The amount of money the state of Alaska and news organizations are spending on the Sarah Palin e-mails — copying costs, shipping costs (or flight costs), man-hour costs, and opportunity costs — should inspire some skull-clutching. It’s all the more extravagant considering how much of the content has been redacted, how old the e-mails are and how long the government of Palin loyalist Sean Parnell had to cut out the juicy bits. But the whole fiasco could have been streamlined if Parnell’s people embraced the spirit of the state’s public records law and provided electronic copies of the e-mails rather than printing them out.
Yesterday, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell gave a speech in which he refused to implement the Affordable Care Act. Citing a recent Florida court ruling that the law is unconstitutional, Parnell said, “We will not proceed down an unlawful course to implement it.” Here’s Parnell: In its daily health care e-mail newsletter, Politico said the governor’s [...]
The Associated Press just called the last outstanding Senate race for GOP incumbent Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski, who lost her primary to Tea Party favorite Joe Miller, ran an historic write in campaign — the first successful one since Strom Thurmond in 1954. As I’ve written before, Murkowski benefited from a sense of panic in the [...]
Alaska Politics Blog : Miller’s news conference…, posted with vodpod Many of the Tea Party candidates thus far this cycle have been declining to speak to the mainstream media, while still doing local press. Alaska’s Joe Miller, though, is bucking the trend: he’s still speaking to national media (just before this press conference he was [...]
One of Sarah Palin’s grizzlies is coming back to bite her. Joe Miller, Palin’s chosen candidate in the Alaska Senate race, was asked on Sept. 19 on Fox News if Palin is qualified to be president. His response? “That’s not my role to comment on those candidates.” His non-endorsement earned him an angry e-mail from [...]
In this week’s dead tree edition I have a story about Senator Lisa Murkowski and why not to count her out despite the fact that no one since Strum Thurmond in 1954 has won a write in election. As the most highly subsidized state, Alaskans are feeling the loss of Ted Stevens acutely; during his [...]
CNN/TIME/ORC has a new poll of four states out today. Here’s a link to my story. Short version: Alaska: Senate: Lisa Murkowski’s becoming a real threat to Joe Miller in polls — but that doesn’t mean these people know how to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I come Nov. 2. Governor: GOP incumbent Sean Parnell is winning. California: Senate [...]
Wasilla, Alaska There will be two names on the ballot in the Alaska race for U.S. Senate this November: Joe Miller and Scott McAdams. But in events today for both those candidates the 800-pound gorilla in the room was incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski, who announced Friday she will seek a write in bid to keep [...]
En route to Anchorage Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski announced last night that she will be seeking a write in bid for reelection two and a half weeks after losing her GOP primary to Tea Party darling Joe Miller, a Fairbanks attorney. At an Anchorage rally, Murkowski acknowledged she’d made mistakes in the primary but said [...]
The buzz this week is about a 43-year-old Fairbanks lawyer who seems to have knocked Senator Lisa Murkowski out of the Alaskan Republican primary for U.S. Senate. So, who is Joe Miller? Right now, he’s not talking to journalists, so it’s hard to tell but here’s what I’ve managed to gather about him: The bearded [...]
