Stacy McCain hears that the executive committee of the Alaska Libertarian Party is meeting in emergency session Sunday to discuss efforts by Murkowski operatives to get the Incumbent Senator on the LP ticket as its candidate for the U.S. Senate in the event she loses the Republican primary to Joe Miller:
The Alaska LP executive committee meeting lasted more than two hours, but the committee members were sworn to secrecy about the result. A press conference is scheduled Monday in Anchorage — I’ll update with details later — and Alaska LP chairman Scott Kohlhaas could be making an appearance on Fox News.Pointing to the recently released PPP Poll, Stacy says longtime Sarah Palin foe Andrew Halcro, who ran as an independent and was defeated by Gov. Palin in the 2006 GOP gubernatorial primary, is behind the talk about Murkowski supposedly running in the general election as the LP candidate. Such talk, says Stacy, is just that:
As for Andrew Halcro’s scheme, remember that the No. 2 official in the Alaska LP said it’s “99% ... no way” that the Libertarians would take Murkowski.The Miller campaign, meanwhile, says someone is calling absentee voters in the 49th state and asking them who they voted for in the primary. Miller's team says they are not the ones making the calls, but one of the voters who was contacted claims that the caller identified himself as being with the NRSC. Both the NRSC and the Murkowski campaign deny making the calls. If it can be proven that the NRSC is making the calls, Dan Riehl says there will be hell to pay.
Miller appeared on CBS News' Face the Nation Sunday morning.
- JP
You know, it used to be if you were a loser you gathered up your marbles and went home. Now, you just change your party affiliation or demand recounts until you get the result you want.
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