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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (28976)	8/29/2008 3:30:23 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I think she is PALE IN comparison to Biden

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (28976)	8/29/2008 6:16:05 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Chinu: Does the AK Governor have the power to boot out a state legislator? If she does, then I can see that it would take less than 18 months to fire all of them. Was she contemplating doing the same with Ted Stevens? koan: no that is not waht happened. She just leaned on them by publicly telling the state they must go. As leader of the party she coudl make life hell for them. Lydia Green another powerful Republican who was a representative form her area also is resigning becasue Palin has made life so hard for her. There were also several high chairmen that got indicted and she humiliated them into quiting before they even go to trial. Chinu: Also, the minute she got in she put the last governors jet on ebay Do you consider that taking a old Governor's jet and putting it up for sale ob eBay as even one of the several qualities that McCain should have looked at during his choice. I see that the right wing extremists who were instrumental in putting Bush-Cheney team in office as having influenced McCains' decision thereby reinforcing McCain's image that he is going to be more of the same. koan: regarding the plane, it was a big issue up here bacause the legislature told Murkoski he could not have a private jet and he bought it anyway. The point being she slammed him. she slammed everyone who was her enemy. She laid Murkoski bare when he left. All I am saying is that she is someone to be reckoned with. PS Juneau Empire: Sounds like Murkoski is in this VECO stuff right up to his eyebrows VECO CEO Bill Allen and Vice-President Rick Smith were charged with several counts of bribing state legislators. In charging documents unsealed Monday and earlier, federal prosecutors said VECO joined with unidentified state senators and a "state elected official" to conspire to promote the version of an oil tax sought by VECO and the big oil producers that provide much of VECO's business. Members of the Legislature are mentioned in the complaint but identified only by code letters. The documents also provide an intriguing reference to a state official, however. "Allen had an in-person meeting with State Senator A and the state elected official in which Allen and State Senator A outlined a scheme in which the state elected official would receive financial benefits from VECO in exchange for the state elected official's agreement to take official acts requested by Allen, Smith and VECO," according to information filed by federal prosecutors. Alaska has only two statewide elected officials, the governor and lieutenant governor. It is not clear, however, whether the prosecutors were alluding to one of them. During the last legislative session Gov. Frank Murkowski was seen as a strong advocate for producers in a deal for a natural gas pipeline. A deal on oil tax rates was seen as a precursor to that, prosecutors said. Murkowski left the state immediately after his term in December on an around-the-world cruise. His immediate whereabouts are unknown.