If Anchorage, Alaska Mayor Mark Begich wins his race for the U.S. Senate this year, many will cheer. We here at TPM, however, will weep. For we will be losing from the Senate one of the richest founts of corruption-based chutzpah that this website has ever had the privilege to cover: Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK).

TPMtv caught up with Mark Begich and asked him about the man he's trying to send into involuntary retirement: