By Ray Metcalfe, the former legislator who exposed Veco for bribing Alaska’s Legislators.
If we Alaskans are not vigilant, the corruption that ruled this state for over 25 years will come roaring back with a vengeance. Former BP spokesman Paul Laird is now doing through the Alaska Support Industry Alliance what he can no longer get Veco to do for BP. The Anchorage Daily News is rehabilitating Paul Jenkins, Veco’s paid spokesman for 19 years and author of Veco’s paid for column “The Voice of The Times.”
Paul Laird
The Voice of the Times was paid for advertising passed off as journalism. It was a fifteen year sham perpetrated on Alaska’s voters that the FBI’s raids on Veco’s offices finally shamed the Anchorage Daily News into removing from its pages. ACES is a reference to Alaska’s new tax on oil dubbed “Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share.” “Faces of ACES” is a reference to the faces of saddened laid off seasonal oilfield workers that Paul Laird’s television ads falsely portrayed as laid off because of Alaska’s increased oil tax.