FULL SPECTRUM CULTURE

Looks like the crab-apple doesn’t fall far from the twisted stump of a tree:

In disclosures he was required to file as a legislator, [Ben] Stevens [son of U.S. Senator Ted Steven] said he was paid $243,000 over the last five years as a “consultant” to Veco. Whenever he was asked to describe what he did for the money, Stevens refused to answer. The company also refused to say.

Metcalfe has argued in his complaints that the money amounted to a bribe — that Stevens has done Veco’s work on many fronts, including attempting to spend Alaska Permanent Fund earnings for state government operations to reduce the need for oil taxes and pushing the industry’s favored gas pipeline proposal.