Lisa Murkowski is going to run a write-in campaign against Joe Miller, the Republican Senate nominee, in Alaska.
Murkowski, during the primary against Joe Miller, used her ranking status on the Senate Energy Committee as a key selling point.
Murkowski is no longer the Republican nominee and is running against the Republican nominee, forcing the GOP to spend money in Alaska it might otherwise not need to.
The GOP leadership in Washington made a big deal out of removing Murkowski from the Senate GOP leadership, but that is all for show.
If the Republican Party is serious about supporting Joe Miller, the GOP must remove Lisa Murkowski from her ranking position on the energy committee. They must take that selling point away from her.
If the GOP does not, one can hardly blame the grassroots for thinking Senate Republicans are yet again willing to betray their base.
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Dan Spencer
Jeff Emanuel
Neil Stevens
Erick: The second she registers to run as an "Independent," doesn't that disqualify her...
minncon (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 3:56PM EDT (link)from holding onto ANY post marked for Republicans – vote or no vote!
Of course, her pals in the Senate would probably just decide they suddenly NEED a third party representative on the committee.
“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, “Well, what do you need?” -Steven Wright
Remove Her from ALL Committee Posts
fideist Friday, September 17th at 6:21PM EDT (link)Force her to caucus with the Dems. Tell her if she wins in November and cause the Republicans to not get the majority, she will not be allowed to caucus with them.
I agree, we need to raise the stakes
constitutionalconservative (Diary) Saturday, September 18th at 9:53AM EDT (link)We shouldn’t just remove her from all committees, we should make it clear that she will not be welcome in our caucus when she gets back. It’s far worse to show weakness and coddle the establishment here than it is to have the possibility of losing the seat.
For crying out loud!
WY_Cowboy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:04PM EDT (link)Do we not have much larger things to worry about than this? Really. I mean this is pretty petty.
Sure, she should be removed, but the threat is juvenile. She is irrelevant, even in that position, so let’s just move on and stop beating the dead horse.
If you think this is petty, then you don't understand
eburke (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:10PM EDT (link)Washington politics.
If Lisa does, indeed, run as an Independent then this *must* be done for two reasons:
1) it deprives her of a major selling point of her candidacy; and,
2) it sends a message to other possible defectors that such disloyalty will be dealt with.
One of the biggest problems the ‘Pubs have is that they allow folks to wander off the caucus reservation on major issues and suffer no consequences. Running as an Independent against *your* Party’s nominee is about as big of a reservation wander as you can get. To do nothing is to send a major message that you can do anything you dang well please and there will be no consequences.
There’s enough of that already.
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Unified Patriots
I understand Washington politics
WY_Cowboy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:16PM EDT (link)very well. I also agree that defectors should be dealt with. However, she is not running a write-in campaign and this kind of rumormongering is irresponsible.
If she runs a write-in campaign, cut her head off. Let’s not cut her head off first and push her to it. Besides, she knows she’s done. She knows she can’t win.
Let’s move on.
"However, she is not running a write-in campaign"
eburke (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:23PM EDT (link)And you know this for sure how?
Again, you apparently not only don’t understand how Washington works, you don’t understand how human nature works.
The *best* time to make these comments to Lisa is *now*, before she decides so that she is well aware of the consequences of what will happen if she runs.
Right now, Republicans in leadership positions (and I hope this includes McConnell and Cornyn) should be shouting to her from the rooftops that if she’s a team player they have her back in future candidacies but if she runs as an Indpendent they will make her life living hell.
Carrot….meet stick.
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Unified Patriots
If she does it . . .
WY_Cowboy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:29PM EDT (link)then she has already decided to do it and the leadership in Washington can’t do anything about it, except strip her of her committee assignments. If she actually runs a write-in campaign, then they should take her down. However, they don’t need to do anything until she does something, and if they did, it would only serve to push Murkowski supporters away from Miller. If they hold tight for Murkowski to jump ship, then they can cut her throat without losing too many GOP Murkowski supporters.
Better for her to leave the party than to be thrown out.
That's my whole point. It's all in how you phrase it to her *now*
eburke (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:33PM EDT (link)She needs to understand that if she runs as an Independent, *we* won’t be throwing her out of the Party…she will be throwing *herself* out of the Party.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of the number of things I didn’t do as a child because my parents made it abundantly clear *before* I engaged in desired behavior exactly what would happen to me if I did.
Same thing here. Based on what’s coming out of AK, this is not idle speculation. No decision has been made before it’s announced publicly. The GOP has a habit of not holding their caucus accountable for their actions. It is entirely reasonable to assume that Lisa thinks she may be able to get by with this.
The time for the GOP leadership to disabuse her of those ideas is *now*.
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Unified Patriots
Okay . . .
WY_Cowboy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:40PM EDT (link)agreed.
And having now read your subsequent posts,
eburke (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 5:07PM EDT (link)it’s clearer that we disagree(d) only on timing, not consequences.
AFAIC, we’re cool
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Unified Patriots
I would agree with this
Jack_Savage (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:44PM EDT (link)We need to wait. All of us.
It's not petty, it's just about eight hours too early
Change Jar Conservative (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:23PM EDT (link)However, I would say that the GOP should communicate the above threat to her very clearly PRIOR to her announcement so she’s aware of what is going to happen.
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Formerly know as “Oz” in these parts
DeMint might disagree
Brian Paasch Friday, September 17th at 9:05PM EDT (link)“To do nothing is to send a major message that you can do anything you dang well please and there will be no consequences.”
I wonder if Jim DeMint would agree with that statement….
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“Be respectful…” Did that. Didn’t work. Now I’m cranky.
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Never Let Up.
Douglas Erley (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:14PM EDT (link)It may seem petty, but tough. Keep the pressure on. Never give an inch. She is a traitor to the party. We must lean on these people. They are the enemy. Press the offense. They must learn that nothing goes unnoticed. Betray us and pay the price.
Is this for sure? There has been so much smoke on this
JSobieski (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:05PM EDT (link)that I don’t want to go into civil war mode without being 100% certain.
Did you know that China has been losing manufacturing jobs since 1995? For the specific data, see Table 1 in the following link: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art2full.pdf
I hope you know this on better authority than Dan Fagan's
Achance (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:05PM EDT (link)totally unsourced piece in The Alaska Standard.
In Vino Veritas
Achance are you saying she will not run
deano64 (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:21PM EDT (link)as a write in candidate? Or rather that it hasn’t been confirmed?
Precinct Committeeman before it was cool.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
Alexis De Tocqueville
Lisa Murkowski: RINO Support
chihank Friday, September 17th at 4:05PM EDT (link)Murky spoke with “moderate” GOP Senators about the write-in campaign. The Maine Senators were among the people Murky spoke with.
Maine Senators.
Douglas Erley (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:15PM EDT (link)They’re next
speaking of snowe and collins...
philhoganjr (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 6:35PM EDT (link)now that the stimulus has been deemed a failure, has anyone asked them how they feel about their votes for in favor of it? seriously. i want to know whether they’re sorry for that vote, whether they would do it again, etc.
Snowe in 2012 and Collins in 2014
reverelth (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 7:09PM EDT (link)It’s not too soon to start cultivating potential replacemnts. They need to get used to hearing “footsteps” in their own backyard.e
http://www.libertytreehugger.com
Change we can believe
Brian Paasch Friday, September 17th at 9:08PM EDT (link)Hopefully they’ll do a tearful press conference and bemoan how “the party has left them” and pull the tissue thin mask off and put Ds after their name. Enough of the fakery and lies!!
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“Be respectful…” Did that. Didn’t work. Now I’m cranky.
http://roughedgesandsharpelbows.blogspot.com/
I know she lost . . .
WY_Cowboy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:08PM EDT (link)but she wasn’t a bad senator. The way she got the job was bad, but she did a good job. Sarah just doesn’t like her or her dad. Whatever,
So...are you saying you're ok w/her not abiding by
eburke (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:11PM EDT (link)the will of the same Party that she was so willing to use to get her power in the first place?
‘Cause that’s what it sounds like.
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Unified Patriots
Maybe you should confirm
WY_Cowboy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:19PM EDT (link)her actual intentions before questionning my loyalty. I’ve been at this, fighting for conservative principles, for a very long time and don’t need lectured by the likes of you.
But like I said . . .
WY_Cowboy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:21PM EDT (link)if she actually does it – hold her accountable and take her down.
Well apparently Republicans in Alaska don't
deano64 (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:27PM EDT (link)agree with you and decided Joe Miller would do a better job. Maybe you ought to respect that.
Precinct Committeeman before it was cool.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
Alexis De Tocqueville
1) You'll notice I said 'If'
eburke (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:29PM EDT (link)2) Previous to this you had made two comments on this situation. Both of them discounted and blew off any notion that there should be retribution.
3) If you’ll look at what’s been reported in the ADN, this isn’t just some unfounded rumor.
4) I didn’t accuse you of anything. I asked you a question followed by what my impression was. From that you got all defensive and accusatory.
My suggestion would be to write more precisely so that people better understand the points you wish to make and to actually better parse what you’re reading.
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Unified Patriots
Look, all I am saying is that
WY_Cowboy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:37PM EDT (link)she was a pretty good senator from a conservative point of view. I respect the decision of the GOP voters in AK and have given Miller some money. Keep in mind, though, Miller didn’t exactly blow Murkowski out. It was close.
Again, I think we need to wait and see what she does before we start retribution. Besides, I doubt she does it.
she was?
philhoganjr (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 6:44PM EDT (link)how’s that? b/c she was the queen of appropriations and looked out for alaska in that way? b/c she voted with the party on most big issues? most rankings say she was somewhere b/w the 4th and 8th most liberal republican senator. did i mention she was from alaska? i know that’s not wyoming, but it ain’t maine either.
common, cowboy. you’re way off base here, and you know it.
Sore Loser
lbjgal (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 7:43PM EDT (link)Senator Murkowski took Joe Miller as a joke. If Murkowski was on her job , she would have won. Although End of Story!
lbjgal
Sore Loser
lbjgal (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 7:43PM EDT (link)Senator Murkowski took Joe Miller as a joke. If Murkowski was on her job , she would have won. Although End of Story!
lbjgal
Hope it's not true, but
someone Friday, September 17th at 4:11PM EDT (link)ADN
Apparently it was on her cousin’s Facebook as well.
How do you spell "Murkowski"
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:39PM EDT (link)How do you spell “Murkowski”
S-O-R-E-L-O-S-E-R
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
Miller should run adds that say write-in W H O R E
Tbone (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:42PM EDT (link)if people don’t want to vote for him.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
So I guess this would move this seat from
deano64 (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 4:45PM EDT (link)Likely GOP to Likely Dem.
Precinct Committeeman before it was cool.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
Alexis De Tocqueville
I'm not an expert in AK politics by any means but
eburke (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 5:12PM EDT (link)I don’t necessarily think so.
First of all, write-in candidacies have a horrific history of failing miserably (the only one I recall being successful for a federal office was in CA about 20 years ago when some guy (I think his name was Packard) won a write-in campaign for Congress.
My guess would be that the few votes that Lisa gets will come pretty much from those folks who wouldn’t have voted for Miller anyway but who don’t like McAdams ’cause he’s a nothing. So I’d guess that she draws equally from both.
I can’t believe she would be this stupid. Aside from agreeing or disagreeing with her politics, this is just dumb.If the rumors are true, it will mean that she didn’t learn a thing from her dad. Art, who’s forgotten more about AK politics than I’ll ever know, has repeatedly said it was the dumbest move of his administration and led to his loss to Palin.
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Unified Patriots
I hope you're right. I just can't imagine what many
deano64 (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 6:17PM EDT (link)of the Republicans who did support her in the primary now think of her. I have to think most of them are looking at her and wondering who the hell she thinks she is and hows she’s obvioiusly desperate to hold on to power.
Precinct Committeeman before it was cool.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
Alexis De Tocqueville
Murkowski Will Run As Write-In
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 5:37PM EDT (link)Murkowski Will Run As Write-In
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/09/murkowski_will.php
EE is right:
Republicans Must Remove Lisa Murkowski From The Energy Committee
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
I'm waiting for Castle to do the same
Scope (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 5:53PM EDT (link)they aren’t going down without a fight for their right to keep there cheek imprints on their Senate chairs, and their power.
They really really don't get it
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 6:06PM EDT (link)Murkowski running as a write in will only fire up the Miller supporters that much more. If Castle did the same thing an avalanche of more support will head O’Donnell’s way.
Karl Rove’s rant & rave really helped O’Donnell rake in the cash.
Keep it up RINO’s the whole world is watching.
I would love to do a spoof of Murkowski, Castle, Bennett talking to an Elephant wondering what went wrong……
Ruling Class RINOs Draw Line in the Sand Over the Delaware Race
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091410/content/01125108.guest.html
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
Castle
Brian Paasch Friday, September 17th at 9:15PM EDT (link)I’m still concerned that Castle might formally endorse and maybe even actively campaign for Coons. He’s a lame duck in the House. He’s a non-starter in the Senate. He’s, umm, “elderly”. He’s done.
From his perspective, he has nothing to lose and his spiteful pride to gain by actively undermining that impudent youngster who thrashed him in the election.
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“Be respectful…” Did that. Didn’t work. Now I’m cranky.
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Republican leadership
redtillimdead (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 7:20PM EDT (link)Has hinted they will force her out of her leadership position too. One possible replacement? Tom Coburn. There is one win in this situation!
Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.
Sore Loser
lbjgal (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 7:53PM EDT (link)I am tired of sore losers! When I lose I go home…. I have another year until that offically happens in the job market in D.C…
lbjgal
She will run as a write in independent candidate.
Achance (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 7:56PM EDT (link)When she left Alaska day before yesterday to return to DC, she had decided against running. In DC yesterday she got muscled by the “true conservatives,” said to Hell with you, and came back to Alaska to announce that she’s running as a write in.
I wrote Lisa encourageing her to put an end to it and walk away. I shook Joe Miller’s hand yesterday and told him I would support my Party’s nominee. Needless to say, my phone has been ringing, my email is full, and my arms are sore from being twisted. The real problem is that a LOT of people that I really like and respect are supporting her decision. They don’t think they’re bolting the Republican Party to support her and don’t think they really are a part of the Palin Party. I KNOW I’m not a part of the Palin Party. So, I have an hour to decide whether I go to the Lisa Kickoff gathering or not; people do keep score about this sort of thing.
In Vino Veritas
Its the titanic AChance, all she can do is sink it for everybody
JSobieski (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 8:38PM EDT (link)frankly, I am hopeful that she will change her mind before absentee ballotts start getting filled out.
Did you know that China has been losing manufacturing jobs since 1995? For the specific data, see Table 1 in the following link: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art2full.pdf
As I said when this all started right after the Primary,
Achance (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 9:01PM EDT (link)the most likely outcome of a Murkowski write-in would be to elect the Democrat. I wrote her to that effect encouraging her to walk away. That said, the demographics of the election are very interesting. Miller is casting his lot with the Railbelt or Roaded Area districts, casting the coastal and rural areas to McAdams or Murkowski, and staking his fortune on whether he can take Anchorage, which Lisa carried largely.
Nothing is going to change in the interior except the SIVV types won’t be as motivated; there’s no parental notification initiative on the ballot to turn them out. Nothing much is going to change in roadless Alaska except a little bit from the relative amount of money spent by McAdams and Murkowski. Miller doesn’t need to even campaign in these areas other that a fundraiser in the bigger towns to take up collection from people who play politics or who do business with government. So, the battle is for the hearts and minds of Anchorage urban voters.
Robin Taylor got twenty percent of the vote in the ’98 Governor’s race in a last minute rush to try to do something after John Lindaurer got taken out. Alaska may be remote, but almost everybody has internet and a cellphone. It is very different from either ’98 or ’78 in terms of organizing a write-in. And there are a lot of very highly motivated, skillful and well-off people who would like to see Sen. Murkowski win as a write-in candidate. They think they can make history.
In Vino Veritas
I'll Put Money Down Now That Murk. Doesn't Break 25%
IJB Friday, September 17th at 9:28PM EDT (link)In fact, if I was smart, I’d probably set the ‘line’ far lower…
The question isn't how low Murk goes... it's whether she takes enough from Miller for the Dem to win. [nt]
acat (Diary) Saturday, September 18th at 12:19AM EDT (link)——
Caveat Suffragator
I think she'll make the democrat unelectable
cordpt Saturday, September 18th at 12:25AM EDT (link)At least that’s what 2 polls on 3-way raced showed: she draws more votes from McAdams. And that was with Murkowski running on a 3rd party line, not as a write-in candidate.
Maybe she can spend all her money attacking Miller and depress a sizeable part of his voters? I doubt it, I think Miller’s support is profound enough to hold on.
I've Outlined The Scenario Elsewhere, But Miller Looks Solid...
IJB Saturday, September 18th at 12:28AM EDT (link)I don’t see Miller getting less than 40%. He definitely won’t get less than 33%.
Murk. can’t win this without McAdams’ support collapses.
And McAdams is too weak a candidate to profit from the chaos that Murk’s candidacy will generate.
My guess is that the final tally will be something like:
Miller – 40-45%
McAdams – 30-35%
Murk. – 20-25% (and this is probably Murk’s *best* possible showing too…)
AK voters aren’t fools: they aren’t going to put an Obama minion in there (twice!) in the current political environment – AK, more than any other state, can’t afford 2 more years of unfettered Obama agenda…
I really hope you're right nt
aesthete (Diary) Saturday, September 18th at 12:32AM EDT (link)“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke
Murkowski won't do better than Crist in Florida
JSobieski (Diary) Saturday, September 18th at 12:41AM EDT (link)since the actually act of writing in is a big deal.
Did you know that China has been losing manufacturing jobs since 1995? For the specific data, see Table 1 in the following link: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art2full.pdf
I would like to believe AK voters aren't fools...
acat (Diary) Saturday, September 18th at 12:35AM EDT (link)but then, I figured Illinois voters weren’t fools.. and I was also a foolish Illinois voter once upon a time.*
Mew
* voted for the corruptopublican George Ryan instead of Glenn Poshard.
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Caveat Suffragator
Acording to Art, if they don't think his way...
gekster (Diary) Saturday, September 18th at 12:41AM EDT (link)then they are fools.
(sorry for saying this, but it’s true.)
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”
Correct. He said the Miller voters were a bunch
deano64 (Diary) Saturday, September 18th at 3:41AM EDT (link)of “crazy buggers” who only voted for him because of all the outside money.
Precinct Committeeman before it was cool.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
Alexis De Tocqueville
best play now is to ignore Murkowski
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, September 18th at 12:37AM EDT (link)of course do everything we can to defeat her, but the party types should probably not openly pound on her too much at this point. We don’t want her to get sympathy votes or Alaskans standing up for another Alaskan type thing.
Molon Labe!
How are they "not bolting the Republican party"
reverelth (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 9:02PM EDT (link)to support her?
That was a fantasy land as soon as the primary voters spoke.
http://www.libertytreehugger.com
RINO suicide march
waxmanlaw Friday, September 17th at 10:02PM EDT (link)I hate to use the term RINO but it seems to me that they are on a suicide march. NV, UT, FL, PA (Specter is the ultimate), DE, and finally the disgrace in AK.
Someone please tell me when a moderate REP has lost a primary to a conservative when have they endorsed the conservative for party unity. Tell me, just one. I don’t care if you make me look like a fool. KY maybe but that is the Senate leader’s home state, he had no choice.
And they wonder why conservatives are so mad. The moderates are marching themselves right out of the party.
To answer your question, moderate Republican Jason Allen in MI-1...
ffc99 Friday, September 17th at 10:12PM EDT (link)lost a primary by 15 votes to Dan Benishek, decided against asking for a recount and graciously endorsed his opponent.
Lowden endorsed Angle
cordpt Friday, September 17th at 10:29PM EDT (link)The idea that “soreloserismis” is correlated with ideology is bogus.
Lowden support was tepid
waxmanlaw Friday, September 17th at 10:49PM EDT (link)The NV race would be no contest but the support for Angle in June was tepid and even now I think that Tarkanian is secretly disdainful of Angle. Lowden and him both hindered Angle out of the primary. Although, Lowden is the classer act. I still beliieve the ideology correlation is strong.
Tarkanian is actively campaigning against Reid
Kyle-MI (Diary) Saturday, September 18th at 12:47AM EDT (link)He is raising money and running commercials to fight Reid. Is it self serving? Probably, but it is helping Angle, too.
Did Allen keep his old job?
waxmanlaw Friday, September 17th at 10:24PM EDT (link)Thank you for MI-1. A obscure district almost to Canada. I have been to the UP of MI. Nice Country. Escananba is a quaint little town. Lake Michigan is awfully cold, even in July.
Maybe we should make all the RINO senators go to a gracious seminar with Mr. Allen as the keynote speaker.
Unfortunately Mitch "the Jellyfish" McConnell doesn't have the stones to do something like that, it might be seen as actually making a hard choice. (nt)
Mike Ferguson (Diary) Saturday, September 18th at 3:24PM EDT (link)Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan
Apparently Murkowski will lose her committee positions
nepanyrush Saturday, September 18th at 8:44PM EDT (link)Miller has stated that he has been told by senior GOP officials that Murkowski will lose her positions and Sen. McConnell has stated:
” I informed her that by choosing to run a campaign against the Republican nominee, she no longer has my support for serving in any leadership roles, and I have accepted her letter of resignation from Senate leadership. ”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/247000/miller-murkowski-refuses-relinquish-power-robert-costa
Leadership position differs from committee position.
klondike Monday, September 20th at 7:45PM EDT (link)The AP is reporting:
Murkowski last week resigned her leadership position within the Republican conference. She said she didn’t want her decision to stay in the race to cause dissension within the group. Murkowski maintains her committee positions, including that as the top Republican on the Senate Energy Committee.
GOP rules allow any Republican senator to seek her removal by forcing a secret ballot vote of the 41-member caucus, but that is unlikely to happen before the Nov. 2 general election, according to GOP staffers and other observers. There are only a few weeks left in the legislative session, with no action on major bills expected.
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Leadership position differs from committee position.
klondike Monday, September 20th at 7:45PM EDT (link)The AP is reporting:
Murkowski last week resigned her leadership position within the Republican conference. She said she didn’t want her decision to stay in the race to cause dissension within the group. Murkowski maintains her committee positions, including that as the top Republican on the Senate Energy Committee.
GOP rules allow any Republican senator to seek her removal by forcing a secret ballot vote of the 41-member caucus, but that is unlikely to happen before the Nov. 2 general election, according to GOP staffers and other observers. There are only a few weeks left in the legislative session, with no action on major bills expected.
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