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Young's Defense Fund Nets $0
When you've got lawyers gobbling up $1 million plus in fees, you need all the help you can get. And in January, Rep. Don Young (R-AK) opened up a legal defense fund to help stop the bleeding. He was forced to pay out more in legal fees from his campaign account than he was able to raise in the first quarter of this year.
But through March of this year, a disclosure report for the fund shows, no one had contributed to the fund.
It's been a pretty dismal year for Young so far -- what with drawing a surprise primary challenge from the lieutenant governor and the drumbeat of bad press. The only bright spot has been Democrat Jake Metcalfe's ("Jake the Snake," Young calls him) departure from the race due to his aide's alleged role in rigging up fake websites to ridicule fellow Dem candidate Ethan Berkowitz.
Josh
Zachary
Is it the long, dark, cold winters, that creates such political snakes? Or is it a requirement of the current GOP party that requires its members to become ethically challenged?
May 15, 2008 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the case of Alaska, oil is a big part of the picture. Governments around the world that are heavily financed by a single extraction industry have a strong tendency toward corruption, and you need strong rules and strong principles to resist that tendency (neither of which the GOP believes in.)
May 15, 2008 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
And this poll says it all. You won't believe these results!
http://www.votenic.com
May 15, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
What, no furriers even?
May 15, 2008 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Too precious...
Poor little congressman can't afford the trial lawyers he's been demonizing his whole career.
I'd shed a tear bu I'm too busy ROFLMAO.
May 15, 2008 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, Don, I got another contribution right here--put it with the rest of the $0 you've collected.
Heh, a mink's not so fearsome in a cage, eh?
May 15, 2008 12:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
great comments.
I love it. $0 contributions, the word must be out that he's a bonafide sneaky snake, to have changed that highway bill for a mere 40 Gs donation.
What a cheap w*ore Congressional people turn out to be. At least hold out for more.
May 15, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Truth is much funnier than fiction.
May 15, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why don't his fellow Repubs take him aside and explain the whole 'graceful exit' thing to him? If it's not too late.
May 15, 2008 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why does he have $1million in legal fees? Does it involve hookers (male, female, underage) or just the usual Gang O' Pirates thievery?
Maybe he should on on Smitin' Pat Robertson's 700 Club and beg for forgiveness, that could net him some cash.
May 15, 2008 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tom, I don't think that goopers have the first idea what a graceful exit is. Larry Craig? Uhm. No. Vitter? Uhm. No.
I am starting to wonder if every single gooper out there isn't corrupt, deviant, or simply f-ing weird.
I swear, the only way one would leave office if they had tape of him screwing a goat...and then they would blame the goat for leading them on.
Jeez.
I hope that their continued decline is put into overload once Bush et al go to trial for war crimes. Since they have already been charged with war crimes, it's just a matter of time before something gives. Doubtful until after they leave office, but I am going to savor that trial as much as the wonderful chocolate I will get on a side trip from the Den Hague. That is one trial I will not miss.
And I hope it seals the final fate for the Grossly Repulsive Perverts once and for all.
May 15, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
OOops...that was supposed to be Gross Old Perverts party. My bad. :-)
May 15, 2008 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not true, not true. I myself in person sent the venerable furry, dark-colored, semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammal Young a genuine check drawn on my local bank for $.02 American. And I have yet to receive a thank you note. Unmannered ingrate.
May 15, 2008 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
we could senr this poor schmuck a shitload of checks for TWO CENTS, and the banking fees would drive that zero into the negative territory
jus sayin, is all
May 15, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think you get the story unless you see the guy in the speech ridiculing the audience about earmarks.
It is as if he lost touch with reality.
May 15, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Conyers would be real popular if he could get Cheney on initiating a war of choice on behalf of Americans.
May 15, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
ooops... wrong thread.
May 15, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
But don't republican lawyers work for free?
May 16, 2008 10:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Only when the task is shutting down a vote count.
May 17, 2008 12:19 AM | Reply | Permalink