How Much Did The Murk Blow & When Did She Blow It?

You know the saying: When one digs in just the right spot, he can find all manner of buried treasure:

Senator Lisa Murkowski has now twice been confronted with allegations that she routinely abused cocaine, sometimes in a somewhat public manner, and has opted to not deny those allegations on both occasions....

Okay, here's a question: Liviana Marvenek is - was - a Republican, correct?  And she's run for, and won, election to that Alaska Senate seat at least once before, right?  So riddle me this: How is it that this little tooting revelation never saw the light of day before?  Or were these snootsful consumed since 2004?  Why has this never stirred up as an issue with which the Dems brought Princess Bolivian Marching Powder down?  Is Tony Knowles, her Donk opponent six years ago, really that piss-poor at oppo-research?  Hmmmm.

Dan Riehl writes that he'd heard these drug rumors but didn't bother pursuing them until Lursa Meningitis' GOP primary defeat and about-face on accepting the primary result lent credence to her lack-of-character issues.  So he sent her campaign the following list of scandal questions, which were not limited to what went up her nose:

1) Has Senator Murkowski ever used cocaine recreationally prior to her holding elective office at the state, or federal level? Has she ever shared same in the past, without cost, with friends and or associates, including at a then downtown Anchorage restaurant owned by her husband?

2) It's also been alleged that this was something of an open secret within a relatively small circle of friends and associates in Alaska. If true, is that a correct characterization?
 
3) Has the Senator ever been confronted with said allegations? If so, how did she respond?
 
4) Has her husband, Verne Martell, ever been involved with a police matter in California? Did Lisa's father Frank ever use his influence to minimize said matter, if not in essence, make it go away? Has she ever been approached by CA or AK media in this regard?
 
5) Finally, as it will likely be briefly re-visited in a pending item, the Senator recently spoke well of PMBR, see link below, despite its having been hit with an 11.9 million dollar judgment for copyright violation. Would the campaign care to comment as to how her experience with PMBR relates to the copyright issue? Any comment as to any concerns that the acknowledged assistance from PMBR could be construed as her having gained insight to copyrighted questions for which (bar exam) testing candidates should not have had access?

The reply from Team Mronkogorski: crickets.  Which can be interpreted in one of two ways: (1) It isn't true, and they're not going to dignify it with a response that will knock them off their "Lulu will keep the continent-spanning thundering herds of swine squealing Alaska-bound"; or (2) It is true, and they'd prefer not to talk about it.

So Riehl dug.  And dug.  And dug.  It seemed almost as if Alaskans were caught in the vice grip of fear, as if something terrible would happen if anybody spoke a discouraging word about the Mephibosheth Dynasty or its misbegotten heir.

But eventually he hit paydirt:

After weeks of networking through contacts in Alaska, I ultimately reached attorney Richard (Rick) J. Helms who was keenly aware of similar allegations, evidently as a result of his having challenged Lisa Murkowski in her first bid for office back in 1998. “I received many calls back then alleging that Ms. Murkowski used cocaine in substantial amounts for a prolonged period of time" said Helms. While Helms ran against Murkowski as a Republican in 1998, he's currently registered non-partisan.

Said Helms, “I told some of the callers that if the information, well if the information if it was true it was clearly a felony crime, and they could contact the police or the District Attorney, or if they wanted even Crime Stoppers where they could remain anonymous. The answer was almost always the same which was “they won’t do anything because she’s Lisa Murkowski, or she is Frank’s daughter.”"

Helms claims to have brought the allegations directly to the attention of Murkowski back then in a private conversation at the television studios of KAKM television, where they were appearing together at a candidate forum called "Running."

Murkowski did not deny the allegations, though Helms did then tell her he did not plan to inject them into their campaign - and he didn't. Days after, Murkowski is said to have followed up with a note. "She sent me a handwritten note a couple of days later with some comments about the party, issues and mentioned that she would hold me to my word regarding me not mentioning the cocaine during our campaign.”

Gee, no threat or menace there, was there?  Makes you wish Helms had used Morlockgong's Big Rock Candy Mountain and/or her Kennedyesque cheating on the Alaska bar exam against her twelve years ago and saved us all this heartache.

So, having shivved her party for the capital crime of refusing to renominate her to her daddy's Senate seat, all this filthy linen, which somehow never existed before, is rolling out now, fetidly fluttering in the perfidious gale-force breezes she stoked and unleashed.  Concludes Riehl:

So, what to make of Lisa Murkowski, given her and her campaign's inability, or lack of desire, to speak to these issues when asked? Does she look like a proud public servant born to serve? Or the child of a powerful man filled with such an undeserved sense of entitlement, she would flout her state's drug laws by snorting coke in some downtown bar, while aspiring to a position where she gets to pass them, once she managed to pass the bar exam and daddy had the nerve to appoint her, of course?....

Based on what I've seen and heard, both on and off the record, Lisa Murkowski represents the absolute worst of American politics.

This, ladies and gentlemen, THIS is the bug-eyed crack-whore who has the temerity to cowardly demand through surrogates that her Republican primary conquerer Joe Miller "answer questions about his background".

Oh, and she's caught up to G.I. Joe as well.  A teeth-gnashing fact that makes the reluctance of her erstwhile GOP colleagues to strip her of her seniority and committee assignments a month ago look prescient and even wily, until you realize that there are two sides to any quid pro quo, and Lila Morningafter has the honor and ethics of a barnyard animal.

For the love of God, Alaska, even Massachusetts has thrown off dynasticism.  Don't do this.