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Ted's connections with: Don Young’s WayTed Earmarked Funds For So Called Bridge That Goes NowhereThe proposed Gravina Island Bridge, also known as the “Bridge to Nowhere,” became a national symbol of wasteful congressional spending and driver of earmark reform. On Sept. 21, 2007, the State of Alaska officially abandoned the controversial project. Lisa SutherlandLisa Sutherland, long-time aide to Sen. Ted Stevens, is one of several aides and family members connected to the Alaska Congressional delegation who purchased land that would jump in value by development by the Knik Arm Crossing. Sutherland and her husband, also a lobbyist, purchased almost four acres in October 2002, just a few months before Don Young began substantive work on a massive highway bill in early 2003, which included money for the bridge. George LoweGeorge Lowe, Ted Stevens’ current Chief of Staff, owns a 2.6 acre parcel of undeveloped land on the Knik Arm, which he purchased in December 2004 from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority. The undeveloped property will increase in value if the bridge across Knik Arm known as Don Young’s Way is built. EarmarksCitizens Against Government Waste has chronicled Ted Stevens’ egregious earmarks over the years. Don YoungYoung, age 74, Alaska’s sole congressman for 34 years, has entangled himself in a web of corruption. Art NelsonArt Nelson, Don Young’s son-in-law, is a player in Alaska politics. Nelson is director of the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, which received $80,000 from the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board created through one of Ted Stevens’s appropriations bills in 2003. Trevor McCabeTrevor McCabe was a long-term aide and legislative director for Sen. Ted Stevens from 1991-1999. When he worked for Stevens, he exercised great influence in privatizing public fish stocks. McCabe was the chief political broker for the 1998 American Fisheries Act, which privatized valuable pollock resource in the Bering Sea, giving 40% of the entire pollock allocation to 19 specific private corporations, large factory trawlers who belong to the At-Sea Processors Association. |
 
Sen. Stevens got $2.7 million for pal’s road October 25, 2008 Stevens Took Campaign Contributions From Saddam Hussein Lobbyist October 15, 2008 NBC News covers Stevens trial and the Senate race September 26, 2008 When It Comes To The Wall Street Mess, Stevens Is Part Of The Problem In rare exchange with reporters, Palin avoids endorsing Sen. Ted Stevens’ political future September 25, 2008 
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