Posted by Jeanne Devon on November 14, 2021 · Leave a Comment
Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has declared that she’ll be running for a fourth term. She has alternately been a thorn in the side of Donald Trump, a thorn in the side of Democrats, a thorn in the side of women, and a thorn in the side of almost every stripe of Alaskan there is, at one time or another. Her “concern” about divisive issues has become a running joke. Nobody feels as “troubled” as Lisa Murkowski before she votes the wrong way, and nobody is as proud as Lisa when she makes a “tough vote” that didn’t matter. She…
Read More
Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska politics, Alaska Senate Race, Democrats, Don Young, Donald Trump, Election 2022, Elections, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Headlines, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Dunleavy, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Popcorn time!, Redistricting, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Scott McAdams, US Congress, Voting · Tags Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, rick scott
Posted by Jeanne Devon on August 31, 2018 · 6 Comments
Alaska voters, we need to have a conversation. And I know this may hurt a little. It’s about Bill Walker and Mark Begich, the two “moderates” in the 3-way race for Alaska governor – the first, a former Republican and incumbent, the second, a Democrat and former US Senator. The third player in our little melodrama is Mike Dunleavy, a former Republican right-wing conservative state senator from Wasilla who quit in the middle of his term. In the end, your vote is your choice and yours alone, but I can’t let you step behind the red, white, and blue curtain…
Read More
Category Alaska, Alaska Governors Race, Alaska Politicos, Bang it, Bill Walker, Chuitna Coal, Democrats, Election 2018, Elections, Environment, Headlines, LGBT, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Number crunchery, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Oil & Gas, Pebble Mine, SB21, Scott McAdams, Sean Parnell, Strategery, Supreme Court, Walker-Mallott Unity Ticket, Your Head · Tags Alaska Governors Race, Begich for Governor, Bill Walker, Bill Walker PFD, Bill Walker pro life, Bill Walker vouchers, Bob Shavelson, Chuitna Citizens Coalition, Chuitna coal, Cook Inletkeeper, Hollis French, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Mike Dunleavy, SCOTUS, Walker Chuitna, Walker education, Walker fish first, Walker for Governor, Walker LGBT, Walker oil, Walker Pebble mine, Walker vs. Begich
Posted by Jeanne Devon on August 20, 2014 · 21 Comments
Alaska’s primary election night is over, but the election itself is not quite done. About 14,000 absentee ballots remain to be counted, and the final results will not be known for days. That said, it will be a tough hill to climb for the passage of Ballot Measure 1, which would reinstate the ACES oil tax system put in place by former Governor Sarah Palin and a bipartisan coalition in the Alaska legislature. Sean Parnell, former ConocoPhillips lawyer and lobbyist, and Palin’s former Lt. Governor dismantled ACES with Senate Bill 21 which would give billions from Alaska’s treasury to the…
Read More
Category Alaska, Alaska Governors Race, Alaska House Race, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Bill Wielechowski, Corrupt Bastards Club, Democrats, Don Young, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Mead Treadwell, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Oil & Gas, Oil Tax, Rallies and Events, Republicans, Sarah Palin, SB21, Scott McAdams · Tags Alaska ACES, Alaska oil tax, Alaska primary election 2014, Alaska primary senate, Alaska republican primary, Alaska SB21, Bill Walker governor, Bill Wielechowski, Byron Mallott governor, Dan Sullivan Lt Governor, Dan Sullivan Senate, Don Young congress, Forrest Dunbar, Hollis French, Joe Miller senate, Joe Vogler, Mark Begich Senate, Mark Fish Senate, Mead Treadwell Senate, Sean Parnell, Vic Kohring Senate
Posted by Jeanne Devon on June 10, 2014 · 5 Comments
Anyone in Alaska watching Tuesday’s primary shocker in Virginia unfold couldn’t help but draw comparisons to the Senate race in 2010. That year, Tea Party candidate Joe Miller set the Republican establishment back on its heels with a victory shocker over incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski. Democrats scrambled while institutional Republicans, mouths agape, tried to comprehend what had just happened. On Tuesday in Virginia, Dave Brat, an underfunded Tea Party candidate cleaned the clock of the 7-term Republican incumbent House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by double digits. Brat had been predicted to lose by a wide margin. By many accounts Cantor…
Read More
Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Mead Treadwell, Nation, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Polls, Popcorn time!, Republicans, Scott McAdams, Scratch it, Teabaggery · Tags Cantor Brat, Dan Sullivan Senate, Dave Brat, Eric Cantor, Joe Miller Alaska, Joe Miller senate, Mead Treadwell, Virginia primary
Posted by Jeanne Devon on September 12, 2013 · 18 Comments
Politico just ran an article focusing on the Alaska Senate race, but boy did they get the headline wrong. “Fears?” First of all, when you “fear” something, it means you generally don’t want it to happen. Fearing a GOP civil war in Alaska, for some of us, is like fearing the circus, or fearing Christmas. Oh, no! Jugglers, and cotton candy, and entertaining acrobatics! And who is that scary guy stuffing my stocking with gift cards and chocolate truffles?! Hold me! Second, the use of the future tense seems a bit… late. The GOP Civil War “may” be coming to…
Read More
Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Democrats, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Mead Treadwell, Nation, Popcorn time!, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Scott McAdams, Voting · Tags Alaska Senate Race, Alaska senate race 2010, Alaska senate race 2014, Dan Sullivan for Senate, Joe Miller for senate, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich for Senate, Mead Treadwell for Senate, Politico, Sarah Palin for Senate, Scott McAdams
Posted by Jeanne Devon on August 1, 2013 · 17 Comments
The Republican Party, after crushing defeats in the last two Presidential elections, and seeing newly elected members of Congress display racial intolerance, homophobia, and misogyny the likes of which have not been seen in recent history, has had to really sit down and do some soul searching. To their credit, Republican voters seem to have given some real thought to the condition of the not-so-Grand Old Party, and how it might be changed as they move forward to remain relevant, and serve the will of the majority in an evolving America. src=”http://ap.lijit.com///www/delivery/fpi.js#?z=186829&u=themudflats&width=300&height=250″> In that spirit, they’ve decided that Republicans simply…
Read More
Category Alaska Governors Race, Alaska House Race, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Barack Obama, Democrats, Don Young, Election 2013, Elections, Headlines, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Mead Treadwell, Nation, Polls, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Scott McAdams, Sean Parnell, US Congress · Tags Alaska Tea Party, Begich for Senate, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Miller for Senate, Palin for Senate, Republican party, Republican Party of Alaska, Sarah Palin, Scott McAdams, Tea Party
Posted by Jeanne Devon on July 30, 2013 · 63 Comments
Stay calm. Just sit for a minute. If you’re an Alaskan, do not start loading up the motorhome for your political asylum road trip to Canada. If you are from the Lower 48, do not stop reading here and put a big red Sharpied ‘X’ over Alaska on your desktop globe. Let me explain. A few weeks ago, the ex-half-governor unhinged her maw, and some words fell out. Seemingly, she is considering a run for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Mark Begich. Pollsters tilted their heads to the side like a dog who hears a whistle. Then they got…
Read More
Category Alaska, Alaska Governors Race, Alaska House Race, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Barack Obama, Don Young, Election 2014, Elections, Ethan Berkowitz, Headlines, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Mead Treadwell, Nation, Number crunchery, Sarah Palin, SB21, Scott McAdams, Sean Parnell, US Congress · Tags Alaska politics, Alaska Senate Race, Begich for Senate, Bill Wielechowski, Daniel Sullivan DNR, Don Young congress, Hollis French, Joe Miller Alaska, Mark Begich, Matt Moore, Mead Treadwell, Miller for Senate, Palin Begich, Palin for Senate, Palin Joe Miller, Palin Poll Numbers, Palin Treadwell, Parnell for Governor, Public Policy polling, Republican Party of Alaska, Sarah Palin, Scott McAdams, Sean Parnell, Treadwell for Senate
Posted by Jeanne Devon on April 18, 2013 · 13 Comments
The legislative session in Juneau has ended, and our elected officials have flown away from the carnage they either created, or endured. The stalwart among us, the political junkies who don’t need to take time off to lick wounds, yell at clouds, or throw chairs, will begin to think of… 2014. The courts have ruled that the redistricted map used for 2012 is not Constitutional. We literally go back to the drawing board to rework legislative boundaries. And the insanity will begin all over again. But wait, that’s not all! U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We’ve also got our one…
Read More
Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Barack Obama, Democrats, Don Young, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Joe Miller, Labor, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Nation, Number crunchery, Pebble Mine, Polls, Popcorn time!, Progressive Voices, Redistricting, Republicans, Resource Development, Scott McAdams, Second Amendment, Strategery, US Congress, Veterans, Vitamin Democracy · Tags Alaska senate race 2014, Joe Miller, Joe Miller for senate, Mark Begich, Mark Begich for Senate
Posted by Jeanne Devon on November 20, 2012 · 8 Comments
More absentee ballots were counted in the Alaska House District 34 race on Monday. When the day began, the race was a tie. At the end of the day, the 24-year old newcomer, Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, led the entrenched Republican incumbent Bill Thomas by 28 votes. Absentee ballots will be counted until Wednesday, the final day they will be accepted. Insiders say that there are only 26 possible ballots to come in. So, even if they all go to Thomas, Tomkins will retail a 2 vote lead. The number of votes separating the two will determine whether Thomas will be…
Read More
Posted by The Mudflats on October 19, 2012 · 8 Comments
By Scott McAdams Politics have always been important to Alaskans. Unlike much of the world, we often know our leaders personally, expect our ideas to be considered in the policy making process, and understand that our future requires our voice. As many of us evaluate candidates this election season, most of us in this small community called Alaska do so based on the personal relationships and past experiences we’ve had with those who place their names on the ballot. In my community, there is a race for State House between two men I have come to know over the past…
Read More
Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Democrats, Election 2012, Elections, Headlines, Hooray!, Rural Issues, Scott McAdams · Tags Alaska District 34, Alaska Legislature, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, Rep. Bill Thomas, Scott McAdams