"Stand By Your Man" .. you betcha!

[DemoTex]

Stevens to Alaska voters: 'Stand with me'

Proclaiming his innocence, convicted Republican Sen. Ted Stevens asked Alaskans to "stand with me" as he pledged to defend the Senate seat he has held since 1968.

"I ask that Alaskans and my Senate colleagues stand with me as I pursue my rights," Stevens, the longest serving Republican in the Senate, said in a statement Monday. " I remain a candidate for the United States Senate."

A jury on Monday convicted Stevens of seven counts of making false statements on Senate ethics forms to hide hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and work on his Alaska home from an oilfield contractor at the center of a corruption investigation in the state.

Stevens, 84, is the first senator convicted of a felony since Harrison Williams, a New Jersey Democrat, was convicted on bribery charges in 1981. Senate rules do not require Stevens to resign his seat. (More ..)



http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/28/stevens.verdict/index.html

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Ted wouldn't be the first convict that "Didn't Do It"

Trust a republican?