Comments on: Les Gara on Cheatin’ Politicians and Cheatin’ Prosecutors

By: Новостройки Чехии

Новостройки Чехии — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:47:50 +0000

Oil dollars are very difficult to effectively spend. Every government knows it.

By: just sayin'

just sayin' — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:00:55 +0000

I had a conversation with Vic Vickers last summer…you remember him, the guy from outside who was running against Ted in the primary?…and he told me that Norway, which started on their oil fields about the same time as Alaska , had over 400 billion dollars in their permanent fund, rather than the almost 40 we had in ours (then, before the stock market collapse), and why? Corrupt politicians who were working on behalf of the oil companies from the get go….

By: Alaska Pi

Alaska Pi — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:23:47 +0000

Thank you Rep Gara.

It is unthinkable to me that prosecutorial misconduct may undo these convictions entirely.
The question out here in on-the-street-in-Alaska was not so much “how could they (the Legs) do this to us?” but “What took so long to nail these yahoos?”

We need to feel that we have truly made some progress in signalling that the glory days of oil interests having too much say in state politics are over. We need to feel the agencies vested with standing up for us- like DOJ- are doing an aboveboard decent job.
Some day, maybe, we’ll even pay more carefulattention to ALL the whos we vote into office… gotta have dreams…

By: Say NO to Palin in Politics

Say NO to Palin in Politics — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:36:31 +0000

What? no statement by the Governor?

By: sauerkraut

sauerkraut — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:13:08 +0000

No, Jim.

The Bush administration wasn’t that focused to be able to intentionally sink federal prosecutions. These types of convictions are being overturned because, as with the actions of the people on top, the people overseeing the prosecutions were more interested in getting the politically like-minded into positions of power and influence – all the more to increase their earning capacity once out of office.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:44:17 +0000

The bush administration may have seemed like a bunch of bumblers, but I have the feeling they made few mistakes–every move, ill-advised and/or executed as they may seem to have been, was intentional…

By: dowl

dowl — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:58:33 +0000

Truth justice and the American way? Corruption is rampant and while every state has its share (think IL / Blagojevich), there seems a high concentration of corrupted misdoers in AK (and elsewhere) who ‘pay to play’ and it’s considered business as usual. The rich get richer and the poor freeze and go hungry and undereducated. Lobbyists and lobbying for $$$ has ruined many. Unconscionable crooks contaminated far too many politicians who may have thought that they could not be bought. Greed is indeed a deadly sin.

I am encouraged that information is easier to attain by the average citizen and because bloggers are on a mission to uncover corruption, Perhaps corruption will become less prevalent. Honest prosecution of white collar crime should become less attractive to white collar criminals because the collective we are watching them.

Go Les!

By: ValleyIndependent

ValleyIndependent — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:07:10 +0000

Thank you Rep. Gara.

@10 Lee323. Well said as always.

By: otrplm

otrplm — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:57:31 +0000

#20Marnie. Your right as rain on that count.
I think that kinnd of mindset on the Governments part has brought down a lot of Governments.

By: Marnie

Marnie — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:22:54 +0000

Not going after the law breakers, say of the Bush administration, or anyone else, with money or power, just reinforces the fact that “Justice,” as in, being held legally responsible for breaking the law, and or causing harm to others, is only applied to people of moderate to low income who can’t afford big time lawyers and who don’t belong to the hoity toity country club set.

That is not a Justice system, that is a despicably corrupt system of governing.