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Posted on 04/04/2009 5:45:36 AM PDT by SolidWood
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-73
Governor Requests Public Vote on Senate District B
April 3, 2009, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Palin Thursday called for an open vote by the Senate on her appointment of Tim Grussendorf to the Alaska Senate. Concern has been expressed that a vote of the entire chamber on this appointment would be contrary to the practice and desires of political caucuses in the legislature.
“My primary objective is to respectfully request the Senate to take this matter up and vote on it in public session,” Governor Palin said. “The Alaska people and particularly the people of Juneau deserve a public vote on this. While the long-standing opinion of the Department of Law is that confirmation by a minority of the Senate potentially has constitutional problems, I recognize that the caucuses in the legislature prefer not to have a vote by the entire chamber. The Senate can decide for itself who participates in the vote. I am simply requesting that the vote be done in public.”
“The opinions of the Department of Law have been on the books for decades,” Attorney General Wayne Anthony Ross said. “I believe the legislature and the people have a right to know that there are legitimate legal concerns with the manner in which the Senate Democrats acted on the appointment of Mr. Grussendorf.” ###
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The dems brought this on themselves. They gave her only the name of one Palin hater to chose from, she asked for more names, and they said no. I’ve read that there is from fractures developing in the dem party in Alaska over this grandstanding by the dems, so let’s hope she can split them completely.
All congressional (state and fed) should be public unless it has to do with national security. We all have the right to know what is going on in the big houses.
Go Sarah!
Gov. Palin is the best.
From her principled stand with the State legislature
so many times you can see how she would deal the
the U.S. House and Senate.
How nice to have a conservative who knows how to lead.
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