The latest from Princess Lisa vs Tony Knowles

Murkowski team denies role in anti-Knowles ad

CURIOUS: A campaign coordinator for senator appears on screen.

By LIZ RUSKIN
Anchorage Daily News
Copyright 2004
(Published: July 8, 2004)

Campaign Coordinator Appears in Ad

Sen. Lisa Murkowski's campaign spokesman, Elliott Bundy, told the Daily News on Tuesday that no one from the Murkowski campaign helped a covertly funded interest group called Americans for Job Security with the ad it is airing in Alaska this week. The ad bashes Democratic challenger Tony Knowles.

It features a man named Paul Axelson of Ketchikan, who has a speaking part and is identified on screen. Isn't Axelson Murkowski's Ketchikan campaign coordinator?

Yes, Bundy acknowledged Wednesday.

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So concerned: Republican Mike Miller, who is trying to establish himself as the truest conservative in the U.S. Senate race, noted that Sen. Murkowski missed a Senate vote Tuesday on one of President Bush's judicial nominees, Leon Holmes, whom the abortion-rights lobby worked to defeat.

"I can only assume she must have been ill or had some other emergency that explains her missing this crucial vote where President Bush needed her support," Miller said in a press release Wednesday.

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Miller noted that the only other two senators to miss the vote were Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and his new running mate, John Edwards.

"We know what Kerry and Edwards were doing. They were too busy campaigning to show up for work," Miller said.  "I trust Lisa has a better excuse."

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This is such good news;  Princess Lisa is on the road to total humiliation in the fall.

Tony is doing better than ever, and has good positives in recent polls.  The above first story concerns an attack ad which I believe tries to say that Tony is not in favor of ANWR drilling.  Sadly, he is, but it is more out of political reality of Alaska politics than a sell out of values.  The Murkowski campaign is also complaining about Knowles' claims on job production in Alaska during his governorship.

The tide is really turning in Alaska.

Mark

•  How stupid are her people?

  Are they just hoping that nobody will care about made these ads? Because it's pretty stupid to LIE about not being connected to ads and then have your campaign manager appear in the ad!

  Do you think this type of foolishness will sour more voters on her?

  by JamesB3 on Thu Jul 08, 2004 at 10:53:17 PM PDT

  •  I do because

    already I have reported that when i was up there in March, her signs already had LISA in big letters, and murkowski in little letters.

    The perception is up there mostly that Princess Lisa didn't really deserve to be the Senator, and wouldn't have been, if daddy hadn't been governor.

    Plus she is under attack from her own party.

    Mark

    by Dems2004 on Thu Jul 08, 2004 at 11:36:51 PM PDT

    •  How many are likely to vote for her solely because

      she's a Republican?

      by JamesB3 on Thu Jul 08, 2004 at 11:40:38 PM PDT

      •  I think she has

        topped out on her base constituency.  (40% +-)

        Mark

        by Dems2004 on Thu Jul 08, 2004 at 11:48:25 PM PDT

•  Ketchikan's bridge

  It features a man named Paul Axelson of Ketchikan, who has a speaking part and is identified on screen. Isn't Axelson Murkowski's Ketchikan campaign coordinator?

  Yes, Bundy acknowledged Wednesday.

  heh. Pretty funny.

  Say, do you know what the position both of these candidates have on Ketchikan's proposed completely federally funded suspension bridge to nowhere? That's the most outrageous piece of non-defense pork I can remember (and that's saying a lot)

  by colleen on Fri Jul 09, 2004 at 07:32:28 AM PDT

•  How is this not a violation of election law?

  and isn't Americans for Job Security the outfit that went after Dean? I thought they were Dems.

  by Bill Rehm on Fri Jul 09, 2004 at 09:23:28 AM PDT