Time for Ted Stevens to resign

7/24/06

Kodiak, Alaska

By Ludger Doctermann
Over 20 U.S. Congressmen signed a letter urging Exxon to pay up, 17 years after the spill. Ted Stevens should have led the list, but didn't sign.

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman recently pushed  Gov. Murkowski (the Legislature) to quickly pass a gas transportation project scheme. Two days later, Stevens was in Anchorage and bullied a Hilton audience with threats of federal intervention if Alaskans don't agree to immediately sign bad oil and gas deals. Ben Stevens already helped energy clients by tying state appropriations to passage of the plan to tax oil based on non-auditable net profits.

There's no federal intervention when appropriate, and too much federal intervention when inappropriate - not serving the people, instead bowing to oil giants. And there is one family that thinks constituents no longer count. The bottom line is: It's time for Ted Stevens to also resign.

By Ludger Doctermann
Alaskan resident and fish vessel owner-operator
P.O. Box 714
Kodiak, Alaska 99615
Tel: 907-486-5450