Blogger running against Alaska's Don "Bridges to Nowhere" Young!

[karmababy]

Besides Don Young being selfish and heartless with his money for the "bridge to nowhere" he apparently also has VERY close ties to Abramoff.

Abramoff Aide testified that Alaska Rep. Don Young assisted 'Abramoff team'

Josephine Roque - All Headline News Contributor

Washington, DC (AHN) - A former congressional aide and lobbyist testified how he had access to insider information from Bush administration procurement chief David Safavian.

Neil Volz admitted that the information was used to further projects for Republican influence-peddler Jack Abramoff. He added that Abramoff took Safavian on a lavish golf trip to Scotland, according to CNN.

Other lawmakers also mentioned in assisting the Abramoff team were: Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, and Rep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio .

The testimony is part of the trial against Safavian on allegations of lying to investigators about his assistance to Abramoff while he was chief of staff to the administrator of the General Services Administration.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003762185

Blogger benfrank.net is running in the dem primary for a chance to take Don Young on with a Pro Impeachment platform.

check it out
http://benfrank.net/
http://www.benfrank.net/patriots/

and let me know what you think of the site(s)...he's kinda a friend of mine and is wondering if people will go for the innovative rollover platform, a site with lots of info for informing and motivating people, or would a basic candidate site with volunteer and contribute buttons be better?

He is also encouraging(and willing to assist with their websites) other impeachment candidates to step foward. We must stand together and demand more as the democratic party.

[Mythsaje]

1. I've got a friend up there who's furious right now

because they just voted to recriminalize marijuana. He's a major anti drug-war activist and is totally pissed because they pushed it through despite the majority of Alaskans being against it. Not a HUGE majority, but a majority nonetheless.

[uppityperson]

2. If Ben Frank is his DJ name, who is he really?

Or is he/she going to run as BenFrank.net?

[aquart]

3. How else could he get that worthless, useless, expensive bridge?

[roguevalley]

4. there's a rumor that if Young wins the primary, he's going to

resign and give the nomination to ben stevens. Behold! Prince Benjamin Stevens ascends the throne.

[karmababy]

5. ya gotta be kiddin me

that's all we need :crazy:

[roguevalley]

6. it was in the Alaska Ear column on Sunday. I say: BRING IT ON!

If the Repugs up here really want to implode, this is the way to do it.

[karmababy]

8. if he is anything like his father heh...

But I am tired of waiting for them to implode

[karmababy]

7. Don Young is an embarrassment!

Last fall, after House Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska, and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, earmarked $223 million to link the remote town of Ketchikan (population 8,900) to the more remote island of Gravina (population 50), the Bridge to Nowhere became a national symbol of congressional porkmania, lampooned by Leno, Letterman and Limbaugh. It was the most brazen of the record-breaking 6,300-plus earmarks inserted by individual members of Congress into the record-breaking $286 billion transportation bill. Even Parade Magazine, not known for its muckraking, featured the project as a poster child for government waste.

Young, a 33-year House veteran, defiantly boasted that he had stuffed the bill “like a turkey.”

[Ian David]

9. Let's allow Katrina evacuees to move to Gravina.

They've already paid for that real estate with their blood.

[karmababy]

10. kick for the morning

no tips on the website? It doesn't look like he wants contributions, only a chance to spread the message of justice and accountability.