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If Murkowski Cheated On Bar Exam, Why Not Cheat In An Election?
Riehl World View ^ | August 30, 2010

Posted on 08/30/2010 9:26:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In 1987, after presumably taking and failing the admittedly difficult Alaskan Bar Exam several times, Senator Lisa Murkowski seems to have begun a long-term close relationship with a bar exam preparation company later hit with an 11.9 million dollar copyright violation judgment for wrongly acquiring currently in use bar exam questions to provide to exam applicants for a fee.

Documented by the public record below, some sources believe Murkowski was perhaps too caught up in the high-life at a heady restaurant, owned by husband Vern Martell in the 80s, to focus on passing the exam without cheating. I've heard reports that it was not uncommon to find lines at the night spot and Murkowski's social life may have impaired her judgment, willingness, or ability, to pass the bar legitimately in her younger days.

Murkowski's online bio documents the gap between her graduating law school and being admitted to the Alaska Bar, a time span in which the exam would have been available for taking four, or more times.

In 1985 she graduated with a law degree from Willamette University and became a member of the Alaska Bar Association in 1987.

Murkowski's status with the Alaskan Bar is inactive and it's believed she never actually practiced. While all of the information at this link can not be vouched for, credible sources in Alaska claim Murkowski became the state representative for PMBR in 1987.

Current U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski was in charge of PMBR or Multi-State Section Alaska Bar Exam from 1987-98 until her father, Frank Murkowski, arranged for her to get a State House seat.

As documented in a complaint filed by the National Conference of Bar Examiners against PMBR in 2003 - (excerpted below in pertinent part) - it was actually an incident in Alaska that ultimately initiated the official filing. As documented in a page 1 story in a 2006 edition of The Gavel (pdf), the action resulted in an 11.9 million dollar judgment for plantiffs in the case.

While perhaps impossible to prove so many years on, strong circumstantial evidence exists to support an allegation Murkowski took an unethical short-cut in her path to admittance to the Alaskan Bar. If it's true that Murkowski went to such lengths to be positioned as heir apparent to the Murkowski political dynasty in Alaska, it's not exactly a stretch to be concerned she may go to any length necessary to hold on to political power as she now finds herself unexpectedly threatened by an Alaskan population tired of the corrupt politics as usual in the state unofficially nicknamed The Last Frontier.

Today, Alaska looks more like the frontier in a battle being waged by conservatives to take back control of the GOP from too many seemingly corrupt elites like Lisa Murkowski.

Defendants.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BAR : EXAMINERS : CIVIL ACTION Plaintiff, : : v. : : MULTISTATE LEGAL STUDIES, : NO. 04-3282 INC., d/b/a PMBR, ROBERT : FEINBERG, and DONA : ZIMMERMAN :

The events giving rise to this lawsuit began with the February 2003 administration of the Alaska Bar exam, which was taken by Defendant Robert Feinberg, the PMBR creator and CEO, and 3 Dorothy Benson, another PMBR employee. After time was called, Feinberg attempted to leave the examination room with handwritten notes and Benson was found to have similar notes on her desk. Although Alaska is one of the few jurisdictions that allows note taking during the MBE, removal of those notes from the exam site is forbidden. After disclosure of the Alaska incident, Plaintiff obtained PMBR materials and found, so it alleges, many questions similar to those used on the MBE.


TOPICS: Alaska; Campaign News; State and Local; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2010; alaska; corruption; cronyism; joemiller; lisamurkowski; murkoski; nepotism; palin
Looks like someone up there is giving her the Sarah Palin treatment. I doubt if she'll be as gracious and long-suffering as Gov. Palin was. If she were truly conservative Andrew Sullivan would be making noises about her baby or somesuch.
1 posted on 08/30/2010 9:26:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The fact that she made noises about joining the Libertarians in a 3rd-party bid killed any support I had for her. If she would have quietly waited for the absentee ballots to be counted and told the NRSC not to intervene, then Miller and conservatives would have supported her in the general.


2 posted on 08/30/2010 9:35:08 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Posted on earlier thread today:

Joe Miller’s lawyer’s letter is below. Read it and spread the word. Shine the light on this!

http://www.riehlworldview.com/files/ltr-campbell.pdf

Call the NRSC, please. NO MORE. NO.

Dems.....
1. Palin political assassination/lawsuits dismissed one after another, etc., etc. (unsuccessful)
2. Investigator ‘living’/spying in the house next door to her now.
3. Defeat (by unfounded & dismissed lawsuit) & death of Ted Stevens, the FORMER NASA chief & son (that is, the death of people with deep knowledge) in a plane crash of unknown origin. (Status of investigation, anyone?)
4. (Dems or Murkowski—0bama supporter in costume) Car wreck of Joe Miller last Sat night (little reported & ‘no one’ injured with 3 cars totalled [????]). Riiigght.
5. DOCUMENTED Malfeasance of a plant in Murkowski’s camp with election database & communications (illegal) by texting on iPhone/iPad.

This state & Arizona are the political priorities to seize total control of the US by the totalitarians.

All reported on FR.

Call. Get out there and on the ground, please folks.


3 posted on 08/30/2010 9:39:21 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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3 times is enemy action.

5 is war.


4 posted on 08/30/2010 9:40:43 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

Link not working because “www.riehlworldview.com” not found.


5 posted on 08/30/2010 9:41:54 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

Oh.

FR thread on this. Apologies.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2580005/posts

Lawyer’s letter (Miller’s) is in .PDF in there, a few posts down. It still works.


6 posted on 08/30/2010 9:46:55 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

Sean O’Keefe, the former NASA chief, and his son were among the four survivors of the plane crash that killed Ted Stevens.


7 posted on 08/30/2010 11:45:43 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Thanks. I thought they had died, too.


8 posted on 08/30/2010 11:54:31 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I've heard reports that it was not uncommon to find lines at the night spot and Murkowski's social life may have impaired her judgment, willingness, or ability, to pass the bar legitimately in her younger days.

The-popular-girls-are-too-busy-to-be-honest ping.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

9 posted on 08/30/2010 12:58:28 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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