Matt Yglesias

26 Responses to “Stevens Guilty”

1. JK Says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

   Come on Matt, if you want to talk Congressmen and convictions, you’ve got to mention “The Spitting Lyon.”

2. blah Says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

   I hope he enjoys his massage chair before he has to return it.

3. Ugh Says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

   Can’t he just run against the lower 48 states and washington as always trying to tell the good folks of Alaska what to do?

4. Mark Says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

   Traficant was convicted of felony corruption and refused to resign from congress. He was expelled by the house. Traficant ran for election after being sent to prison. He did not win that election.

   Stevens will not will this election.

5. Mark Says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

   Sorry for the typo, I meant Stevens will not win his election against Begich.

6. steve duncan Says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

   Bush was widely known to be a genocidal sociopath well before the 2004 presidential election. He nevertheless won. The U.S. electorate is quite capable of overlooking criminality in its government.

7. Warren Terra Says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

   @#2
   Blah, I think now that a federal court has ruled that the chair was a gift and not a loan he is free to keep it.

8. mark f Says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

   I should probably go to LGM for this answer, but what are the prospects of a Toricelli/Lautenberg-style ballot switcheroo?

9. Jim Trafficant Says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

   I oughtta kick you in the crotch.

10. George Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    Legal question: Did Senator Stevens declare these gifts on his income tax?

11. dcbob Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

    jiM trAFIcAnt

    I never get tired of that

12. Warren Terra Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    George, the election is a week away. The ballots have been printed; absentee votes have likely been cast. The Torricelli precedent you cite was apparently ruled on some time in September 2002 (Wikipedia links to the court ruling (PDF) which does not bear a date obvious to me as a lay reader but refers to October 1 as being in the future). September 2002 was darn close to the election (November 5, 2002), but was still long before voting had started.

13. Warren Terra Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    Oops, obviously I meant to reply to ark f and not to George, who asks an excellent but totally different question. Sorry.

14. robert aylward Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    I don’t doubt that Stevens was guilty of the crime for which he was charged, but this focus on such low level corruption (local contractors doing unpaid work for a politician) is as much a scam as the crime itself. As the real criminals escape with billions, our zealous prosecutors go after an old man with an ugly house and an ugly chair nobody would want anyway. This is absurd.

15. Grumpy Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    Warren: “Blah, I think now that a federal court has ruled that the chair was a gift and not a loan he is free to keep it.”

    Immaterial. Stevens was required to disclose loans as well as gifts. When he admitted on the stand that the chair was a loan that he didn’t disclose, he incriminated himself.

16. Warren Terra Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    Grumpy, you got your facts and knowledge all over my snark.

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