Norm Coleman got dirty money from Alaska
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) has received $6,000 from VECO Corp executives. Norm may complain about Al Franken getting Hollywood money, but Norm is flush with dirty Alaskan oil money.
- For years, while VECO Corp. was flush with oil profits and in a giving mood, Capitol Hill politicians happily accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from employees of the Alaska oil contractor.
But now that two Alaska lawmakers are under FBI scrutiny as part of a growing corruption scandal involving VECO, the friendly feelings have faded and some in Washington are shedding the campaign donations connected with the company.
VECO founder Bill Allen and former company vice president Rick Smith have pleaded guilty to bribing public officials. They also admitted running a company "special bonus program" that steered money to favored candidates, violated federal tax laws and sent untold amounts of corporate money into political coffers.
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Coleman's office said his campaign books were closed and the money was already spent.
(AP, hat tip to Polinaut)
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Stop trying to cloud the debate with FACTS!
If we've learned anything from last six years it's that inconvenient facts don't matter.
As long as you speak with conviction, frequently wrap yourself in the flag or cite the so-called "war on terror," benefit from well-monied special interests, fundamentalist groups and the White House backed GOP strategy machine, enjoy a largely uncritical corporate-run mainstream media and have an army of neo-Facsist media whores such as Coulter, Hannity, O'Reilly, Malkin and Limbaugh at your disposal, facts are yours to repeatedly echo, twist, deny or flat out lie about at your discretion.
In this particular case, Coleman will ignore the matter until he's forced to address it, issue a carefully crafted statement that deflects criticism or casts his acceptance of the dirty money as common practice, apologize for the appearance of any impropriety and donate the money to an environmentally based charity. Chances are good that he'll follow up with a distraction such as some odd piece of legislation or a trip to Iraq and then ratchet up his attacks on Al Franken, probably with the help of a "527" group.
Not war on terror
Isn't it either War on TerrorTM or War on TerrahTM? I believe it's patented by Fox News, right?