A Call to Replace Convicted Senator Ted Stevens

WHEREAS Senator Theodore Fulton Stevens has, during his 40 years in the U.S. Senate, established a notorious reputation for using Senate rules to benefit his friends and patrons at the expense of the taxpayers at large;

WHEREAS Senator Stevens has been identified by the non-partisan Club for Growth as one of "the Congress most notorious porkers";

WHEREAS Senator Stevens has shamelessly boasted that "I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me";

WHEREAS Senator Stevens was indicted on July 29, 2008, by a federal grand jury on SEVEN FELONY COUNTS of failing to report gifts received from VECO Corporation and its CEO Bill Allen;

WHEREAS Senator Stevens was found GUILTY on October 27, 2008 on ALL SEVEN FELONY COUNTS;

WHEREAS Senator Stevens has refused to resign from his Senate seat despite the guilty verdict; and

WHEREAS the United States Senate has the inherent power to remove Senator Stevens from the chamber and request that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appoint a suitable replacement;

THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY REQUEST that the leadership and members of the United States Senate remove Theodore Fulton Stevens from the Senate and that Governor Palin appoint a suitable replacement for Senator Stevens.