Once powerful and polished, Clark admits he made mistakes
March 5th, 2008
Jim Clark - considered the most powerful non-elected person in Alaska’s state Capitol when he was former Gov. Frank Murkowski’s chief of staff - quietly told a federal judge Tuesday that he was guilty of fraud.
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Former Democratic House Minority Leader Ethan Berkowitz, who served while Murkowski was in office, called the news tragic, but says he can’t forget what he called four years of bullying tactics.
“There was an unholy alliance of big oil, the Murkowski administration and the Republican operatives that treated the Legislature and state assets as their own private domain,” said Berkowitz, who is now running for Congress.
“They operated by threat instead of logic,” Berkowitz said. “You do better with people by persuading them, than when you try to bully them, but that’s what he did.”
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