Palin-Backed Joe Miller Poised to Overthrow Murkowski Dynasty -- What's Going on from an Alaskan....

[steve2470]

Perspective (rest of headline)

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In 2006, a relatively unknown small town mayor in Alaska toppled the incumbent Republican governor in the primary. Garnering more than 50% of the vote in a three-way race, and leaving the incumbent in the dust with 19%, the political career of Sarah Palin was born. The governor that was sent packing was Frank Murkowski. He'd been Alaska's Junior Senator under Ted Stevens for decades, and decided to come home and try his hand at the governorship. It didn't work out very well. His mismanagement, pandering to the oil companies, corrupt administration, and subsequent devastating defeat would have seemed to end the Murkowski reign in Alaska -- except for one little thing. Frank Murkowski had appointed his daughter, former state lawmaker Lisa Murkowski to fill the empty senate seat.

Less corrupt, less conservative, and harder-working than dear ol' dad, Lisa Murkowski appealed to the large chunk of centrist Republicans, centrist Democrats, and Independents which make up the majority of Alaska voters. Her approval ratings soared into the high 70s, and there they stayed. The Murkowski dynasty appeared poised to last another lifetime.

One of the casualties, however, of Lisa's installment to her father's senate seat was Sarah Palin. She'd been interviewed for the job, along with a handful of others, and had ultimately been rejected by Frank Murkowski, in favor of family ties. Palin was not pleased. Alaskans didn't much like the royal appointment either. A ballot measure put to voters and passed into law stripped sitting senators of the ability to make appointments to fill their own seats. It would now be left to a vote of the people via special election. Ironically, that very ballot also contained Lisa Murkowski's first legitimate run for the senate on her own merits. She won.

Fast forward to 2008. After Palin's failed VP run, rumors swirled that Sarah would exact revenge and make a run for Murkowski's senate seat when she came up for re-election in 2010. The Republican Party began to grumble. To ease fears, Sarah made nice and wrote her very first check from SarahPAC to Lisa Murkowski in the amount of $5000. But the uneasy truce was not to last.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Palin is an EXPLOITIVE B.......H .....She is milking the titties of those she sucks into her realm

They will get nothing positive from her...she will poison the National Well with her vemonous crap....

[Radical Activist]

2. Very interesting reading. Thanks.

Murkowski was one of the leading lapdogs of the fossil fuel industry. I'm glad she's gone.