Looking increasingly like the liberal Washington, DC politician critics so often accuse her of being, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski invoked the state’s largest minority group… and dyslexics to cast a number of new challengers for the Alaska Senate seat as insensitive.
Murkowski’s campaign has informed Salon they see the inclusion of any names, other than perhaps her own, on a list of write-in candidates, as “sad.” Having been denied her party’s nomination, Murkowski now seems to think that any Alaska citizen, other than herself, we assume, who may desire to run for the seat as a write-in candidate is somehow being unfair.
Murkowski campaign spokesman Steve Wackowski tells Salon that “Operation Alaska Chaos” could cause problems for people in Alaska — including native Americans — whose first language is not English.
“I think it shows the desperation of Miller’s supporters. Quite frankly, I think it’s pretty sad,” he said. “For someone who is dyslexic or needs assistance, it’s dissappointing … but we’re not shocked. ”
The Murkowski camp is distributing wristbands, cards, and buttons with the candidate’s name to assist write-in voters.
It’s unclear if any of the other write-in candidates have raised significant funds to furnish voters with wrist bands, cards and buttons, as she has done. None of the new write-in candidates appear to have violated Alaska’s election laws in any way.
The overall list of candidates for Alaska’s Senate seat stands at approximately 180 names, though some number of those have been denied, mostly for missing the application deadline. In honor of Big Government Editor Michael Flynn, Big Government has opted to officially endorse Republican Robert A. Flynn as a namesake candidate. While no relation and we know very little about him, his name does appear on the extended list, somewhere.
The effort came about in response to a stay by the Alaska Supreme Court, which has the potential to set aside existing Alaskan election law to allow for a list of write-in candidates to be provided to voters for the first time in Alaska’s 50-year history as a state. A stay by the Alaskan Supreme Court effectively temporarily reversed a previous ruling by Alaska Superior Court Judge Frank Pfiffner, which had the effect of simply enforcing existing Alaskan election law.
Dealing a setback to the write-in Senate campaign of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska superior-court judge ruled today that election workers can’t provide lists of write-in candidates to voters on Election Day, calling it a “clear violation” of Alaska regulations.
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