Alaska Democratic Party Invites Sen. Stevens To Point Out Inaccuracies on www.RetireTed.com

Alaska Democratic Party Release | April 22, 2008

Anchorage – The Alaska Democratic Party today released a letter inviting Sen. Ted Stevens to point out specific items on RetireTed.com that are inaccurate or distort his record.

On several occasions, Stevens has criticized the site in the media, most recently today in the Anchorage Daily News story on the U.S. Senate race. Stevens asked Mark Begich to request that the Alaska Democratic Party to take down its web site, claiming it “smears and distorts” his record. The site - RetireTed.com - discusses the record of Senator Stevens, who is under federal investigation for corruption.

“If anything on RetireTed.com is inaccurate, Sen. Stevens can point that out and we will correct it,” said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Patti Higgins.

Click HERE for a copy of the letter.

“The web site RetireTed.com points out a number of questions that the public and press have raised against Ted Stevens. The site points to documented information that is cited. If there are specific issues that Ted Stevens will disclose information on and prove are inaccurate, we will make those corrections to the site,” Higgins said.

Sen. Stevens is under investigation for allegedly steering federal contracts to VECO, a company at the heart of Alaska’s Republican corruption scandal. The FBI is investigating whether Sen. Stevens had a role in arranging VECO’s big government contract with the National Science Foundation.

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