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Title: Joe Miller: The Candidate Who Won't Go Away
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Seattle Post
URL Source: http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/231665.asp
Published: Dec 14, 2010
Author: Seattle Post
Post Date: 2010-12-14 00:36:59 by Brian S
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Views: 11237
Comments: 16
Joe Miller in Alaska is the U.S. Senate candidate who won't go away. Miller announced Monday he is going back to court.
Miller said he will appeal last Friday's ruling by Superior Court Judge William Carey, who threw out Miller's challenge to the apparent re-election - by write-in votes - of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
With backing from the Tea Party Express and former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Miller upset Murkowski in the Aug. 24th Republican primary, but it has been downhill since for the Fairbanks lawyers.
He ran a gaffe-prone campaign, with Miller security guards at one point detaining and handcuffing a journalist.
The Tea Party-backed nominee voiced unusual views, wanting to repeal the 17th Amendment - direct election of U.S. Senators - and said neither unemployment compensation nor Social Security were part of the U.S. Constitution.
Normally Democratic native groups and labor unions helped Murkowski mount the first successful U.S. Senate write in candidacy in 56 years. Unofficial returns show Murkowski winning by a 10,328-vote margin, and ahead by 2,169 votes even if all ballots challenged by Miller are excluded.
But Miller soldiers on in the courts. The Alaska Republican Party has called on him to concede. So has the Anchorage Daily News. Democratic Sen. Mark Begich has warned that a continued challenge could leave Alaska with just one Senator.
In his ruling Friday, Carey repeatedly cited Alaska Supreme Court precedents on voter intent.
But Miller wants a rigid standard applied: Write-in ballots must have the ballot oval completely filled in, and Murkowski's name must be written exactly at it appeared on her declaration of candidacy.
The Miller challenge has been fueled by fundraising from South Carolina's ultraconservative GOP Sen. Jim DeMint. Subscribe to *Tea Party On Parade*
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Joe Miller: The Candidate Who Won't Go Away
Good for him! It's about time.
#2. To: Brian S (#0) (Edited)
But Miller wants a rigid standard applied: Write-in ballots must have the ballot oval completely filled in, and Murkowski's name must be written exactly at it appeared on her declaration of candidacy.The Miller challenge has been fueled by fundraising from South Carolina's ultraconservative GOP Sen. Jim DeMint.
From Miller and DeMint to the people of Alaska
WHO CARES WHAT YOU WANT!
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
Gee, he won't go away, kinda like Algore for 36 days in 2000?
(laughing)
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#4. To: lucysmom (#2)
WHO CARES WHAT YOU WANT!
I hope this drags on through the summer. This is what Palin Power looks like.
"I've really enjoyed meeting this community. They are so full of joy," - Sarah Palin to the thousands of cholera victims in Haiti
#5. To: Badeye (#3)
Gee, he won't go away, kinda like Algore for 36 days in 2000?
Except that Gore actually won the popular vote.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
#6. To: Brian S (#0)
Kinda like the Clintons, Al Whore, Al Franken and a host of others, huh? Is that what Miller reminds you of?
Well, [war's] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
#7. To: lucysmom (#5)
Except that Gore actually won the popular vote.
ouch.
On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#8. To: lucysmom (#2) (Edited)
WHO CARES WHAT YOU WANT!
Exactly. What the people want is of no interest to anyone but women and fags.
Long live the Taliban Freedom Fighters!
#9. To: lucysmom (#5)
Gee, he won't go away, kinda like Algore for 36 days in 2000? Except that Gore actually won the popular vote.
Not in Florida....(laughing)
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#10. To: continental op (#8)
What the people want is of no interest to anyone but women and fags.
Long live women and fags!
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
#11. To: lucysmom (#10)
Sorry, the rest of humanity is getting tired of a world run by women and fags.
Long live the Taliban Freedom Fighters!
#12. To: continental op (#11)
Sorry, the rest of humanity is getting tired of a world run by women and fags.
Spoken like a man with mommy and sexual identification issues.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
#13. To: lucysmom (#12)
most amusing, hear, that one from hags all the time.
It will be amusing to take away your voting card and put you in a burka.
Long live the Taliban Freedom Fighters!
#14. To: continental op (#13)
most amusing, hear, that one from hags all the time.It will be amusing to take away your voting card and put you in a burka.
Other places in California may have voting cards, but not where I live (Silicon Valley).
Imagine what an advantage a burka is for an old hag!
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
#15. To: continental op (#13)
"It will be amusing to take away your voting card and put you in a burka".
Interesting! I'd say you mouthed off to the wrong woman in your past, and got the damn dog-shit stomped outta you. I'll bet you keep a zip-lock on your mouth when away from your keyboard cupcake! lmbo....
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Jo Dee Messina
#16. To: Murron (#15)
have you no other boards to infest with your nonsense, hag?
Long live the Taliban Freedom Fighters!
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