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Fishing interests top donors to [Lisa] Murkowski war chest
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ^
| Wednesday, April 23, 2003
| By Associated Press
Posted on 04/23/2003 2:02:45 PM PDT by JohnnyZ
In the first three months of the year, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski raised $155,000 for her bid to win a full term in office, according to a filing released by the Secretary of the Senate this week.
Much of the money came from executives in the Seattle-based commercial fishing industry. Various lobbyists and individuals with Alaska interests also contributed.
About $43,000 came from political action committees in the energy, chemical, transportation, mining, construction and finance industries, according to the filing released Tuesday.
Sen. Ted Stevens' political action committee, the Northern Lights PAC, gave Murkowski's committee $10,000, the maximum allowed by the new federal campaign finance law.
Stevens' personal campaign organization also gave Murkowski's campaign $1,000.
Former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., and Christopher D'Amato each gave Murkowski $2,000 apiece, the maximum contribution per election cycle.
The Murkowski campaign spent about $35,000 over the same time period to cover reception costs and other expenses, leaving about $121,000 at the end of March.
Murkowski will be up for election in 2004 because she was appointed to serve the remainder of her father's term, which would have ended that year had Frank Murkowski not been elected Alaska governor last year.
Stevens, up for re-election in 2008, has been raising a little money but spending a lot more. His personal campaign organization collected $5,100 during the three months but spent $98,000.
The spending went in some large chunks to consultants and campaign managers. For example, deputy campaign treasurer Edie Opinsky of Anchorage received a check for $10,200. Holmes, Weddle and Barcott, the Anchorage law firm where campaign treasurer Tim McKeever works, earned about $16,000. Another $15,000 payment went to C. Landon Parvin, a consultant in Fredericksburg, Va.
The campaign also made a $5,000 donation to the Northern Lights PAC.
Fund-raisers and thank you gifts sapped some of the campaign's money. A reception at The Georgetown Club in Washington cost $10,100 on Feb. 10. The campaign bought about $3,500 worth of gifts from the U.S. Senate Gift Shop.
However, Stevens' campaign paid some much larger bills right before the end of 2002, according to the year-end report filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Those included an $80,000 check to Edmonds Hackney and Associates, the campaign's political consulting firm and advertising producer.
TOPICS: Alaska; Campaign News; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2004; challenge; election; incumbent; jerryhood; lisa; murkowski; primary; sarahpalin; senate
So who's going to challenge Lisa in the primary?
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posted on
04/23/2003 2:02:45 PM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
To: Kuksool; fieldmarshaldj; GraniteStateConservative; Torie; No Dems 2004; William Creel; BillyBoy; ...
Senate ping
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posted on
04/23/2003 2:04:10 PM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(What two adults do in the privacy of their home IS my business. I'm the one holding the camera!)
To: JohnnyZ
It all depends on if Lisa can show herself to be a strong candidate and if the state GOP can talk other potential candidates out. If that doesn't happen, Lisa will get drained by a primary and get kicked around by Tony Knowles. The last thing we need is a Dem senator from Alaska of all places.
To: JohnnyZ
That's saying if she makes it past a strong primary. Either way a primary would be draining.
To: GiveEmDubya
I dunno, I think she WILL have a primary, and unless multiple candidates split the non-Murkowski vote, she will lose that primary.
I can't believe she would go and vote for the Harkin Amendment (supporting Roe v. Wade) and think people would take her claim to be pro-life "seriesly".
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posted on
04/23/2003 2:16:55 PM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(What two adults do in the privacy of their home IS my business. I'm the one holding the camera!)
To: JohnnyZ
Could a candidate like Sarah Palin beat Murkowski in the primary and still have enough wind left in her sails to take down Knowles?
To: GiveEmDubya
I don't see why not. It's a little like the Sam Brownback/ Sheila Frahm thing in Kansas, I think.
If anything whoever took down Murkowski would have momentum. Would Palin have high negatives from a primary campaign? I doubt it. She'd be the underdog, the people's champion.
I admit I'm quite surprised, but there's a LOT of anti-Murkowski sentiment and discontent going on right now. Couple that with Lisa being liberal and a challenge to her should be a MUCH higher priority than the Toomey thing.
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posted on
04/23/2003 2:34:52 PM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(Hold muh gun and watch this!)
To: JohnnyZ
So in other words, if it's a two-way race, Lisa can kiss her seat goodbye. Gotcha. I'm more concerned about the general election though. I don't know about Knowles' record, is he a liberal or not?
To: GiveEmDubya
I dunno, but I'll make something up:
Yes, he's basically liberal. Might be pro-gun. I think he's pro-ANWR. Pro-abortion, etc. Probably doesn't talk about that kind of stuff much. Squeaked by in two elections for governor, once against a poor opponent.
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posted on
04/23/2003 2:57:59 PM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(Hold muh gun and watch this!)
To: GiveEmDubya; JohnnyZ
Would Sarah have the money to ultimately win the seat?
Someone should call her up and ask her about the race. Google rocks:
Todd and Sarah Palin, (907) 373-3113
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posted on
04/23/2003 4:48:27 PM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
To: GiveEmDubya; JohnnyZ
He's VERY liberal, and will move even further left if elected to the Senate. I believe he has to be the luckiest son of a bitch in Alaska politics since statehood. Had a GOP opponent in '94 who was expected to win easily, but took a shot at Knowles that because he had "good hair" meant he was sleeping around, and Knowles pulled out a narrow win. In '98 when he should've easily lost, the GOP shot themselves in the foot when a man named Lindauer bought the nomination and we were forced to disown him and run a write-in candidate (with Lindauer still on the ballot), and Knowles won handily (with a majority of the vote).
I personally cannot believe how politically stupid it was for Frank Murkowski to appoint his kid (regardless if she had won on her own accord to the legislature) to his seat. He could've at least appointed Ted Stevens's boy, Ben, also a state legislator, to avoid the nepotism charge. Sarah Palin was the only logical choice for that seat, and Murkowski's arrogance in not appointing her could end up costing us next year. I still think Frank is going to pull out all the stops to help his daughter hold the seat, but if she faces a seriously contested primary that she ekes a narrow win out of, it's not going to be pretty to watch in the fall, and knowing Knowles's luck, once he's in, we may not be able to get him out until he buys the farm.
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posted on
04/23/2003 8:02:48 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~Remember, it's not sporting to fire at RINO until charging~)
To: fieldmarshaldj
I hear ya. Frank Murkowski appointing his own daughter was a boneheaded mood. I don't care how qualified the woman may or may not be. It reeeeeeks of nepotism.
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posted on
04/23/2003 8:11:13 PM PDT
by
Gunder
To: JohnnyZ
So who's going to challenge Lisa in the primary? I have to say at this moment that no one will take on Lisa Murkowski in the primary. I mean no person of political stature will take her on in a primary. I don't think Republicans in Alaska want to get the Murkowski clan angry.
To: GiveEmDubya
I don't know about Knowles' record, is he a liberal or not? He is known as Tony Clinton. As complete a Liberal as there is.
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posted on
05/02/2003 3:53:57 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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