Christmas Comes Early… RINO Murkowski Pays Back Indian Supporters Ten-Fold!
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 16, 2010, 5:00 PM
Christmas comes early to Murkowski supporters…
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This comes from reader Matthew:
Multiple Alaska Native groups combined to form a PAC that spent $1.7 million to assist Senator Lisa Murkowski in her bid for reelection last month. Now we find out that in earmarks alone in the pending omnibus bill Senator Murkowski has paid her supporters back over to 10 to 1.
Specific earmarks totaling over 26 million dollars:
http://coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=4866e250-f1e6-476a-bbc0-b7029f627fbf
Here’s a list of Murkowski’s earmarks:
Several of these earmarks were dedicated to native corporations, villages and councils.
Pretty good Return on Investiment (ROI), huh?
It is unknown how many of the DOD earmarks will end up in those same native corporations under the no bid contract exclusivity they enjoy under 8a legislation. No one knows for sure how much they will gain from contracts.
Matthew says this will never see the light of day in Alaska media. Remember this is the same Lisa Murkowski who actually said in a debate that other states should no longer get earmarks but Alaska should be exempt since we are a newer state.
Oh yeah, we currently have over $35 billion in our state savings account.
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Betsy Ross commented:
It’s so depressing to read story upon story of how corrupt elected officials bribe voters with MY money right out in the open without one ounce of caring…
Meanwhile, dumb me is scrimping and scraping pennies trying to keep the bill collector’s from calling….
Granny commented:
Alaska may be a “newer” state than all the rest, but it also has a HUGE annual income from the Alaska pipeline – enough to pay each and every state resident $1500 or so a year in Alaska Dividend and still have billions in the bank.
FedUp commented:
Lisa Murkowski is the female Arlen Specter. Sorry, Alaska, ya shoulda known better.
greg commented:
Note the 200 thousand for suicide prevention in the alaska northwest. This works out to about 20,000 dollars per citizen and provides them with a mid winter vacation in Hawaii. Why is any of this stuff part of the federal business role other than simple payback. Folks talk about how small earmarks are in relation to the overall budget. They ought to be comparing earmarks to campaign financing where this is a huge asset to the incumbent Why can’t the dirt diggers start looking at Murkowski. Illegal use of public office runs in the family and that is how her fatherstood aside for the daughter
Freddy commented:
We need to take almost ALL of the money away from the federal government.
This is the only way to end the federal back room deals for the politically connected few.
Sally commented:
It gives a better perpective to me on just how courageous and effective Sarah Palin really was in Alaska, succeeding in that swamp water of Murkowski/Stevens country.
No wonder the left is still hysterical when her name or even even the name of one of her children is spoken.
People with that kind of courage are like kryptonite to the left.
Joe Miller won the election. It is certain there was election fraud by Murkowski, which would be unassailable if the Machine did not own the judges.
This is why Reid and Murkowski had to cheat their way back to the Senate. They had much to still do to ruin us further.
squeaky commented:
[About 13.4 million taxpayers may be getting unexpected tax bills because they were awarded too much money under President Barack Obama's Making Work Pay tax credit, a government audit said Thursday.] i wonder if this will eat away some of that 40% support for obama…people are funny – as long as you can do something for them they love you.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101216/ap_on_go_ot/us_unexpected_tax_bills
Joe College commented:
The Republican Party is on life support as an organization. Once primary losers decide en masse to run as independents the party has lost all reason to exist.
WSG commented:
I agree with Freddie #5.
We need to return all the back room deals to the state and local level where they belong. At least they have some appreciation for decimals.
arnonerik commented:
This is another example of the rape of America by the people we elect. Murkowski is a thief because she and others in congress are stealing our prosperity. When these bastards get through we will be a third world country and our children will be begging for bread.
Since when did getting elected become a license to do whatever you please.
sybilll commented:
John McCain has been tweeting about these earmarks. Today’s #1 (as in THE worse), was Murkowski’s $2,000,000 for the Port Lions ferry. Population of the town? 237.
Good grief.
donh commented:
This lame duck session shows just how much the Republicans and Democrats are working together to make the common voter feel worthless and irrelevant. Republicans have no fear of all the threats and warnings ” your on probation” ” this is your last chance”. They think it is a bluff . You have just been called.
Sheila commented:
Native Alaskan Indians: just another “under-served minority” group with a sense of grievance and/or entitlement. Murkowski: just another pandering, simpering White.
Rock commented:
Well whats new crime pay’s, politicians lie, DC is corrupt, and justice comes from the barrel of a gun, just ask CZAR Ron Bloom on advise from Mao.
Chippy commented:
Just watch C-Span’s coverage of the Senate. Murkowski is always hanging out and talking with the socialist liberals.
Just_Saying commented:
Lisa Murkowski was elected by the native corporations, Democrats, and elitist GOP. She will never be a conservative, and she is an embarrassment to Alaska.
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jim m commented:
Joke’s on her. Reid is pulling back the bill because he won’t get the votes to pass it. Too bad she didn’t get support fromt the mafia. They’d come by to collect from her personally.
bobdog commented:
Update: Drudge is now reporting that the Ominous Spending Bill has been pulled from the floor and replaced with a one page continuing resolution introduced by Mitch McConnell (R-Earth).
Apparently, the adults in the new Congress will take up the budget in January.
C-CS commented:
we have the -Nat-Rep -Senatorial-Comm- (NRSC)- to thank for little lisa’s ‘win’ for the Senate–
has anything really changed?–I think not-
we’ll see when the ‘newbies’ get there–my guess – the little lisa’s of the r party will run them over….
C-CS
John Stanford commented:
You’re attacking Murkowski instead of attacking liberal Democrats.
srhoades commented:
Free Wesley Snipes!
bitterclinger commented:
Wonder if the natives still think it was a good idea to go with Lisa instead of Joe.
portlandon commented:
“John Stanford commented:
You’re attacking Murkowski instead of attacking liberal Democrats.”
Lisa Murkowski is a Liberal Democrat.
silentcal_rox commented:
senator cruella is a disgrace! and, she’s around for 6 more years! PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKE
Chisum commented:
#23 December 16, 2010 at 8:33 pm
portlandon commented:
“John Stanford commented:
You’re attacking Murkowski instead of attacking liberal Democrats.”
Lisa Murkowski is a Liberal Democrat.
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And John Stanford is a pretend conservative.
gus commented:
We are attacking Lisa Murkowski because we expect better from Republicans, and she is a fraud.
John StanTARD is a clown.
Moonbat_One commented:
I voted for Miller. I was pretty lukewarm toward Murkowski until last August’s primary. I despise her now.
nocoen commented:
Just goes to show Alaskans that if they need a whore, look to DC and book a date with Murslutski… I hear she really shows you a good time if you contribute to her reelection campaign…
Just_Saying commented:
Same here, Moonbat_One. Leaned Miller before primary (voted Miller); now, I cannot stand Lisa. She’s the sleaziest senator Alaska ever had (even worse than Gravel!!).
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Bogdan from Australia commented:
Murkowski – like father, like daughter…
Still there is no reason to mock her name. Even if she is an ultimate political slut, her forfathers have come from the country from which the AMERICAN HERO – STANISLAW PULAWSKI has also come.
My name is Jodkowski and I’m as conservative as one can be.
And I HATE LEFTISTS!
And I LOVE the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
And SARAH PALIN!
tommy mc donnell commented:
americans like politicans who “bring home the bacon.” what we really need is politicans who will see that the”bacon never leaves home.” the only purpose of federal aid is to give washington control over state and local governments. this is so they do what the politicans in washington want instead of what their local constituents want. in short, tyranny.
John Frum commented:
Don’t think we need to worry about princess lisas pork payments for the bribes taken during her “”"election”"
Looks like you’ll need to find a different way to steal from the American people. too bad. soooo sad
GLM In Ohio commented:
Yes John … It’s wonderful. Now, they get NOTHING! Glad to see someone besides us on the losing end of a politician’s promise for a change. Maybe they’ll think twice about casting their vote for pork instead of patriotism next time ….
Dave commented:
How dare those natives! How dare they ask for money for luxuries such as running water! The nerve! Who do they think they are, Americans?
Ipso Facto commented:
After Sarah Palin came on the scene I was geting really charged up about going up to AK.
I was looking for how I was going to spend my vacation there next Summer. It was between one of those inside passage way cruises and going to a nice Salmon fishing ranch.
Now I see what human garbage they voted in to the Senate and I’m going to the Tetons in WY next Summer. FK AK!
BurmaShave commented:
Have you ever noticed how Lisa Murkowski’s mouth seems to be permanently shaped in a sad position, as if she is permanently aware that she has been short changed or that somebody has stolen her toys?
(Quite different from Sarah Palin’s mouth, BTW.)
Well, now the Omnibus Spending Orgy has died, and Lisa looks just like the part.
AKvoter commented:
Oh yes, how dare Alaska Native people exercise their right to vote (received after women were enfranchised) for someone other than Joe Miller, who’s been in Alaska for all of 15 years, taking the very government handouts that he opposes. Government support is fine for people in Tok, AK; it’s fine for $70K/yearly salaried attorneys to take an indigent hunting license; and no big deal that farmers in Kansas receive subsidies to not farm the land; but it’s not allowed to fund running water/sanitation systems for Alaska Native people who have been living in their villages for 10,000 years. Their cultures are worthless, inferior, and they should move to New York city or Seattle to have running water and stop speaking their lame Native languages and stop living off the land. The salmon and moose should be hunted by white sportsmen alone. And yes, a majority of Alaska Natives are still happy Murkowski won. She’s willing to meet with them and doesn’t patronize them.
glacierbay commented:
It’s interesting that conservatives believe in local control and so do Alaska Natives. The only problem is that many people, including the state of Alaska, oppose local control when it’s tribal governments that would have it. It totally makes sense that the best governments are the ones closest to the people as opposed to bureaucrats in far away Washington, DC. The tribal governments, the closest to the people, have been stripped of their ability to govern. Instead, aboriginal land claims were extinguished in 1971 to allow access to the North Slope oil discovered, and 44 million acres of Alaska lands were transferred to state-chartered private business corporations to be formed by Alaska Natives. So instead of “Indian Country” and a land or tax base for the use of a local government, Natives have these “Native corporations.” See Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie, http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/96-1577P.ZS. They also don’t have any immediate law enforcement officers to enforce laws. The first responders are unarmed Village Public Safety Officers who have limited authority. State Troopers sometimes take days to arrive to the scene of a crime. I agree that the bacon shouldn’t leave to the feds, but Alaska Natives’ bacon, their land and ability to govern their people adequately at the local level, was taken in 1971. Now the Natives are working with what was left — the Native corporations. So I’m truly sorry that it upsets some people that many of these 130,000 Native people didn’t vote for someone who is hostile to Native communities and offers glib answers to deeply complex issues, like tribal governance or how to honorably allow subsistence hunting and fishing by Native people or how to develop infrastructure in remote villages or address the sky high suicide rate.
fact check commented:
A note to Greg, #4 poster: the $200k to Maniilaq for suicide prevention does not work out to $20K per citizen and a junket to Hawaii. I’m not sure how you possibly could have calculated that. I googled Maniilaq and found that “Maniilaq Association represents twelve federally-recognized tribes located in Northwest Alaska. The Association manages social and health services for about 6,500 people within the Northwest Arctic,” which works out to $30.77 per person. On top of that, Alaska Natives experience a rate of suicides that is more than double the rate nationally (http://bit.ly/g42bYq). Check out the region http://www.maniilaq.org/aboutNWAlaska.html#culture
Chisum commented:
Fact Check,
While you’re checking facts perhaps you can explain the fact that you have commented on this thread using three different names.