Open Thread – Rachel Maddow Pics
Some shots from the live taping of the Rachel Maddow Show from the Taproot Cafe in Anchorage, Alaska!
Rachel Maddow Talks to Vic Fischer & Shannyn Moore
Well, it was a pretty exciting night in Anchorage! Rachel Maddow came and filmed her Tuesday night show right here in our humble city. Before I go pour myself into bed, I thought I’d put up one of my favorite segments of the show. This is Rachel interviewing Vic Fischer, one of the original delegates to Alaska’s constitutional convention. Yes, he’s one of our founding fathers so when certain candidates go throwing around comments about constitutions, he’s the guy to set them straight. And of course, Shannyn Moore livened up the discussion with her take on the election. It was…
Making History: Murkowski Candidacy Unites the AK Democratic Party & the GOP
Monday morning, I received an email press release that the Alaska Democratic Party was announcing that they would be joining the AK GOP in a lawsuit against the State of Alaska Division of Elections. The suit alleges that the Division of Elections is violating its own regulations (specifically 6 AAC 25.070(b)) by allowing voters to look at a list of write-in candidates with their names and political party affiliations: The DOE’s unprecedented listing and posting of Murkowski’s name violates Alaska law. The ADP filed the lawsuit seeking to prevent the State from illegally providing information about write-in candidates, to ensure that…
Rachel Maddow Comes to Alaska!
Yes, it’s true Mudpups! Rachel Maddow will be coming to Alaska. Shannyn Moore just made the announcement on The Shannyn Moore Show. Rachel will be taping her show tomorrow at The Taproot Cafe on Spenard Road in Anchorage! There are only 200 tickets to the event. If you want yours, you’ll need to request them at: moore4maddow@gmail.com First come, first served, only two tickets per request. You will be notified by email by midnight tonight if you are one of the lucky ones! Thanks to all Mudflats readers who joined Linda Kellen Biegel in encouraging Rachel to come to…
More Early Voting Hanky-Panky. Poll Observers needed! (UPDATED w/ link)
You may remember this story from AKM on Tuesday: In Homer, apparently, reports were received that each booth had a written list of the write-in candidates posted. This is electioneering, and absolutely illegal. If you see anything irregular when you are early voting, please take a picture of it. The above picture is courtesy of KTVA’s Matt Felling from a message he put out on Twitter. The Alaska Democratic Party was sent this picture by an early voter in Homer who saw the list when he walked into the booth. Sure enough, the list was in all of the booths. …
Election 2010: There’s Only One Road to Transparency in Alaska…
In June of 2009 I embarked on an idealistic journey. Thanks to many Alaskans and folks across the country, I was able to raise enough money so that the State of Alaska would release the Records Request they had been sitting on for months. When the emails arrived and the only “good stuff” was redacted or witheld due to bogus-sounding claims of “privilege,” I was not worried. I was sure that as soon as the email lawsuits brought by Andree McLeod and Don Mitchell against Palin were resolved (in McLeod/Mitchell’s favor…no one thought otherwise), I would then be able…
Help us, Rachel-Wan-Maddow, Scott McAdams Is Our Only Hope!
This election cycle, Alaskans have found it particularly difficult to breathe due to the lack of available air. The reason: it’s being sucked directly out of the atmosphere by the family feud between want-to-be-Senator-again Lisa Murkowski and professional grifter/East German Cold War admirer, Joe Miller. Of course, the person having the most difficult time finding air is Democratic Primary winner, Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams. It’s not for lack of good campaigning…he’s doing everything right. I even attended one of the Townhall Meetings he scheduled and was blown out of the water by his responses to every question asked of him….
Alaska Dispatch Senatorial Debate (Live Stream & Blog)
McAdams and Murkowski are on stage. There’s a giant beardless empty chair right in the middle. Can’t imagine why… But they saved a chair… how sweet.
Rally in Columbus, Ohio! Live Streaming @4pm Alaska Time
The President and First Lady are at a rally this evening in Columbus, Ohio, and will take the stage at about 8pm Eastern time, 5pm Pacific and 4pm Alaska time. The Mudflats will be live streaming the event below. Enjoy!