This was inevitable.
Despite unanimous opposition from House Republicans to the Democrats’ $787 billion economic stimulus plan, members of the GOP are now cheering certain elements of the bill that will benefit their districts, The New York Times reports today.
Now that Sen. Ted Stevens is out of the Senate, nixing a chance for a special election in Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin might be eyeing another potential seat — Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska), Politico reports.
Murkowski, appointed to the Senate in 2002 by her father when he took office More…
Today I wrote about the possible Stevens effect — voters tell pollsters they’d never vote for a convicted felon and then turn around and do so in the voting booth.
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who was convicted in Washington last month on seven felony counts of failing to disclose More…
Politico reports that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a few questions from her traveling press corps for the first time today at Ground Zero in New York City — but she largely steered clear of taking any firm positions, other than offering strong support the Bush administration’s terror policies.
During More…
ANCHORAGE — Wow, here’s a great catch over at TPMmuckraker. It turns out that Steven Silver, the lobbyist Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hired to hustle federal earmarks for her hometown when she was mayor, once worked for the now-disgraced Jack Abramoff:
But Silver appears to have additional ties that
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