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Subscribe to RSSIncumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski is set to air a television ad this week featuring a video endorsement by the late Sen. Ted Stevens, who filmed the clip shortly before his death in a plane crash earlier this year.
Murkowski, who launched a write-in campaign after losing the Aug. 24 primary to Tea Party-supported attorney Joe Miller, was originally slated to air the footage this summer but pulled the ads after the legendary 40-year Senate veteran's death.
Sue Covich, Stevens's daughter, opens the minute-long ad, speaking directly to the camera. "My dad and Lisa made a great team for Alaska and were always loyal to each other and to the state they loved," Covich says, outlining Murkowski's decision not to air the footage until now. "Now, my family and I want you to hear for yourself how strongly he felt about the need to re-elect Lisa."
In the endorsement, dated July 30, Stevens also addresses the camera directly to praise Murkowski's "commitment to keep fighting for us."
In a nod to Murkowski's high-ranking position on the Senate's energy panel and her ability to win funding for projects in the state -- as he notably did during his tenure in Washington -- he adds, "We need Lisa and the seniority she's earned, now more than ever."
POLITICO first reported the ad. Watch below:
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Well if the dead can vote in Chicago, why can't a dead guy endorse in Alaska?...:)
I feel like I should be cracking jokes about necromancy and an impending zombie apocalypse.
Wouldn't be any more off-topic than the other posts...
Go for it!
I think comments about drooling zombies headed for the polls would be a nice break from an endless stream of posts about moments in baseball history, tbh.
Okay, I'll stop. I think of baseball as a nation wide sport, with great memories for all of us, regardless of party or where we live. It's part of who we are. Something we can ALL relate to.
But I'll stop. Sorry to have bored you.
Don't take it to heart Pat, your baseball posts are often a nice diversion. There's more than enough room for America's pass-time and zombies here...
dangerfield
Well if the dead can vote in Chicago, why can't a dead guy endorse in Alaska?...:)
Similarly, if foreign contributions can fund attack ads against Demoractics to get jobs shipped across the sea. Or airhead Cristine O'Donell can say what she said--"I've got Sean Hannity in my back pocket, and I can go on his show and raise money by attacking you guys--then, I would say it's okay.
You need to know I'm only exposing your twisted logic. It's not o-kay
It might interest you to know Scott McAdams the Democrat has steadily decreased the gap. Now Scott McAdams has given progressives momentum. A few weeks ago, he had 19-20 percent of vote. Mc Adams is a moderate and a outstanding alternative. He can win, and if he does, it will be a major upset.. Miller refuses to discuss his personal issues, like finances, Murkowski has write in issues and is no friend of the environment.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x477497
dangerfield, that's okay. I'm noticing repeats from last year and we're soon coming up to Buckner and other bad memories. Like A TON of NYY championships. lol
Octobers can be like that. But I don't feel bad. Like you said, they were simply meant as a diversion so we could all, as sports fans, enjoy these memories, even for just a brief a moment a day.
But thanks for the comment.
Yeah, didn't mean for you to take it personal, Pat. I work with what I have on hand at any given moment. Why can't we have zombie baseball? I'd love to see Stevens pitch after so long an internment in the "dug-out."
...too soon? <_<
Bev,
lighten up..:)
Maybe he can get zombie Hubert Humphrey to endorse him...more endorsements from the grave!
Zombie politics!
Bev in $hitcago, do you think we're so naive as to believe no foreign money finds its way into campaigns for democrats?
Well, tis the season, I guess.
I think she should have waited a couple weeks to run it. The last Sunday in October would have been the appropriate day.
Ghoulish.
Relax, Pat...
I'm a conservative AND an NFL fan.
Your baseball posts represent your best work.
"Relax, Pat..."
Lol. I'm known as "the quiet/relaxed one" by just about everybody everywhere. Especially during times of great stress, whether it be work or family/friends drama. If there is anyone out there more "relaxed" than me, I'd like to meet him/her. With one exception - Baseball + October. Can't beat it. The ups and downs are unbearable for most of us.
Glad you liked the MLB posts.
btw, now that I think of it - did you all see the video last night on Countdown of the little boy when his team lost the football game? "I hate the Raiders!" The little boy was screaming crying. What was he - like 4 years old? ILMAO
As Mike Barnicle said during 10th Inning as he saw his son with tears streaming down after the Yankees beat the Sox in the playoffs - "What have I done?" lol
Murkowski is a perfect example of what's wrong in washington and now she's going to prove it by showing how she was endorsed by another insider that catered to special interest lobbys?
I hope no one in alaska falls for this crap
Murkowski turning Democrat ? maybe she wins if they only count the votes frrom dead people and make believe characters...has Acorn went up there to help bus in voters?
Zombie politics ?? I have images of zombies staggering down the street moaning "brains, brains, brains". The stumble upon Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnel and just push them aside and continue down the street. They are looking for brains after all.
no joe, I believe someone is attempting to reach out to you to answer your statement about there being no jobs. Pal.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/15/907093/-Follow-the-Money-Follow-the-Vote
Thanks, Pat. Not being a regular reader of the kos, I never would have seen it.
Actually, that raises a question for me...why respond on a board I do not frequent?
Makes no sense.
Why respond?
On DailyKos, your views are (astonishingly)...heresy.
As always, no joe...
Your enemies help to define who you are.
Were I you...I would celebrate this development.
Lol...!
no joe, I would imagine it was because of the length and no other reason. The voting record of the "R's" should be seen by all, and not brushed under the rug as some would like.
And btw, you're not "my enemy". We share different political viewpoints, but don't ever think I consider you "my enemy". We're both Americans.
A real "Kumbaya" moment...
What's next...?
"Teabagger" disappears from Pat's vocabulary?
I wouldn't bet on it.
Pat, I've never considered you my enemy, either. I save that appellation for those who try to kill me. So far no one here has.
By the way, did you ever get a chance to read The Hour Of The Cat?
MB, no, teabagger will never disappear. I can't get the image of them out of my mind with those horrible signs. Sorry.
We're better than that I would hope. Maybe someday.
"Teabagger", Pat...
Try and get THAT image out of your mind.
Sad.
Mixed Bag, I did not bother to respond, but I did take a look. Briefly.
There is really no point in responding. And, no, I don't think length had a lot to do with the choice of forums-some of the posts on this board rival War and Peace. Or, at least, Gone With the Wind.
In my opinion, he pasted my response to him, then added his response, in a forum I never visit-thus winning the argument with himself.
He should start worrying when he starts losing them. That is a sure sign that all neurons are not firing.
no joe, not yet but I have it - thank you. I'm still reading spy novels (since June). I've become addicted to them I'm ashamed to say. I finally finished a 10 volume series on one character, a spy in London and Berlin during the Cold War (fiction). I finally finished the entire series this past Monday. It was exquisite. You learn a lot from these novels about WWII and the Cold War.
I have so many books to read and the one you recommended is due to be read by the end of this month. I'm hoping to get back to biographies soon. Someone the other day gave me a recommendation - "Destined To Witness" by Hans J. Massaquoi. He was a little African American child in Nazi Germany who was enticed to write his story by Alex Haley, author of Roots.
These books drive me to fight against racism. Their life stories are very very sad and I hope in my lifetime this will all be over and we can all be one, regardless of race, religion, income.
MB, what is sad is those signs I saw. Truly sad.
Pat-
You've only begun to plumb the depths of sadness.
Wait until the morning of November 3rd.
MB: lol.
I'm prepared. Ouch.
Brrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnssssss.....!!!
BRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSS!!!
Stop with all the civility already!...people are going to get mad...:)
You've got them already, E.D.
And you cannot eat mine. Or Mixed Bag's or dangerfield's.
Go after Houston's. He, apparently has no use for his.
With all due respect, dangerfield...
No civil exchange can include the use of the term "teabagger".
Rebut...if you're so inclined.
No joe...
You're the man...!
Of course, you aren't...
Hmmm...
You KNOW what I mean!
Joe: Houston just needs to calm down and stop being so srs bznz u guyz about this forum.
"Pat-
You've only begun to plumb the depths of sadness.
Wait until the morning of November 3rd."
You may well have something there, MB. IF the repubs get in power again, there will be MUCH sadness on the 3rd, as America wakes up to find it has been sold to the highest bidders. And that jobs STILL are not being created- at least, not here.
MB-
Your elephant's memory surely includes my success with that one...:)
I know that, E.D. But if it comes down to mine or his, well, I vote for his.
I'm using mine.
Acknowledged, dangerfield...
Elephants don't miss much.
The weather here is crazy, man. Crazy. I had all but given up on attending President Obama's rally tomorrow afternoon because the forecast was not good for standing in line for a few hours. Windy and rainy. However, if the sun continues to shine, as it is now, I'm there. Wonder if anyone from First Read or MSNBC will be attending. Keith? Rachel? Lawrence? Mark? Domenico? Chuck? Andy? Howard? Eugene? Chris? Jonathan?
Anybody? Perhaps not. lol
Believe in yourself, your neighbors, your work, your ultimate attainment of more complete happiness. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in Autumn.
October 15th - This Date In MLB
1917 - The White Sox win the World Series in six games beating the Giants at the Polo Grounds, 4-2. When the New York infield leaves home plate uncovered in the fourth inning, Eddie Collins scurries home scoring the eventual winning run with Giants' third baseman Heinie Zimmerman chasing him.
1917 - A letter signed by 24 members of the World Series Champion Chicago White Sox and manager Pants Rowland contains complaints concerning not receiving their full winner share after beating New York Giants. The written request, which will be discovered as tattered document more than 40 years later in boxes stored at the Hall of Fame library, may explain the ‘Black Sox’ motivation for fixing the Fall Classic the two years later.
1972 - In his last appearance at a major league ballpark, Jackie Robinson, speaking prior to Game 2 of the World Series nine days before his death, urges baseball to hire a black manager. The first African- American skipper will not be hired until 1975 when the Indians employ Frank Robinson to run the team.
1988 - In his only plate appearance in the Fall Classic, a limping Kirk Gibson, appearing as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning of Game 1, sends two-out, 3-2 back-door slider from the A's relief ace Dennis Eckersley over the right field fence. It's the first time a World Series game is ever decided on a come-from-behind home run in the final inning.
Kudo's to Tennessee - Nashville_fan, this is for your especially. Cheers!
"Now, a new poll conducted by Middle Tennessee State University finds that the majority of Tennesseans reject this far-right, hateful campaign and side with the right of Muslims to build the mosque expansion. Additionally, the poll finds that most Tennesseans thinks Muslims should get all the same rights as any other Americans, and only 14 percent disagree with that notion. The poll also finds that two-thirds of Tennesseans are against racially profiling Muslims."
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/15/most-tennesseans-muslims/#comments
While we're being off topic..This just in; Another blow to Corporate media
G.E. Quarterly Profit Falls 18%
The quarterly report underlines the recent trend at G.E., a conglomerate battered by the financial crisis but steadily on the mend. Since the credit crisis, G.E. has pursued a strategy of paring back its finance business and focusing increasingly on its high-technology industrial equipment including jet engines, power plant turbines and medical-imaging machines. G.E.’s big-ticket industrial products are often the last investments made by corporate customers during uncertain economic times. So the industrial business has not bounced back, despite robust growth in emerging markets like China.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/business/16electric.html?hp
dangerfield
The quarterly report underlines the recent trend at G.E., a conglomerate battered by the financial crisisbut steadily on the mend.
I suppose you don't think the greedy CEOs are the blame?
You certainly do...:)
Bev who are you to call anyone greedy?
Please...
A little forbearance for G.E.-
The former parent company of our hosts here at First Read.
How soon they forget...
I guess they're due for another Obama Stimulus donation!
Having a dead man endorse you is gross!
She lost the primary and there is now doubt Stevens being a party man would have second thoughts about endorsing the loser in the primary!
Grow up Senator!
"Â In a nod to Murkowski's high-ranking position on the Senate's energy panel and her ability to win funding for projects in the state -- as he notably did during his tenure in Washington"
Again, they utter hypocracy never ceases to amaze me! These so called projects amount to nothing but wasteful, pork spending, we simply cannot afford! If the Republicans want to cut spending, start with all the subsidies to Alaska!Â
Tghe Republicans started to cut spending by non voting for her in the primaries in order to get her out. But she is too damn arrogant and stupid to drop out and go find a real job. Perhaps she could be a medium and talk to the dead!
Jerry: Your statement reminds me of someone . . .
So, how long until the comment section on this article explodes? Do I have time to make popcorn? I don't want to miss the fireworks.
He is dead and so are her chances.
An endorsement from someone that Fox cannot interview...How convenient...Mebbe Christine O'Donell can help there...
What if Stevens decided to support the candidate who actually won the primary?
Murkowski is another career lying politician. She lost the primary and cannot stand the thought of losing her position in the Senate as though it is hers and hers alone. She is a prime example of the problem and I hope Alaskans send her and other career scumbag politicians a message in November. She's just plain disgusting.
What makes you think any new people in Congress would be any different?
spread the wealth, allows more people to earn the retirement you get for serving one day in office!
They do not get a retirement for serving one day in office. Do the research before you post:
That copy and paste didn't do very well. Here is the source:
http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid='0E%2C*PLC8%22%40%20%20%0A
The ad needs to start with " Tri, Tri, Tri, Trillerrr" and end with a Vincent Price voice over.
OMG....If Alaskans buy in to this narcissistic woman's crusade, then they are as dumb as they are being portrayed! Please, the woman lost, and now she is "raising the dead" to support her candidacy????? Frankly, I think this woman is sick, sick, sick!!!!
Hi I am Ted Stevens and I would have approved this message if I weren't dead. Since I am dead you'll have to take Murkowskis word that I am/would supporti her from the great beyond.
That's digusting. Notice the ad was placed before the election. Who knows what Senator Stevens would have done in the light of the primary election results that occurred after his death? This woman has no shame.
You can chalk up Murkowski as another sore loser who will join the ranks of Crist and Specter. The polls show Miller with a slight lead. Polls at this time are simply a reflection of whom the voters prefer to have as their senator. But with Miller with the lead, and each holding about a third of the votes, no Republican will chance splitting their votes and hand the Democrat the seat. Alaska is a very red state with Obama losing by 22% in 2008.
If the dead can vote then they can also endorse.
Hey, Lisa is still in the fight. Give her the credit. It's her right to compete against Miller and the Dem. Miller got his nomination by sucking up to the teabaggers. I'd be pissed too, and ready to fight. Go for it, Lisa. You've got nothing to lose. The People of Alaska have not yet spoken, just the teabaggers, and they don't represent squat, except maybe the Koch brothers.
Lisa
your chances are as dead as Stevens. Your the only one to stupid to know. You are a sad, power driven nobody. By the way, most people don't know how to spell your Pollock name so if it is misspelled it does not count. hahahahaha
Hey, if you have an endorsement, use it. The guy would have wanted it that way.
I am waiting for permanent resident visa to go home to native China, seems the state and federal government provoke people to rage, in my opinion.
Per se, I was abducted without trial or witnesses after mock hearing 24*AUG*1983 that Judge Paul K Connolly unaware of facts called my step-family's attorney "unrealistic" with Judge connolly unaware the plot was "abandonment by false legal process claiming 'mental defect' status of minor'." In the end witnesses came forward in USCA 1st Cir.90-1158 per curium 907 F2d 143 "unduly meager evidence (inusfficient trial evidence)" that I was in school testified in one witness testimony and other offense 'no money was actually taken under law,' even the lawyer Fred Connors 'mental defect' tactic unravelled 'Connors recanted MENTAL DEFECT claim' in USCA 1st Cir.88-1920 per curium 873 F2d 143 "no signs of mental illness (Connors 24*AUG*1983 transpcript attached)" as this was approved by US Supreme Court citation 110 S. Ct. 196... then Massachusetts Appeals Court 90p--173 "sane and competent" decree cite 30 Mass. App. Ct. 1102 (1991) referenced in "juvenile trial venue decision" of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court citation 429 Mass. 1014.
So I will not enraged, just waiting for visa for permanent residence in ative after at least 27 years of abuse US government relating to child abduction by false legal process... then as punitive snaction handicap assault kidnap by drugging when the witnesses came forward "in school and no money taken" added by US Supreme Court rulings of my cases "sane, competent, highly intelligent, and no signs of mental illness."
Seems the USA wanted to make an enemy out of me, and institutionalized, I did not revert to violence, I put myself through college with Sears credit (sort of odd: Sears was involved in 1973 no-fault accident that resulted in severe burn injuries actionable under Consumer Product laws) as grateful to Sears (if state penal system had not abused me that Sears paid taxes to support... would never have filed Massachusetts Middlesex County Civil Action 86-6768 that became Massachusetts Appeals Court #92-p-1135 'dismissed for being filed 11/months to late... primarily due to child abduction by the state), as I managed two Associates Degrees from Bunker Hill Community College Class of 2009 General Concentration 3.18/grade point average (3.3/gpa is with honors) and 3.118/gpa Class of 2009 (double major) Psychology Concentration.
Now the state it appears, has homosexuals follow me around, apparently being stalked by people with institutionalized ideations... while the simple fact "44/age virgin never had sex with anyone... hugged by one girl in life Diem trang Truong 12/year companion, one date with classmate Xiao Lin (wish she slapped... had no personality almost sniffled when she didn't like pizza), kissed by three girls in lifetime Donna H (dance partner at club in Boston), Patty O. (kiss on head... while playing with Patty she bounced back on couch and bumped head 'best-buddy kiss and make better... even hugged my best-buddy Patty), and April B (child friend played kissing bandit with... odd she works for Somerville Police now... get it 'kissing bandit' pun ''bandit"), this besides mother. Sterotypical institutional american behaviors... never participated... facsimle to Elizabeth Smart... while abducted walked/ran and did calesthetics to stay physically and mentally alert while the state abudcted me due to mock hearings 24*AUG*1983 without witnesses that came forward on appeal USCA 1st Cir.90-1158 per curium 907 F2f 143 that had perverted follow-up hearing with no reference of witnesses Dave Adams and Gerry Knight in re per curium of USCA 1st Cir.91-1063 cite 953 F2d 633.
I am just waiting to go home to Beijing, does not surprise: people are outraged at the USA... a state and country that abducted me as a minor child and tried to institutionalize me.
I am waiting for permanent resident visa to go home to native China, seems the state and federal government provoke people to rage, in my opinion.
Per se, I was abducted without trial or witnesses after mock hearing 24*AUG*1983 that Judge Paul K Connolly unaware of facts called my step-family's attorney "unrealistic" with Judge connolly unaware the plot was "abandonment by false legal process claiming 'mental defect' status of minor'." In the end witnesses came forward in USCA 1st Cir.90-1158 per curium 907 F2d 143 "unduly meager evidence (inusfficient trial evidence)" that I was in school testified in one witness testimony and other offense 'no money was actually taken under law,' even the lawyer Fred Connors 'mental defect' tactic unravelled 'Connors recanted MENTAL DEFECT claim' in USCA 1st Cir.88-1920 per curium 873 F2d 143 "no signs of mental illness (Connors 24*AUG*1983 transpcript attached)" as this was approved by US Supreme Court citation 110 S. Ct. 196... then Massachusetts Appeals Court 90p--173 "sane and competent" decree cite 30 Mass. App. Ct. 1102 (1991) referenced in "juvenile trial venue decision" of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court citation 429 Mass. 1014.
So I will not enraged, just waiting for visa for permanent residence in ative after at least 27 years of abuse US government relating to child abduction by false legal process... then as punitive snaction handicap assault kidnap by drugging when the witnesses came forward "in school and no money taken" added by US Supreme Court rulings of my cases "sane, competent, highly intelligent, and no signs of mental illness."
Seems the USA wanted to make an enemy out of me, and institutionalized, I did not revert to violence, I put myself through college with Sears credit (sort of odd: Sears was involved in 1973 no-fault accident that resulted in severe burn injuries actionable under Consumer Product laws) as grateful to Sears (if state penal system had not abused me that Sears paid taxes to support... would never have filed Massachusetts Middlesex County Civil Action 86-6768 that became Massachusetts Appeals Court #92-p-1135 'dismissed for being filed 11/months to late... primarily due to child abduction by the state), as I managed two Associates Degrees from Bunker Hill Community College Class of 2009 General Concentration 3.18/grade point average (3.3/gpa is with honors) and 3.118/gpa Class of 2009 (double major) Psychology Concentration.
Now the state it appears, has homosexuals follow me around, apparently being stalked by people with institutionalized ideations... while the simple fact "44/age virgin never had sex with anyone... hugged by one girl in life Diem trang Truong 12/year companion, one date with classmate Xiao Lin (wish she slapped... had no personality almost sniffled when she didn't like pizza), kissed by three girls in lifetime Donna H (dance partner at club in Boston), Patty O. (kiss on head... while playing with Patty she bounced back on couch and bumped head 'best-buddy kiss and make better... even hugged my best-buddy Patty), and April B (child friend played kissing bandit with... odd she works for Somerville Police now... get it 'kissing bandit' pun ''bandit"), this besides mother. Sterotypical institutional american behaviors... never participated... facsimle to Elizabeth Smart... while abducted walked/ran and did calesthetics to stay physically and mentally alert while the state abudcted me due to mock hearings 24*AUG*1983 without witnesses that came forward on appeal USCA 1st Cir.90-1158 per curium 907 F2f 143 that had perverted follow-up hearing with no reference of witnesses Dave Adams and Gerry Knight in re per curium of USCA 1st Cir.91-1063 cite 953 F2d 633.
I am just waiting to go home to Beijing, does not surprise: people are outraged at the USA... a state and country that abducted me as a minor child and tried to institutionalize me.
As native chinese-american, the USA has become an abomination, with noncompliancy with their laws and regulations to inflict oppression or commit mayhem... their court order "violate their own Fifth Amendment Right against self-against self-incrimination as the State of Massachusetts suffolk County Probate and State District Courts with county courts of State of Massachusetts contradicted the US Supreme Court reviewed orders of my cases to inflcit oppression and commit mayhem. HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS or STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM BY THE USA STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS...
You should have stayed in China. That's were the GOP shipped all of the jobs anyway...
The stiff probably did more for Alaska dead than Palin did for it alive.
She should join the other moron in Fla. Both can't take we don't want you anymore. Sore losers.
This country going down the drain due the stupidity of this alaskan loser
and this morons talk about baseball
so now she has to have the dead speak up for her, thats because no one alive will. Give it up.