Ted Stevens in Leadership and Crisis, by Gov. Bobby Jindal

On Principles & Values: Accepted gifts from oil services company

The intoxicating power of Washington fuels the sense of entitlement that pervades Congress. Consider the case of the late Alaska Senator ted Stevens, a Republican who apparently accepted gifts from an oil services company called VECO, which also organized an extensive remodeling of the senator's home. Stevens denied this was a gift, claiming he didn't even know a lot of extra work was done on his house. Now let me ask you this: when is the last time any contractor did more than you paid him to do? I have yet to hear a contractor tell me, "Well, I had nothing better to do today, so I threw in an extra staircase for free."

The Republican Party professed to be a party of outsiders when it took over the House in 1994. And it was. But Washington changed them.

Source: Leadership and Crisis, by Bobby Jindal, p.106-107 Nov 15, 2010

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