big Oil men like Bush and Cheney don't like McCain, so they could care less if he loses. Now that Palin performed the dirty work for Big Oil in breaking the hold Stevens and his allies had in Alaska, they can now dispose of Palin too.
Alaska will be the new Middle East for the neocons and oil tycoons as they seek to operate on the local scale of things within the state.
Why wouldn't the Richpublican party jump into the boat of Palin? With all the history she has with the far right wing, she is like a straight up clone of the whitest whiteman ever spawned by the Rove machine, with a bit of female plumbing thrown in for good measure.