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Everyone Is Violating FEC Rules!

By | 10.21.10 | 4:56 pm

It’s less than two weeks until election day, which means the time for levying complaints with the Federal Election Commission against political opponents is well underway.

First off, Alaska GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller is accusing Alaskans Standing Together, a group that’s poured nearly $600,000 into attacking him and More…

Miller Argues for East Germany-like Border Security Plan

By | 10.19.10 | 10:06 am

Speaking of border security, Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, a Tea Partier who ousted Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the state’s Republican primary, has a proposal for how to make the borders safer: Emulate East Germany.

“The first thing that has to be done is secure the More…

Club For Growth Touts Tight Three-Way Race in Alaska

By | 10.15.10 | 9:25 am

The Club For Growth, which is backing GOP candidate Joe Miller in his Alaska Senate bid, released the results of a new survey it commissioned yesterday that show an incredibly tight three-way race has taken shape:

Our recent survey in Alaska uncovered a VERY close race in the Senate

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New ‘Super PAC’ Comes Out Swinging in Favor of Murkowski

By | 10.12.10 | 5:45 pm

A new committee called Alaskans Standing Together is providing some major help to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in her longshot write-in bid for re-election. The group filed last month with the FEC as a ”Super PAC” — the new name for political action committees that have declared their intention to More…

Murkowski Will Not Be Stripped of Energy Committee Position

By | 09.22.10 | 2:55 pm

It turns out, reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would be stripped of her ranking Republican spot on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee were premature.

Murkowski Up With First Ad of Her Write-in Bid for Senate

By | 09.22.10 | 10:01 am

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is up with the first advertisement of her write-in bid to hold her seat representing Alaska in the U.S. Senate.

Murkowski Out as Ranking Republican on Energy Committee

By | 09.21.10 | 4:04 pm

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, despite her write-in campaign to keep her Senate seat, will lose her spot as the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Murkowski Looks to Oil Industry As She Begins Write-In Campaign

By | 09.20.10 | 9:45 am

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who lost the Alaska Republican Senate primary to Tea Party darling Joe Miller last month, is calling on the oil industry for help in organizing the write-in campaign to win back her Senate seat.

Alaska Sues Obama Administration Over Drilling Moratorium

By | 09.10.10 | 9:42 am

The state of Alaska filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration yesterday to overturn the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico because, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell argues, it has resulted in a de facto moratorium on drilling off the coast of Alaska.

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Tea Party Favorite O’Donnell Falters in Delaware

By | 09.10.10 | 6:45 am

After Tea Party candidate Joe Miller’s shocking upset over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary, the media’s attention shifted quickly to an unlikely location — the politically staid state of Delaware. Seemingly overnight, the press discovered Christine O’Donnell, the perennial (and unsuccessful) far-right candidate challenging longtime More…