Lisa Murkowski's Campaign Underwritten By Her "Rent-An-Eskimo" Scam

Those corrupt Alaskan corporations that benefited from one of the father's biggest scams are trying to keep their golden goose in the Senate.

"Alaskans Standing Together," a special campaign committee, was formed late last month to attack Republican nominee Joe Miller and support Murkowski through ads. In late September AST took in $800,000 from nine Alaska Native Corporations -- unique, privileged, and politically connected for-profit entities created in the 1970s by legislation written by Stevens.

While the companies are technically owned by the natives, the taxpayer-funded spoils from these contracts accrue to the well-connected nonnative lobbyists, subcontractors, and executives in the "Alaska mafia" made up of aides, friends and donors of Stevens, the Murkowskis, and Rep. Don Young (R). Meanwhile the 130,000 Alaska Natives, who are shareholders in the ANCs, have received $720 million over the last nine years, which comes to $615 per native annually. In effect, the natives are unwitting frontmen for this racket.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Lisa-Murkowksi-funded-by-_rent-an-Eskimo_-racket-1225426-105059734.html#ixzz12iTiMHrz