Tag Archives: Alaska

GOP sources report that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will announce today that she will not seek re-election in 2010, setting the stage for an expected 2012 presidential bid. Tina Fey is going to have lots of work. UPDATE: The news is much bigger: Palin is resigning. Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be sworn in at the end of July. …

As a noisy anti-gay crowd outside waved signs saying “Truth is not hate!,” the Anchorage, Alaska city Assembly heard public arguments on their proposed bill to outlaw discrimination against gays for housing, employment, and finance. Opponents were dressed in red, which has become the signature color for anti-gay hate. Allison Mendel, an attorney, told the Assembly, “I want to be …

Pastor Ron Hamman writes in the Wasilla Frontiersman: Sodomy is the only sin for which God came down from heaven to destroy. Though God dealt with many other sins in various ways, there is no other for which he came down from heaven to verify and destroy. In the New Testament, sodomy is declared to be “against nature.” And of …

Alaska’s largest city is considering a gay rights bill prohibiting housing and employment discrimination, but as usual, a wingnut group with “family” in their name is fighting for the right to be bigots. The ordinance would also prohibit discrimination against military veterans, but opponents claim the measure tacked on vets to make it appeal to more people. “There isn’t really …

Oh, Alaska. If only this were an April Fool’s joke. The Justice Department plans to drop all charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens, the 85-year old Alaska Republican convicted last year of lying on Senate financial disclosure forms to conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and home renovations from a businessman, according to a news report this morning. …

The nation’s favorite hillbilly broke his silence today in an interview with Good Morning America where he said, “Oh, I still plan on marrying Bris- hey, is that a titty bar? Bitchin! Laters dude.”

Gov. Palin is only going to use her shotgun to shoot animals from helicopters. Cuz not only is the wedding off, Bristol and Levi are broken up. In a new interview with Star Magazine, Levi’s sister Mercede Johnston says Bristol actually broke up with Levi more than a month ago, is not attending school and rarely lets her baby daddy …

Geez, this is a shocker. The Alaska State Troopers’ union says that “political meddling” delayed their arrest warrant against Sarah Palin’s co-grandma, Sherry Oxycontin Johnston, until after the November election. Palin’s office denies it all, of course.

Yesterday the Wasilla, Alaska fire department determined that an accelerant was poured around the entrance of Sarah Palin’s church, confirming the fire as arson. As expected, accusations against gays/liberals/marriage equality supporters are lighting up the right-wing blogosphere. From the Men For Palin blog: The fact that this hate crime was committed against a church attended by a prominent politician points …

Sarah Palin’s church in Wasilla, Alaska suffered an estimated $1M in damage from an arson-related fire yesterday. In the Associated Press’ account of the incident, their reporter connected the fire to outrage about the church’s hosting of an “ex-gay” conference after Palin told the press that she was sorry if the crime was related to “undeserved negative attention” the church …

Seven-time felon Sen. Ted Stevens was officially declared the loser in his reelection bid yesterday. This brings the Democratic count in the Senate to 58 seats, with Al Franken’s contest still to be called. And it also means that Caribou Barbie is staying in Juneau.

Is this election STILL going on? Sen. Ted Stevens’ hold on the U.S. Senate seat he’s held for 40 years is looking increasingly shaky in the face of more votes for Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich. Begich now holds an 814-vote lead he took after nearly 60,000 votes were counted Wednesday. Thursday, the Elections Division provided additional detail on where the …

The people of Alaska must have been smoking something. Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was leading challenger Mark Begich with most of the election returns in hand Tuesday night, despite being found guilty of seven felonies and polls showing him in deep trouble. With more than 80 percent of the precincts reporting, Stevens held a 2-percentage point advantage over Democrat Begich. …

Completely coincidental that this report was issued late yesterday, yes? A report released on Monday by a state board found that Gov. Sarah Palin did not apply improper pressure to try to dismiss a state trooper who was her former brother-in-law and did not violate state ethics laws in the firing of her public safety commissioner. The report by the …

Today John McCain and Sarah Palin issued separate calls for convicted Alaska Senator Ted Stevens to resign. Sarah Palin has told CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo that she believes Stevens “needs to step aside and allow our state to elect someone who will be supportive of those ideals of America.” On Tuesday morning, John McCain called for Sen. Ted Stevens to step …

Via Politico: Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was convicted today on seven counts of failing to report more than $250,000 in improper gifts he received from 1999 to 2006, a stunning blow to a political career that has lasted more than 40 years and marked Alaska’s entire history as a part of the United States. Stevens, 84, now faces a question …

BAM! Rachel Maddow calls Sarah Palin a liar from an alternate universe. Maddow freekin’ ROOOLZ!

Great stuff and the perfect foil to the Bill Ayers nonsense. And I lovelovelove that they used the creepy music from 28 Days Later. (Via – Dan Savage)