The Secretary of State is supposed to come up with a list of acceptable aliases so “Liza Merkowsky” will probably be accepted but “L. M.” won’t be. From what I’ve read, Alaska is fairly liberal in accepting intent.
We could probably stand a few more politicians whose primary concern is not how they will take advantage of having been a politician in order to line their pockets.
If she wins, they will have secretly have been rooting for her all along. If she loses, she’s a hates American and supports Al Queda.
Now it has come to light that Joe Miller, the Tea Party darling whose mantra is “no government handouts”, accepted farm subsidiesfrom said government in the 90s. At least he admits doing so, but it kinda weakens his platform I would think.
On CNN today ,they said the name has to be spelled properly. They showed Murkowsky aides on ads showing the correct way to spell it.
They also said there is pressure being exerted to have the spelling rules relaxed. They may end up doing it.
It seems the Palins are a little miffed at some of Miller’s debate responses:
I’m wondering if Miller actually asked for Palin’s endorsement, or if she decided that she would just butt into the fray in order to try to take out Murkowski. Miller is from Fairbanks, and people up there don’t react well to what they see as interference in their lives. If he didn’t ask for her endorsement, I’m sure he feels zero obligation to suck her (or Todd’s) political dick.
Also, I find it very amusing that Palin spent an entire morning working on a Facebook entry.
To be fair, she probably gets distracted by Farmville when she makes her Facebook entries.
At least she’s making good use of that journalismic degree.
An outfit called Alaska Dispatch (.com) is digging into Joe Miller’s employment history and has sued for releaseof information from the Fairbanks Borough. Seems he may have used borough computers to do some of his politicking, which is expressly forbidden by state (and borough) law. This follows on the heels of his accusing the borough of politicking on behalf of Sen. Murkowski. Additionally, while he is demanding full disclosure, he refuses to authorize the borough to release his records, which delineate why he left their employment. This guy is the definition of slippery and slimy.
A borough is the equivalent of a county, right?
Not in NY. NYC is divided into boroughs. So there, at least, they’re more akin to city council districts.
But, each borough is a county, isn’t it?
Actually, it’s the equivalent of a rabbit-warren.
Don’t ask me to explain. People grow strange out on America’s Last Frontier, and it seeps into their politics.
The silent refrain that must be on the minds of many Dem candidates this year: “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy!”
In Alaska, yes. Fairbanks is in the North Star Borough. Wasilla is in the Matanuska-Susitna (or Mat-Su) Borough, etc. They’re very large, with the Mat-Su Borough covering over 25,000 square miles.
So, he’s conceding the “character” ground entirely?
It’s as though he really doesn’t want the job. This gives an entire arsenal full of ammunition to Murkowski, who would be a fool not to lock and load. Unfortunately, the Dem in this race is getting no help from the national folks and really doesn’t stand a chance.
I think it means Miller is going to win. Pretty much everybody doesn’t want to have to answer for shitty things they’ve done in the past. And it seems that nobody wants to hold politicians to higher standards anymore.
Plus, not enough people will be able to spell Murkowski’s name right.