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Bill Allen
On p. 141 of GR, Sarah recounts the scandal that broke just as she was taking office as Governor.
She writes, "Just as I took the helm, the results of an FBI investigation that had percolated between Juneau, Prudhoe Bay, and Washington, D.C., began bubbling to the surface. Bill Allen, the longtime CEO of VECO Corporation, the powerful oil field services company, had for years held court in Juneau's Baranof Hotel, where his firm maintained a suite.
"For decades, he was a big-time political fund-raiser, and, following the Exxon Valdez (italics in original) oil spill, his company was the prime oil services contractor. Like other business owners, Allen pressed for legislation that would benefit his company. But he pressed harder than most. Allen was friends with Governor Murkowski and his chief of staff, and with powerful Republican lawmakers.
"FBI undercover surveillance video of the VECO suite in Room 604, which would become infamous, even showed the VECO executive pressing cash into the palm of a Republican legislator. Months of videotaping and recorded phone calls earned VECO executives a long visit with federal agents, during which they admitted having bribed several lawmakers to push through legislation favorable to the oil industry. Allen pleaded guilty to extortion, bribery, and conspiracy.
"His mea culpa led to other pleas, including one by Governor Murkowski's chief of staff, who eventually copped to a single count of conspiracy. All told, a dozen lawmakers, staffers, and oil company executives would be found guilty of multiple charges, including wire fraud, bribery, conspiracy, and extortion.
"Alaskans said the Democrats weren't any better—they just hadn't been caught that go-round. But the reality was that it was the Republicans this time."
NIHIL NOVUM SUB SOLE—Nothing New Under the Sun!!
It seems that nothing has changed!
I would just like briefly to suggest that this scandal that "began bubbling to the surface" just as the Governor was taking office in Juneau is as nothing compared to the scandals that are MORE THAN BUBBLING in Washington—they are already at the surface, and are threatening to sink the American Ship of State.
Further, I believe that things are only going to deteriorate, to decay, to become worse and worse in the coming months.
If the American People, with the Help of the Lord's Mighty Arm, can get Sarah into the White House for 2017, backed by a Conservative Congress, I think that the relative trickle of Alaskan thugs and hacks who were caught and convicted will be as nothing compared to the flood-tide of corrupt individuals, from BOTH Parties, who will find themselves paraded from their pampered halls of luxury to prison cells.
I think that what happened in Alaska around the year 2007 could be a MICROCOSM of what could take place, a Merciful Lord Willing, on the NATIONAL level about ten years later—in 2017!
It is my humble opinion that the Governor and her absolute INTEGRITY and SERVANT'S HEART shone forth all the more brightly and resplendently against the foul foil and black backdrop of the massive corruption in the Forty-Ninth State several years ago.
I think the same scenario could be repeated in a few years ...
… crooks and frauds heading to PRISON just as a great American President, a second Ronald Reagan, assumes office.
The Psalmist assures us that (addressing the Lord) OMNIA SERVIUNT TIBI – All Things Serve Thee.
If the Alaskan "jail birds " of 2007 served any purpose, willy-nilly, it could well have been to make the Governor's SOUL FOR HER PEOPLE stand out all the more.
Again, the same phenomenon could repeat itself in the Years of Grace 2017 and beyond.
America, IMV, is sick of crooks, is sick of lies, is sick of frauds … is sick of selfish individuals who, in lieu of being PUBLIC SERVANTS, are PRIVATE ROBBERS—lining their own putrid and private pockets—and the American People be damned.
We are ready for something different.
We are ready for SOMEONE different.
We are ready for our SARAH, for America's SARAH!!!!
