The gift that keeps on giving: corruption of our state elected officials and those that are footing the bill

7/30/06

Kodiak, Alaska

By Shawn Dochtermann

It nevers stops.

The deceitful ones attacking the honest Abes of American politics.

I just arrived back from a very successful Bristol Bay salmon season, and low and behold the mud had begun to fly in the Alaska Gubernatorial race. I only had a chance to read two of the three editorial pieces by Paul Jenkins and his Voice of the Oil companies, "Voice of the Times", as he made a fool of himself trying to paint Sarah Palin into the crossfire of the unethical behavoir that Governor Frank Murkowski and his adminstration have endured as a result of their corrupt actions with the gas and oil bills that they are determined to shove down the legislature's throat. The constitutents of Alaska have had enough of his racketeering for the oil giants. Most of the citizens of this state are screaming "NO, NO ,NO!" to any gas or oil bills while Frank remains in office.

Paul Jenkins is the same editor that pumps up Ted and Ben Stevens for the job they are doing to manipulate our state and federal government into protecting the oil companies from having to pay a fair value for our natural resources. Ted and Ben are confirmed racketeers for the Adak pollock allocations scandal to the Aleut Corporation. Now that the public knows that Ben had a secret deal (as early as 2000, but confirmed by records in 2002) to own one-fourth of Adak Seafoods after voting to award the allocation from Aleut Enterprise Corp.(Ben signed a document that purported that he had no conflicts of interest) to Kjtel Solberg's Adak Seafoods; shouldn't the U.S.Senate Ethics Committee, the FBI, and the US and AK State Attorney Generals investigate this fleecing of the American public!?

Ralph Nader even dispatched a letter to Ted on November 10, 2003, "...of the sore conflict of interest in allocating the pollack to Adak" , since Ben had interests out there.

I guess as Jay Hammond (ADN May 1, 2005 Ben Stevens: Legislator or Lobbyist?) pointed out, if you are legislator and/or a lobbyist, you can ring the bell at the bar for you, yourself, and your family, and make millions doing it if the public isn't watching.

Mr.Jenkins has been so kind to show his true colors in showing support for the crooks. Sarah Palin is the honest Abe of Alaskan politics at this point in time. I believe that Jay Hammond himself would have backed her as his candidate for governor, as she carries the same qualities that he as grand statesman of this state will be remembered for forever.

I personally met all the gubernatorial candidates in Kodiak in March (except Frank, who is making bank) and Palin struck me as the one that will do what's right for Alaskans as a whole, not for whomever will pay her the most.

I think Eric Croft would make a great Lt. Governor, it's just too bad he's not running for that position. I would just hope that Hollis French D-Senator would be appointed as our next state attorney general, as he is the kind of man that can be trusted to the do the right thing. I suppose he'll be the next one in the sites of the Voice of the Times after taking on Frank and his vociferiously fraudulent gas bill.

I'd go on and on about Ted and how he broke the very same laws he created to force crab rationalization as a rider in an appropriations bill, and how Ben got payed by the processors. Instead, I'll leave that for Sarah to fix when she becomes the next Governor of this Great State of Alaska.

Shawn C. Dochtermann
F/V Isanotski
Kodiak, AK