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Murkowski Amended Financial Disclosure, A Little
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ak) has amended her Senate financial disclosure forms to add information about a riverfront land deal since TPMmuckraker first made inquiries about the transaction.
When I called Murkowski's office in June, a spokeswoman said a clerical error was the reason they had left off the value of the senator's mortgage and written the fragment "11/0" for the date of purchase. The office has since checked off the appropriate column for the $136,000 mortgage and updated the date to read "11/06.
Local government filings show that Murkowski bought the land from developer Bob Penney in December 2006, not November. I called her spokesman Kevin Sweeney just now who said "she went and filled out the paperwork in November."
Note: Our document collection is under repair. We'll get you her disclosure form soon.
Late Update: Here is the disclosure.
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Gee - do keep us up with the Alaska minutia while the Muckraker site buries its head in the sand over the exploding scandal of the sitting Governor of New York using state police as his personal thugs.
You have so much invested in these Alaska stories - there just must not be any more time in the day to uncover a real story or give it coverage after it explodes on the national scene.
There, there, hurry fast - might be an actual Pulitzer in the New York Governor story - no wait, you are right, Spitzer is a Democrat - probably no legs to that story at all...
July 24, 2007 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pulitzer...sorta reminds me of the saying about Nixon. Whereas, "only Nixon could go to China." The corollary is that only a Democrat can fix this apparatus. As a lifelong Republican I'm sickened yet encouraged that when these legislative types are finally exposed than the protection they provide to this growing cast of John Grisham style characters will finally be stripped away and their secret arrangements brought to light. So let's light this candle!
July 25, 2007 11:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Pulitzer, what do you have to say about Andrew Cuomo's comment that the laws that allowed Bruno to use Troopers and aircraft for political business are way too lax?
There's muck, then there's ridiculous political posturing. In NY, it seems like it's more a battle between Spitzer, Cuomo and Bruno than any real muck that needs raking.
CW - "false" equivalence
July 25, 2007 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink