Posted on 04/06/2009 1:03:15 PM PDT by steptoe
POLL: Should U.S. Sen. Mark Begich resign his seat so a special election can be held?
scroll down to the bottom of the page and vote yes.
http://www.juneauempire.com/
As I understand it, the citizens of Alaska will have the chance to vote Begich out of office in November of 2014.
Content to wait are ye?
You have a better chance of Kim Jong Il stepping down and holding free elections.
Democrats never just surrender power.
No, simply content to abide by the Constitution.
Riiiiiiight. You’d be hard-pressed to find any politician who would do this.
He should resign now. His win was predicated on fraud by the Justice Department. So should Jon Tester in Montana who also won by similar chicanery.
So a special election being held to give the Alaskan people an opportunity to vote on their Senator when the true facts are known rather then under the veil of possibly criminally concocted prosecutions is unconstitutional? Is that what you’re saying?
If there was fraud at the previous Justice Department, the current Justice Department should indict the Associate A’s.G and the previous Attorney General.
begich only one by 3000 votes
No, I am saying the Constitution specifies that a Senator will serve a six year term.
And if the prosecution against Stevens was illegal, then you should advocate that all the Justice officials involved in the prosecution be indicted.
You don’t know much about the Justice department, do you ? Biggest mistake the government ever made was getting rid of patronage and keeping people loyal to a given administration not looking to undermine it. Civil service all but guarantees legions of left-wingers infesting Republican administrations, and they’re up to their eyeballs in every single department. Tester and Begich won by fraud, and they should step aside and have a new election run in each with the FACTS being known that the prior incumbents were not guilty of the trumped-up charges and specifications levelled at them. This is a systematic attempt by the left to run Republicans out of office. All they have to do is pick out a target and set them up. And Conrad Burns and Stevens weren’t the only targets, either.
That seemed to be enough to cause Stevens to concede.
In any case, the GOP does not need Ted Stevens back in the Senate.
we can’t even get a re-vote in Minnesota. Why should there be one in Alaska?
Look, most of us aren’t fans of Stevens. I think he’s an arrogant jerk who overstayed his welcome by a few decades. That doesn’t change the fact that he was deliberately set up.
The Attorney General has oversight of all high profile prosecutions.
Sorry, didn’t realize you were a constitutional expert.
I’m missing the part in the Constitution where it says Republicans set up by left-wing civil service employees and run from office on the myth of corruption should sit back and take it. Maybe he can point that out to us ?
That’s too long. Let’s give him the boot now.
Did Mukasey prosecute it personally ?
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