Posted on 09/06/2024 1:21:48 PM PDT by House Atreides
Alaska Democrats have mounted a lawsuit against one of their colleagues as they fight to take an imprisoned congressional candidate off the state’s election ballot.
The Alaska Democratic Party sued the Alaska Division of Elections on Wednesday to keep Eric Hafner off the November ballot, according to the Alaska Beacon.
Although Hafner is running for Alaska’s sole House seat as a member of their party, top Democratic leaders in the state are furious at Hafner, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in New York.
“This is about someone who is incarcerated, an unqualified candidate that shouldn’t have been moved onto the ballot,” said Lindsay Kavanaugh, executive director of the Alaska Democratic Party. Hafner is formerly a New Jersey resident who was arrested after threatening officials in the state.
Hafner came in sixth place during the August primary election but qualified to appear on the November ballot for the state’s “final four” general election after two GOP candidates withdrew from the race.
Nick Begich came in second during the at-large primary last month, emerging as the top GOP challenger to the winner, Peltola. Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom and Matt Salisbury dropped out following the primary to unite behind Begich’s bid to flip the Alaska House seat red. Third-party candidate John Wayne Howe is also on the ballot this fall.
As Peltola faces a tight race to defeat Begich, her allies are frustrated that she’s fending off another challenge from an incarcerated Democrat who has never lived in Alaska and isn’t set to be released from federal prison in New York until 2036.
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Also on the November Alaska ballot is a vote to repeal ranked choice voting.
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Hilarious! I am glad to see Republicans getting the hints and dropping out to support Begich.
This ranked BS has done nothing to change things. Big parties are still going to get their big names out there.
I spend a lot of time in Alaska and love Alaska and don’t wish the people of Alaska any ill will but their politics suck BIGLY.
There’s Murkowski, Ted Stevens and now Hafner. As far as I’m concerned they should let Eric Hafner out and give Murkowski his cell.
Probably the same lawyers that sue to keep RFK jr on ballots.
What happened to diversity, equity and inclusion? Why are incarcerated candidates being discriminated against by the Dhimmicrats?
Um, why r u lumping in Ted Stevens with MurCOWski? He was screwed over by law fair and his case was overturned on appeal.. of course AFTER he lost his election.
-PJ
Something tells me that this group WILL get standing to sue.
-PJ
I will partially agree with you and state that Stevens didn’t do anything that dozens of other Senators have done. I think that is indisputable.
But, he personified what most of us, probably including you, don’t like about Washington. Namely, he went there and became a multi millionaire. Here’s just a snippet from his WIKI page that spells it out about as good as it can be.
Controversies
In December 2003, the Los Angeles Times reported that Stevens had taken advantage of lax Senate rules to use his political influence to obtain a large amount of his personal wealth.[123] According to the article, while Stevens was already a millionaire “thanks to investments with businessmen who received government contracts or other benefits with his help,” the lawmaker who was in charge of $800 billion a year, writes “preferences he wrote into law,” from which he then benefits.[123]
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