{"id":195114,"date":"2008-07-29T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/29\/ted-stevens-indicted\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T22:15:00","slug":"ted-stevens-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/29\/ted-stevens-indicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Stevens Indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll avoid the “tubes” and the “incredible hulk” jokes, as most of the ‘net does snark better than me.<\/p>\n

In any case, he has been indicted on 7 counts<\/a> related to concealing income from gifts from lobbyists and their firms, once again proving that it’s the cover-up that will get you.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, the Republicans in Alaska are so corrupt they don’t have a replacement, with the most likely replacement, Sarah Palin, who is under investigation about misuse of power to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the State Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also note that the party can replace Stevens up to 48 days before the general election, so he could drop out.<\/p>\n

That being said, I’ll enjoy some Schadenfreude, and you can donate to the Democratic challenger, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich at my ActBlue page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll avoid the “tubes” and the “incredible hulk” jokes, as most of the ‘net does snark better than me. In any case, he has been indicted on 7 counts related to concealing income from gifts from lobbyists and their firms, once again proving that it’s the cover-up that will get you. Interestingly enough, the Republicans …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,972,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-justice","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}