Update on Aldridge

An alert reader found this webpage on Terry Aldridge's ethical confusions. The question that remains unanswered here, however, is how deep does this run? Is this happening in isolation, or is this simply the latest revelation in a pattern of corruption and ethical failings by many people and groups that we have seen unfold over the last several years?

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner's Dec. 4 opinion was excellent. The best bit was here:

If Mr. Aldridge does not, or cannot, present a credible defense, borough residents will have an assembly member whose actions cannot be trusted and whose words cannot be believed. Neither is acceptable in a public official.

It would be nice if ANY public official whose actions cannot be trusted and whose words cannot be believed were treated to this kind of criticism.

Addenda 12/9/05: Aldridge has accepted the inevitable, and has offered to resign, but he still fails to recognize that, despite his professed good intentions, he has done wrong.