Posted on 10/29/2010 9:00:48 PM PDT by warm n fuzzy
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John Tracy, president of public advertising and public relations firm that makes commercials for the Murkowski campaign, said he called Bookey upset about Fagan’s show early in the day.
Tracy said he first called someone at the Murkowski campaign – he wouldn’t say who – to tell them he was making the complaint. The campaign person didn’t object, he said.
“I told Dennis that I felt a suspension was in order. That I felt that what Dan had done was serious enough," Tracy said.
Tracy is the chief executive for Anchorage-based Bradley Reid. The company is working for Murkowski and -- Tracy assumes -- is an advertiser on Morris Communications stations.
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Fagan said it wasn’t his idea, but that he wishes he’d started encouraging people to register earlier in the week.
“It was one of the most exciting shows I’ve ever done. People really felt like they were making a difference,” Fagan said.
He accused Murkowski of trying to silence one of her chief critics the Friday before the election.
Murkowski spokesman Steve Wackowski said the complaint to the radio did not come from within the campaign or from Murkowski herself.
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Spin it princess LiZa SPIN it!
Kick this trash to the curb people!
That’s John Tracy at http://bradley-reid.com/contact.html.
He’s an ex KTUU lib TOOL that is now shilling for princess LiZa
None of this would be happening had the Ruling Class GOP Senators removed her from her post. It is these RINO’s who MUST be primaried out of office.
Just sent to Drudge!
This was REALLY stupid!
Now, every talk show host in the country will be pushing this!
Yesterday, Lisa Murkowski’s hired guns threatened radio host Dan Fagan, and more importantly, the station that airs Fagan’s show, with legal action for allegedly illegal “electioneering.” The station, unlike Murkowski, who is flush with millions of dollars from vested corporate interests, does not have a budget for a legal defense. So it did what any small market station would do when threatened by Beltway lawyers charging $500 to $1000 an hour – they pulled Dan Fagan off the air.
Does all this sound heavy handed? It is. It is an interference with Dan Fagan’s constitutional right to free speech. It is also a shocking indictment against Lisa Murkowski. How low will she go to hold onto power? First, she gets the Division of Elections to change its write-in process – a process that Judge Pfiffner correctly determined had been in place without change for 50 years. She is accepting financial support from federal contractors, an act that is highly questionable and now pending before the FEC. And today, she played her last card. She made it clear that if you disagree with her and encourage others to exercise their civic rights, she’ll take you off the air.
The concept of “electioneering” involves several issues, but typically refers to campaigning at the polls, which is appropriately banned. Under federal law, it can also mean paying for advertising on broadcast media during a federal election cycle, and it requires disclosures if done by groups and corporations. Fagan used satire to mock Murkowski’s write-in efforts and encouraged Alaskan’s to run as write-in candidates. That is not illegal. That is free speech.
Individuals like Dan Fagan have a fundamental right to speak their minds without threats from the incumbent Senator from Alaska. It is hard to find a constitutional right Americans cherish more than the right to free speech. This was a right Joe Miller, as a decorated combat veteran – a tank commander tested in battle, was willing to die to defend. Dan Fagan has not always agreed with me, but I will gladly defend his right to speak freely on his radio show, which he has often used to criticize me. In fact, Fagan has actually used his radio show to attack and insult me, my husband, my children, and my family in just about every way possible. He was especially insulting to my son, who left for a war zone to defend Fagan’s right to attack our family. But when I was his governor, I never would have dreamed of threatening his right to free speech. I support him in this fight because this D.C. Beltway thuggery, as exemplified by Lisa Murkowski’s latest threat, is ruining our country. The powers that be want ordinary Americans to sit down and shut up and let the ruling class ride us right off the debt cliff we’re heading towards with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid steering the nation’s car. We can’t let them. Now is the time to put aside our past differences and stand up to the establishment powers.
This whole episode confirms again why we need to elect Joe Miller. Lisa, you can sue me if you want (you won’t be the first). But I will not be intimidated from speaking my mind. Your intimidation just empowered us liberty-loving Alaskans. Are you really that out of touch?
- Sarah Palin
You are exactly correct.
ALL RINOS must GO!
Thanks!
I sure hope that he picks this up and puts these cockroaches in the light of TRUTH!
“Now, every talk show host in the country will be pushing this!”
I certainly hope so!
A F ing men.
Sarah Palin has posted about it on her FaceBook page and I pinged you and the Alaska FReepers with my ping to her List.
Oh boy, she’s let Lisa have it!!!
Princess LiZa, the abysmal LYING hag, deserves to be “corrected”.
This John Tracy connection to princess LiZa explains to me why KENI and Rydell and Porcaro are ALL in the bag for princess LiZa.
Tracy is a snake imo.
Birds of a feather and all that I guess.
Wow, Palin knocked this one out of the park. And the county. The state, too, for that matter!
Wonder what our resident PDS brigade (pissant et al, cc’d because I mentioned that freeper) will have to say about this? LOL!
Did you get a tingle down your leg?
People in Alaska should show up outside polling stations on Tuesday with signs that just say “Free Dan Fagan!”
It isn’t electioneering. He’s not running for anything. Everyone will get the point, however.
(Advice not valid where prohibited by law . . )
LOL, pissant, you never fail to deliver on your PDS. Almost too easy, but entertaining anyway. LOL again!
Me entertaining? I thought you sounding like Chris Matthews’ was entertaining. Are you sure that homer didn’t clear the Pacific Ocean too?
I get a tingle or two when I think of Sarah Palin, and I’m not afraid to admit it. . .
It has became clear to me that the State will not comply with the statues in the the counting of ballots in the election.
Specifically
AS 15-25-105 (a)(13)
(a) If a candidate does not appear on the primary election ballot or is not successful in advancing to the general election and wishes to be a candidate in the general election, the candidate may file as a write-in candidate. Votes for a write-in candidate may not be counted unless that candidate has filed a letter of intent with the director stating
(13) that the candidate is not a candidate for any other office to be voted on at the general election and that the candidate is not a candidate for this office under any other nominating petition or declaration of candidacy.
AND
AS 15-25-30(a)(14)
a) A member of a political party who seeks to become a candidate of the party in the primary election shall execute and file a declaration of candidacy. The declaration shall be executed under oath before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments and must state in substance
(14) that the person is not a candidate for any other office to be voted on at the primary or general election and that the person is not a candidate for this office under any other declaration of candidacy or nominating petition;
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