Blog Entries by Tony Hopfinger

Palin Calls on Stevens to Resign, Sets Herself up to Appoint Successor

36 Comments | Posted October 28, 2008 | 06:29 PM (EST)


Governor Sarah Palin just issued an updated statement on Sen. Ted Stevens' guilty verdict, saying "the time has come for him to step aside." But what stands out most is the next sentence in her statement. "Even if elected on Tuesday," Palin says, "Senator Stevens should step aside to allow...

Read Post

Fired "Troopergate" Official Confident Before Release of Alaska Legislative Report

37 Comments | Posted October 9, 2008 | 07:28 PM (EST)


Former Alaska public safety commissioner Walt Monegan, the man vice presidential nominee Sara Palin fired in what has become the "troopergate" scandal, says that the statement on the matter made by Governor Palin's husband, Todd Palin, supports what Monegan has been saying all along: that Todd Palin was obsessed with...

Read Post

Alaska Oil Man And Star Witness In Sen. Stevens Corruption Trial Under Investigation For Sex Abuse

Posted September 18, 2008 | 12:52 PM (EST)


Bill Allen, the oilman who remodeled U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens's house and is expected to testify against him at his trial starting next week, has come under investigation for the second time in a year for allegedly sexually abusing teenage girls, Anchorage police confirmed to AlaskaDispatch.com on Wednesday.

Once a...

Read Post

"Reformer" Palin Accepted Donations From Indicted Alaska Oil Man

Posted September 5, 2008 | 02:55 PM (EST)


In 2001, Sarah Palin drove from her Wasilla home, through the downtown streets of Anchorage, to a large home near the bluffs of muddy Cook Inlet. The home belonged to Bill Allen, one of the most influential businessmen and Republican donors in Alaska history. Allen ran the state's largest oil-contracting...

Read Post