adn.com - 1/19/2009
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With less than 48 hours left of the Bush presidency, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's spokesman said Sunday that Murkowski had asked the White House to pardon the former senior senator of Alaska, Ted Stevens.
cbsnews.com - 1/19/2009
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cbsnews.com —
CBS News has confirmed that Sen. Lisa Murkowski
(R-AK) has asked President Bush to pardon Ted Stevens,
the former Alaska senator from charged with several felony counts by a federal jury in 2008. Murkowski's spokesperson, Mike Brumas spoke to CBS ...
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Murkowski Asks Bush To Pardon Stevens - Political Hotsheet
gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 1/15/2009
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gregmankiw.blogspot.com —
Bloomberg reports that the Ted spread is now
below 100 basis points. The Ted spread, the difference
between the interest rates on interbank loans and T-bills, is one gauge of how much fear is gripping the financial system. Its decline suggests that ...
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Ted is more relaxed
openleft.com - 1/19/2009
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openleft.com —
George Bush has less than 36 hours left
to screw things up. Will one of his final
acts be a pardon for former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens? CBS News says Senator Lisa Murkowski has called President Bush and requested just that: Murkowski’s ...
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Presidential Pardon for Ted Stevens?
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Pardon Us, George Bush
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... There's a long list of crooked Republicans who would love to be pardoned. Alaska's convicted felon/former Senator Ted Stevens is one of them, we learn via the Anchorage Daily News, ...
Pardon Stevens?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Murkowski goes there.
Murkowski pushes for Stevens pardon
Daily Kos —
File under "no one could have predicted"... With less than 48 hours left of the Bush presidency, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's spokesman said Sunday that Murkowski had asked the White House to pardon the former senior senator of Alaska, Ted Stevens. Michael Brumas, Murkowski's communications director, said the pardon request was made earlier this month. He declined to give other details, including whether Stevens himself wanted the pardon and had asked Murkowski to pursue it on his behalf. "It's just a very sensitive issue and a sensitive time -- a ...
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Stevens says he won't seek pardon from Bush
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 11/19/2008 — (CNN) — Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Arkansas, who was recently convicted on seven felony counts, said Tuesday he won’t ask President Bush to pardon him.
“No, no, no,” Stevens responded emphatically when asked if he would seek a pardon.
The embattled ...
Stevens guilty on 7 counts, won't quit Senate race - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 10/27/2008 — WASHINGTON Ted Stevens , a pillar of the Senate for 40 years and the face of Alaska politics almost since statehood, was convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges Monday found guilty of accepting a bonanza of home renovations and ...
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From NBC's Domenico MontanaroTraffic is backed up. Bridges are closed. It's not easy getting around Washington these days.
But the Montana delegation is hoping to have more success... on horseback.
NBC News has confirmed that Gov. Brian Schweitzer, ...
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