http://www.dropdon.com Help get Don Young out of office Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:24:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By ERIKA BOLSTAD, Anchorage Daily News, 01/31/08 WASHINGTON - Over the course of 2007, U.S. Rep. Don Young's re-election campaign spent $854,035 on legal fees, according to a new report filed on Thursday. And Alaska's lone congressman still isn't saying what the lawyers are doing for the money. Click here to read ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=127 By Paul Kiel - tpmmuckraker.com - December 18, 2007, 2:23PM We may finally get some answers about how Rep. Don Young (R-AK) managed to change the text of a bill after it was passed by Congress in order to benefit a major campaign contributor. In a letter to Senate Minority Leader ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=126 CAMPAIGN DONORS: Provision was tucked in bill without review. Anchorage Daily News, November 25, 2007 Some of the toughest money in America is made fishing for king and snow crab in the tempestuous Bering Sea. But some crab boat owners also do well on the opposite coast in Washington, D.C. Click here to ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=125 Assoicated Press By MATT APUZZO – Nov. 14, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is investigating whether an Alaska oil contractor used golf tournaments to funnel cash to Rep. Don Young, people close to the corruption investigation said. The contractor, Rick Smith, told investigators that Young personally received cash at the events. Once ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=124 BY GREG GORDON AND ERIKA BOLSTAD • McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Published: November 11, 2007 in the Anchorage Daily News, Last Modified: November 11, 2007 at 06:42 AM WASHINGTON -- As chairman of the House transportation committee, Alaska Congressman Don Young flew at least three times to upstate New York aboard a jet owned ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=123 CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Congressman hasn't revealed what sort of advice he's buying. Anchorage Daily News, October 16, 2007 WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Don Young continued to spend thousands of dollars of campaign donations on attorneys through the summer, according to financial reports filed by his campaign on Monday. Click here for full story http://www.dropdon.com/?p=122 Shouldn’t elected lawmakers feel thoroughly embarrassed at being upstaged by unelected aides slyly delivering favors at the behest of ... who knows? New York Times, October 7 If this truly is a nation of laws, lawmakers better investigate how a $10 million highway boon for some political donors in Florida could ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=121 FLORIDA: Highway money may be unconstitutional, critics say. McClatchy Newspapers, September 27, 2007 WASHINGTON -- A watchdog group asked the House ethics committee on Wednesday to investigate how a $10 million earmark for a Florida highway interchange, which was backed by Alaska Rep. Don Young, was inserted into a bill that ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=119 FLORIDA: Highway money may be unconstitutional, critics say. McClatchy Newspapers, September 27, 2007 WASHINGTON -- A watchdog group asked the House ethics committee on Wednesday to investigate how a $10 million earmark for a Florida highway interchange, which was backed by Alaska Rep. Don Young, was inserted into a bill that ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=120 The Associated Press,September 19, 2007 WASHINGTON - A construction worker who oversaw renovation of Sen. Ted Stevens’ home said his company also paid him to help run fundraisers for the Alaska Republican, a practice that appears to violate federal campaign finance laws. Click here for the full ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=118 TPMmuckraker - September 18, 2007 Last week, the trial of former Alaska state Rep. Pete Kott (R-AK) on corruption charges churned up an unwelcome amount of muck for Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK). But yesterday it was Rep. Don Young's... To Read Full Story http://www.dropdon.com/?p=117 TPMmuckraker - August 23, 2007 When developer Daniel Aronoff wanted an interchange built in Florida, Rep. Don Young (R-AK) came through -- after Aronoff arranged a $40,000 fundraiser for him. But Florida wasn't the only remote state where the Alaskan congressman proved popular in 2005. A massive transportation bill was making ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=116 From Seattle Times - August 19 Young's $10M earmark focus of inquiry WASHINGTON — Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, took campaign cash in return for securing $10 million for construction of a proposed Florida highway ramp that would benefit a local real-estate developer, a source familiar with the inquiry said Friday. Click here for ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=115 Anchorage Daily News - August 18, 2007 Local officials in Florida decided Friday to send back the surprise $10 million Coconut Road earmark that Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young slipped into the 2005 highway bill when he was chairman of the House Transportation Committee. Click here for full story http://www.dropdon.com/?p=114 from TPMMuckraker.com -  August  17, 2007 A county body in Florida voted today to send back Rep. Don Young's (R-AK) $10 million earmark. Young rewrote the language in the bill while it was on its way to the President's desk -- after passing... Click here to read full story http://www.dropdon.com/?p=113 from The Hill, August 15, 2007 For the last 15 summers, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) has hosted his state’s political heavyweights at a down-home pig roast fundraiser. But this August, pigs of a different kind snorted back at him. Click here for full story http://www.dropdon.com/?p=112 Associated Press - August 10, 2007 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Alaska Rep. Don Young or his staff may have changed the language in a $10 million earmark after it had already been approved for another project, a retired federal government budget expert said in report released this week. Click here for full ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=110 from TPMmuckraker - August 9, 2007 They say that earmarking is a rigged system, a system of organized bribery (the "favor factory" as Jack Abramoff called it). But rarely has there been such startling evidence of a quid pro quo as Rep. Don Young's (R-AK) $10 million ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=105 from Associated Press - August 8, 2007 SPEAKING UP: Investigations aside, he cautions critics "in a glass house." Investigations dogging U.S. Rep. Don Young have not damaged his effectiveness in Congress, the Alaska Republican said Tuesday, and he warned challengers of consequences if they sling rocks during the campaign next year when ... http://www.dropdon.com/?p=102 Read more http://www.dropdon.com/?p=107