Alaskans Against the Mining Shutdown was the Political Action Committee created by the mining industry. According to their reports, they paid Mercury Public Affairs of New York, $106,507.80. That payment included a website and all of Tim Griffin's services and travel reimbursement. The average price for a ticket from Little Rock to Anchorage was about $1000 and takes at least 12 hours. Summer hotel rates are easily $200 a night. After expenses, Tim Griffin wasn't taking a golden salary.
If I were sitting next to Tim Griffin at a bar, I'd have a lot of follow up questions to my initial inquiry of "So, what brought you to Alaska?" Like for instance:
1.) Who called you? With all of your White House and Karl Rove connections - WHO do you know in Alaska? 2.) Did you develop any relationships with Alaskans while working on the Bush-Cheney Florida Recount Team in 2000? Or the Swift Boat Smear Campaign for Truth against John Kerry? Or in any of your illegal electioneering activity? WHO do you know in Alaska? 3.) Why would you waste your vote-caging and election-fixing talent on a ballot initiative in Alaska? WHO do you know in Alaska? 4.) What else did you do up here? WHO do you know in Alaska? 5.) Did you get to meet Sarah Palin? She came out against the initiative in a massive multimedia campaign after an anonymous "journalist" asked her how she would vote on Ballot Prop 4! Were you that "journalist"? WHO do you know in Alaska? 6.) How many frequent flyer miles do you have? WHO do you know in Alaska? 7.) Why didn't the opposition detect your presence? You're kind of a big deal. WHO do you know in Alaska? 8.) With all of your credentials, you seem underpaid. Did you work for free or was some other kind of payment involved? WHO do you know in Alaska? 9.) When you were working as an "informal advisor" to Mike Huckabee, did you talk to Alaska Congressman Don Young, who chaired Huckabee's exploratory campaign? WHO do you know in Alaska? 10.) After learning of your other "bed-mates," I can see how you would ignore Anglo American's environmental track record. Proven environmental terrorists who rape, pillage and plunder resources then leave the toxic clean-up to locals. But you're not local. Again... WHO DO YOU KNOW IN ALASKA?
Oh, so many questions. Like I said...you get at least an hour's worth of conversation when you ask, "So, what brought you to Alaska?" Unless the person in the bar is that stranger with a nefarious background...like Karl Rove Prote'ge', future felon vote-cager and election-fixer Tim Griffin. I wonder who he knows in Alaska. I wonder who picked up the bar tab.
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