More Love than Tough Love for Pork Senator Ted Stevens?

Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska was indicted this week on multiple corruption charges involving failure to disclose benefits he received from government contractors.  Stevens is known as a pork barrel money specialist, bringing into his state $1.84 in federal spending for each $1.00 in taxes paid by Alaskans.  This works out to $4,783 in earmark appropriations per Alaskan – 18 times the national average.  That’s our money being wasted, folks.  The reaction of many Alaskans to the indictment is: “Who cares what he has been charged with – he has brought us a lot of money – and we want to keep it coming.”  This response falls under the old adage - ”he may be a crook but at least he’s our crook.”   Read more