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Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid

Posted by kdawson on from the down-the-tubes dept.

JakartaDean writes "Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, famed Internet regulator, has lost his Senate seat. The AP is reporting that 'Stevens was declared the loser in Alaska on Tuesday night after a two-week-long process of counting nearly 90,000 absentee and early votes from across Alaska. With this victory, Democrat Mark Begich (the mayor of Anchorage) has defeated one of the giants in the US Senate by a 3,724-vote margin, a stunning end to a 40-year Senate career marred by Stevens' conviction on corruption charges a week before the election.' It's probably too early to tell what this means for Internet regulation, but at least there's a > 0 chance that the next committee chair will understand something about the Net."

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  1. Who's The Fool by plague911 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The man may have made news for his stupid comments. But remember he was put in charge by his fellow citizens. And now we will be paying him to sit around and do nothing for the rest of his life. So who really is the fool?

    1. Re:Who's The Fool by eh2o · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Losing the election does not make her any less deserving of criticism, nor for the party that put her forth as a serious candidate in the face of overwhelming evidence that she was massively unqualified, outright ignorant and corrupt.

  2. Re:To Be, or not To Be... by Idiomatick · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    maybe he doesn't want his right to beat black athiest communist gays as they enter the country while wearing ghost outfits and claiming it was a terrorist taken away from him.