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Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid
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."
lol
Senator Stevens re-election bid is down the tubes.
first... Before the tubes get dumped on...
that it got this close. I figured this would be an absolute stomping after Senator Tubes became a convicted felon.
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Has his career gone down the tubes, or did his career fall off the back of a truck? It's just so confusing...
D-e-m-o-c-r-a-t-s
Perhaps there really is a future in USA.
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One last time, because it's got a good techno beat. DJ Ted Stevens, "A Series of Tubes"
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On one hand, he had no clue about the internet and took bribes AND managed to get convicted for it.
On the other hand, it's a Democrat (Socialist) replacing him.
Damned if you do, Damned if you don't.
This means Palin won't get the Senate seat (Senate would have kicked Stevens out if he won) as a staging post for her national ambition.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Is this Nerd News because Senator Stevens was once in charge of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation?
Someone might want to tell poor kdawson that Senator Stevens hasn't been in charge of that committee for nearly two years.
Stevens goes bye bye and the tubes are already breaking down! Slashdot stories disappearing, seas boiling, dogs and cats living together!!!!
This is the end!
If Stevens had won, Sarah Palin would have probably been their next senator. Stevens would have been thrown out in January and it would be up to Governor Palin to appoint his successor until the 2010 elections. She would have most certainly appointed herself.
Notice how the WA governor race before, the Franken/Coleman race, and now this race, with each recount the vote gets closer and closer, until the Democrats decide there's no more need for recounts (when THEIR side wins). Has anyone seen recounts where the total did NOT get closer to giving the Democrats victory?
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?
As a vicious, corrupt scam artist (and convicted felon) whose major contribution to American politics was to funnel millions of taxpayers dollars into one "Bridge to Nowhere" after another, Ted Stevens is the perfect representative of one of the most influential segments of the internet community: spammers.
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This is just really sad. Ted Stevens played a greater role in the development of Alaska as a state than any other person. Most people outside Alaska are unaware that he was literally named Alaskan of the Century. Think about that for a moment.
This is not to defend him. I disagreed with a lot of what he did. (Well, to be more accurate, I disagree with him and all the Robert Byrds, etc who stuffed their states full of pork at the expense of the nation. But at least Stevens had the excuse that Alaska really got a hugely raw deal in its statehood compact, and the lack of fulfillment thereof by the federal government.)
Stevens eventually became exhibit A in the argument for term limits. Well OK, Exhibit C after Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd.) When you are in office that long, you just naturally begin to believe that that office is YOURS, it belongs to YOU. And it's not fair that after your decades of able public service, your buddies on K Street are all filthy rich while you make a tenth of what they do. After all the billions you've brought to your state, who could possibly begrudge you $10,000 here or there? Heck, you DESERVE it!
I just want to point out that at one time, there was more to Stevens' career than this, including distinguished service in the Army Air Corps in WWII.
- Alaska Jack
a toilet sits atop a series of tubes, with which the electorate flushes you to hell
adios, douchebag
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95% of African-Americans voted for Obama.
If African-Americans did not vote on the basis of race, their percentage of support for Obama would have been 64.5%, at most. Asian and Hispanic support for Obama hovered around 64.5%. Neither Asians nor Hispanics used skin color in choosing a candidate. If 64.5% of African-Americans supported Obama, then McCain would have received 49.77% of the popular vote, and Obama would have received 49.23% of the popular vote. Obama would have lost.
Anti-white racism in the African-American community is ugly.
At this point, Afro supremacists claim that there is no racism since African-Americans typically vote for the Democratic candidates.
However, even when 2 Democratic candidates present nearly identical policies and positions, the African-Americans flock to the candidate whose skin color is black. For example, more than 90% of African-Americans supported Obama instead of Hillary Clinton even though both candidates are Democrats and both candidates presented nearly identical policies and positions.
Consider the case of North Carolina. In its Democratic primary, 91% of African-Americans voted for Obama due to the color of his skin. Check out the results of the Democratic primary in North Carolina.
By contrast, Hillary Clinton received only 7% of the African-American votes. She was handicapped by her white skin.
You will hear and read plenty of articles, written by African-Americans, defending this racist method of voting.
We should agree with them. I encourage everyone to vote on the basis of skin color. If you are White, Asian, or Hispanic, then you should always vote against the Black candidate.
Now, GTFO of DC, don't collect $200, and go straight to prison!
Alaskans get $1.85 back for every $1.00 they pay to the Federal Gov't.
So Ted Stevens played a huge role in developing Alaska on my dime. I don't need to laud him for that.
What was wrong with the Alaskan statehood compact? From what I can tell, the Federal government purchased Alaska from Russian. Then turns some of the land over to the state of Alaska? And Alaska gets to charge severance tax on oil taken up there?
Doesn't sound like a bad deal to me.
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She's going to run against a Republican incumbent? That should be entertaining.
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While this is certainly true, his failure of reelection has nothing whatsoever to do with any committee chairmanship, since the Democrats control the committee chairmanships in both House and Senate, and they weren't going to pick a Republican no matter what the result of the Alaska Senatorial race.
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... should never have been born in the first place!
Glad that most of those involved are already dead.
That he's the last to go is no solas ... consider all of the millions of humans he has infected ... harmed ... violated.
That he lived so long is a tribute to hatred ... moral crimes ... pervison.
Hopfully the grave will be burned, with him in it,
for several days and nights, half a year even, a warning to all others!
I can definitely understand why a public servant would think that...that's why I advocate paying all of them alot more.
How about somewhere in the neighborhood of $5 million a year for president? Can you name one single more important job in America (or hell the world)? CEO's make hundreds of millions of dollars...we need to adequately compensate the President so that other, lower ranks can be raised (no one in the gov't can make more than the prez)
Everyone from president on down to your local cop and teach should make more...even your E-1 (lowest rank) military need a healthy (50% plus much better tuition assistance at least) raise.
I'm a liberal, but that doesn't mean I hate the free market. The free market is a reality of our system and it only makes sense to use that to our advantage.
If all public servants made significantly more money, we would have a renaissance in those seeking employment.
I can speak from personal and second hand experience that many, many talented and service minded people forgo public service because with things like student loans, etc. it just isn't a financially solvent path.
This idea has plenty of historical president...the Mandarins in China for example.
It's all about incentives...we should REWARD those who desire to serve...pay 'em what they're worth
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...governor. Now it will have it for a while longer.
The only shame is that this will be an end to the "series of tubes" jokes.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
...governor. Now it will have one for a while longer. The only shame is that this will be an end to the "series of tubes" jokes.
...governor and I forget who it is.
How true, it's a shame that someone had mod points to knock it and the next post down.
Now the series of tubes will be replaced by a series of tubular shaped bars.
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I guess someone wanted "Disagree" and thought that was the replacement.
Presidents (well, Ford at least) have issued full and unconditional pardons for any acts that may have been committed.
Then there is nothing sad about it. I know that I will not find it in any way sore to lose a fair and competetive *democratic* election (from experience - although it was not any political election). Neither should Stevens.
But of course, we know that (very) few politicians tend to get "power hungry" after a while. And very few also get a bit "money hungry". It is the fate of someone detached from the real world for a long while that he gets sensitive to these kinds of things. This is what Stevens did not evade, and this is why he lost - twice. This should say enough about this person. Yes, there are shades of grey and black and purple and who knows what, but some things are very clear, and anyone can understand the words: 'corrupt' and 'politician' put together in one sentence.
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The only shame is that this will be an end to the "series of tubes" jokes.
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No, this person is. Besides, that person's been there for ages on /.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#Vote_totals
See also 1968
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I guess you can say that his political career has "gone down the tubes".
(I'm truly sorry. I just could not resist the urge to make that joke.....)
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Nick Begich is his brother, having written the book about the HAARP array (or whatever you call it) and their famous father disappeared in a plane crash over Alaska. So you have this well known family up there which is very cool. Yes, I am a sucker for anyone who I have heard on the radio, but I am not an American, so I can't vote based on my silliness.
She'll just have to comfort herself with her book deal.
"Look at the elegance of the hand-tooled leather binding," said the Conservative Book Club, "the archival quality acid-free paper! Every copy will also come with a set of 100% all-American-made red, white and blue crayons to color it in."
Despite Palin's failure to secure the groups that McCain strategists hoped she might deliver - women, independent voters, suburbanites, those with ten fingers - her supporters insisted that she should not be blamed for McCain's shortcomings or Bush's failures. "It were all the fault o' them Muslin terr'ists," said political commentator Joe the Plumber.
Current projections show Palin taking 95% of 25% of the electorate. "I was against the bank bailout from the first," said Palin. "Lookit the rekerd. It was this governor, not that one! You betcha!"
*shudder*
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Convicted Felon Ted Stevens Fails to be Re-Elected in Alaska
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Provided Stevens doesn't ask for a recount, and accepts defeat, the republicans won't have to hold the vote that they postponed yesterday regarding his status as a senator. This time they can just let the people dismiss their convict friend from the US Senate for them.
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Perhaps the Republican party of 1964 is not the same as in 2008? Those stats are laudable. However, party value systems change over time, and the GOP has been pretty shameless about its current priorities while in power.
that is a pretty darn good idea. Hmmmm. I wonder if Rove would out W.? From the ppl that I know, that knows him, it sounds like he and W are the most spineless of them all.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Term limits are a cure that is worse than the disease. If a politician knows he has only so many years left in office, he'll be looking for his next career. And what's going to help him get a better career: doing the people's business, or selling the people out to the wealthy and the powerful?
Term limits wont eliminate the Ted Stevens or the Duke Cunninghams - it'll get them started earlier.
It was a Republican argument of convenience, but I repeat myself. Before Palin was nominated, even Republican hacks like Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan treated the possibility as a joke. Or just look at Karl Rove's comments on mayor/governors when he thought Obama might pick Tim Kaine of Virginia:
Consistency: the mortal enemy of Republicans.
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2. HALO jump from 15,000 feet with a bandanna for a 'chute
3. skinny-dipping with piranhas
4. 'snake charming' a nest of vipers with bagpipes
Racism is so last century.
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Meanwhile, I think our 'larger than the entire rest of the world combined' military budget is perhaps slighty to large unless there's some alien menace we don't know about, and I'll disagree there. I'm right there with you, politically. But a slight fact-check might be in order. Last I looked, the US defense budget is about 45% of the entire world. So we spend almost as much as the rest of the world combined, and about as much as the next 14 or so countries, combined. And that list of 14 countries inc
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4. 'snake charming' a nest of vipers with bagpipes
That's an AWESOME mental image. A scottish snake charmer.
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