Hagan Campaign Calls on Dole to Return $21K from Indicted Republican Senator Ted Stevens

July 29, 2008

GREENSBORO, NC- State Senator and U.S. Senate Candidate Kay Hagan’s campaign today called on Elizabeth Dole to return $21,000 she personally received from indicted Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) between 2001 and 2007. According to the indictment, Stevens “knowingly and willfully engaged in a scheme to conceal a material fact” covering up the gifts he received from an Alaskan oil company in return for his help on funding, grant and contract requests for the firm. Among other things, Stevens accepted the construction of a new first floor, garage and wraparound deck on a vacation home he called the “chalet.” Dole received $1,000 from Stevens’ campaign committee and she received $20,000 from his political action committee (PAC), Northern Lights PAC. As the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Dole also accepted more than $230,000 from Stevens’ PAC on behalf of the NRSC.

“First there was Jack Abramoff, and now Ted Stevens is this cycle’s scandal-prone Washington insider — it’s a habit they just can’t help themselves break. This is business as usual for Washington career politicians like Ted Stevens, and indicative of exactly why people in North Carolina and elsewhere across the country are so disgusted with the people they elect to represent them,” said Colleen Flanagan, Hagan Campaign Communications Director. “Elizabeth Dole should immediately return, or donate to charity, the $21,000 she received from Ted Stevens – we recommend sending the money to help low-income families afford the skyrocketing gas prices Dole has failed to address for the past six years. Ted Stevens and Elizabeth Dole have been in Washington for 40 years, and quite frankly, both have shown the proclivity to put special interests and lobbyists ahead of the folks who elected them. People in Alaska, North Carolina and across the country deserve leadership that is beholden to the people who elected them, not the special interests and lobbyists in Washington.”

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