loooooooooooooooooooooool

Don Young Anchorage International Airport?

just found out about this two minutes ago. So will he still get greater than 35% of the vote?



also, lol dvault

Heh.

IIRC, the ethics committee can't begin removal proceedings until he's exhausted all his appeals. We could be stuck with him for quite a while yet.

This is correct.

has a candidate ever won from prison for anything in USA?

i googleed this and found this
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/storie...3/s2193263.htm

but nothing about an american candidate

Ted Stevens will be the new Leonard Peltier. You heard it here first.

Jim Trafficant was convicted of a whole slew of things, expelled from the house, and ran for "re"-election from prison, and actually got a pretty significant chunk of votes, though not enough to win. I think he may have actually be re-elected for real once while under investigation.

He probably has a much better shot than most other politicians would have in his circumstances. See people like William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson. Why the similarity? Because I suspect that it's not so much a racial thing but a "minority" thing. Alaska has a small population and is geographically separated from the rest of the US, someone like Ted Stevens is a big fish in a small pond that can claim victimhood. If a Senator from California was found guilty, I think they'd have a far slimmer chance of re-election.

Except Bill Jefferson hasn't been convicted of anything yet and was actually (******edly) re-elected. What are you even talking about here?

Not so much the specifics, but the question of why corruption or crime seems to be (somewhat more) tolerated in certain politicians. I've hardly done a research paper on this, so it's just speculation, but something to think about nonetheless. I think a theory was floated here (probably in the Kwame Kilpatrick thread) about why it seems that the careers of black politicians can sustain more criminal charges. I'm not sure how strong the relationship is - it may not even exist - but I think there's a fairly good chance that politicians representing distinct communities are better able to get their constituents to empathise with them.

Sorry I'm late responding to this. This internet post just got sent to my staff on Monday. Why? Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. This is why the issue of net neutrality is such an important issue. I didn't receive your "internet page" in a timely fashion because my computer was busy downloading videos for private viewing. Everything got all clogged up, and I had to have my secretary fix it all.

Can a prison legally keep a senator of representative in custody when Congress is in session?

hey guys I bet you didn't see this coming

Some of you cynics might complain, but FNC is clearly displaying their Fair and Balanced nature. While some of the other outlets in the biased media are so in the tank for liberals that they'll consistently refer to Stevens as a Republican now that he's been indicted and is a felon, Fox News calls him a Democrat sometimes and a Republican other times. Completely fair and balanced. What's the problem here?

According to NYT, he is likely to spend at least a few years in jail. Plz to be letting this actually happen.

And let's take a moment to reflect upon the fact that the person in charge of regulating the internet for 300 million americans has no ****ing idea how to send or receive an email.

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The guy in that pic appears to be holding an assault rifle.

In a thread full of winners, this one was my favorite.

nope .. bleading hearts made it so you cant smoke in prison.

Wait a minute Adanthar. Is that FNC screen cap real? Even THEY wouldn't pull that **** twice would they?

Um, okay, what the **** is going on over at Fox News? Searching for that Stevens screencap I came across this building story.



http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/20.../35/767/645046


Maybe Fox just hates politics and chooses not to learn about it? Like the difference between the R and D.

Haven't you heard? John McCain is a maverick. He chooses whatever letter he wants.

Would've been funny if it were John McCain (M-AZ)

That's awesome.