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 tmh711 rated 14 months ago- American Politics at WorkUndeterred in the face of a federal corruption probe, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is hosting a small klatch of top lobbyists and others this weekend for a fishing and fundraising trip to his home state. The getaway, billed as the "Ted Stevens El Capitan Fishing Event," combines "three days of some of the best salt water fishing you will ever have," according to the invite, with a fundraising reception expected to net at least $2,300 per person for the Senator's re-election campaign.Apparently, lobbyists must fly into Seattle or Anchorage and then take a boat or a float plane to get to the El Capitan Lodge on the remote Prince of Wales Island. On top of their donation for accommodations, fishing and meals, participants pay $2,500 to rub shoulders with Stevens at the El Capitan.* * * * *Anyone else find something wrong with this whole scenario??Yeah, conservatives embrace your "values" ... Yeah, Ted is anti-abortion, anti-gay ... so keep voting him in. Doesn't matter what else they do, so long as we get those superficial issues our way. Right America?? Here's a comment below the article. Probably a telling and chilling account of this thing:What the trips are really about are 'sneakret discussions' during August recesses to plot thick and thin through upcoming legislation. And ones like to Waterfall Resort years ago with Trent Lott, Dennis Hastert, Don Young et al, fit another part of the aristocracy patternings.Let's see what oil, telecom, or other sneakret legislation comes up in the next year, and trace that back to the list of attendees at the lodge, and Justice will know exactly where to start the RICO charges. It's not what we know that worries me, it's what we don't know.
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