Official Campaign Kickoff Event – Monday, April 21st!

/1 Comment/in , /by

I have an exciting announcement! Our official campaign launch will be Monday, April 21st in Wasilla at Screen Shot 2014-04-11 at 2.14.37 PMthe Wasilla Lake Resort at 6pm, and conservative radio talk show host Lars Larson will be on hand, broadcasting live nationwide! 
 
The Alaska race for the U.S. Senate is heating up, and it is shaping up to be one of the most watched races in the country. In these momentous and challenging times, the need of the hour is for new leadership in Washington committed to restoring the constitutional rule of law and reviving the American spirit.


 
I pledge to you as Alaska’s next United States senator, I won’t back down in the fight to roll back the encroaching socialist state brought about under the Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Mark Begich regime. I will stand with reformers like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and bring your voice and your vote to Washington, DC in the cause of restoring our freedom!

I can’t do this alone. The Karl Rove’s and other Washington elite have set their eyes on the Alaska seat and have pledged millions to defeat reform candidates nationwide. We simply cannot go back to the Big Government, failed policies of the last decade and hope to survive as a nation.
 
My agenda is clear: constrain the federal government to its constitutional limits, balance the budget, revive the American economy, create jobs, defend the right to life, repeal ObamaCare, and secure our borders.  
 
If I truly believed that any of the other candidates who entered the race were willing to exercise the kind of leadership required to get the nation back on track, I would not be running. The cost is too high to me and my family, but I simply cannot stand by while the greatest nation in the history of the world plunges headlong towards ruin.
 
Our campaign is catching fire. We have seen a dramatic rise in the polls head-to-head against Begich putting us within striking distance, and the Republican primary is anyone’s race! 
 
The DC elites know this too, and I expect their full fury to be unleashed in the weeks following our campaign kick-off. I ask you to stand with me and send a powerful message to the Establishment, that We the People are sovereign and the government is our servant.
 
Together we can make a difference and do our part, so the great story and the great experiment that is America can go forward.
 
Thank you for your friendship and support!

5 Democratic Senators Facing Uphill Battles for Reelection

/6 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: Thinkstock

Photo Credit: Thinkstock

With Congressional elections growing closer, some Senators will be facing a more difficult road to reelection than others. Incumbency is often an advantage, but after the year we’ve had, some will be struggling to get the votes they need. Democrats historically have struggled in midterm elections, something President Barack Obama pointed out in early March, reminding Democrats in Congress of how much they have riding on the election. In the Democratic party, there are five that stand out more than the rest as having their work cut out for them. Let’s take a look at the specific political challenges headed for to this group.

1. Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska)

Senator Begich is likely feeling especially blue in his red state this year, with increasing pressure from Republicans hoping to exploit voters’ frustration with President Obama and Congress’ inactivity as a whole. He said, according to The Washington Post, that he doesn’t “care to have [Obama] campaign for” him. As a result, Begich — like many other Democrats — is putting some distance between himself, his party, and the Obama administration. His ad campaigns use rhetoric like “standing up to the Washington Bureaucracy,” and “Begich has fought to cut wasteful spending and government red tape,” revealing the extent to which frustration with Congress is influencing many Democrats’ campaign strategies. His ads also focus on his father, his family history in the state, oil drilling successes, and anti-Koch brother sentiment.

Read more from this story HERE.

EPA Studies and Preordained Conclusions

/1 Comment/in , /by

Photo Credit: American Thinker

Photo Credit: American Thinker

With great fanfare the Environmental Protection Agency announced January that their “assessment” of potential mining impacts on salmon ecosystems of Bristol Bay, Alaska had discovered unacceptable risks to salmon and their habitat (various drainages in the region). The agency stated that they would be proceeding to take action under the Clean Water Act to pre-emptively halt action on the Pebble Mine project before permitting begins on the proposed copper, gold, and molybdenum extraction project. Essentially, they studied three mine scenarios, none of which would be able to be permitted under either the state of federal systems and found them unacceptable. No surprise, that.

The study was greeted with great joy and celebration by the anti-mining groups. It was not so well received by the rest of us here in Alaska, as it marks yet another encroachment of federal oversight into a mining district on state lands that was designated as a mining district decades ago.

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R, AK) and Representative Don Young (R, AK) blasted the assessment and the process. Mark Begich (D, AK) embraced the study, pronounced it sound science, and said he now publicly opposes the mine. Begich is up for reelection in November.

When the EPA announced the assessment process in 2011, they couched it in terms of addressing local concern about the project, which they as the Rightful Stewards of the Environment simply couldn’t ignore. As it turns out, that was all a big lie. The results were pre-ordained and anti-mining groups were working closely with the EPA well before the assessment process was announced.

Now, this is not at all surprising, given the revolving door between members of this regime and environmental groups. What is surprising is that they have gotten sufficiently careless and arrogant that resource development people here in Alaska have copies of some of the relevant e-mails.

Read more from this story HERE.

Alaska to Sue Interior Department for Road to Reach Medical Aid

/1 Comment/in , /by

Photo Credit: Anonymous

Photo Credit: Anonymous

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell announced Monday that the state will sue the Obama administration to allow construction of a 10-mile road to give residents of a remote fishing village access to emergency medical flights at an all-weather airport.

Residents of King Cove, Alaska, were outraged in December when Interior Secretary Sally Jewell nixed a plan for a land swap that would have allowed the building of an unpaved road between the small town and the airport at Cold Bay.

Environmentalists had lobbied the Interior Department to stop the proposal, arguing that a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge could jeopardize the world’s largest known bed of eelgrass, which is used as fodder by migratory birds.

“In just the last several weeks, serious health-related evacuations have shown just how critical a road for medical evacuations is for residents,” the Republican governor said in a statement.

“The State continues to explore all potential avenues to help the people of King Cove. The notice of intent to sue relates to one option the State is evaluating, but the fastest and surest way to provide emergency medical access for King Cove residents is for Secretary Jewell to reconsider her decision placing the possible temporary disturbance of birds above the health and safety of Alaskans.”

Read more from this story HERE.

The Only Candidate Who Can Beat Begich is Miller

/11 Comments/in , /by

The Republican elite are skilled at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Their arrogance in dealing with social conservatives, libertarians and the Tea Party underscores the continued rejection of the “big tent philosophy” they allegedly promote. If you don’t adopt D.C.’s version of big-government conservatism and war-machine foreign policy, you can expect open opposition.

The worst perpetrator of this jihad on unconventional Republicans is Karl Rove (and his minions at the Crossroads committee).

Photo Credit: Wall Street Daily

Photo Credit: Wall Street Daily

And now, Rove and the rest of the D.C. consultants controlling the GOP are going to lose their best chance to win the U.S. Senate majority in a decade. How? Well, it starts with Alaska, where the GOP’s misguided Puritanism has created astounding resentment.

In Alaska, the GOP elite are concerned with two things: helping the companies that they run to get federal contracts and keeping control of a Tammany Hall-type patronage system in state jobs.

On top of that, the consultants in D.C. smack their chops at a race in Alaska because their favorite campaign tactic – saturating the market with TV ads – costs chump change in Alaska compared to many other media markets.

But this thinking has inspired a series of stiff-armed moves that have laid waste to the Alaskan GOP. Six years ago, for example, Mark Begich – a generally unaccomplished unknown – was able to snatch the U.S. Senate seat away from long-term Republican Ted Stevens.

This election cycle, Begich is vulnerable… but the GOP elite would rather play blood sports to stop Tea Party leader Joe Miller than simply beat Begich.

In the end, either Joe Miller will win or Alaska will re-elect Begich.

A Vicious GOP Backstabbing

How can I be so sure?

I’ve watched Alaskan politics closely since I agreed to speak at their Lincoln Day Dinners in Juneau and Fairbanks over a decade ago. And to understand why either Miller or Begich will win, you need to know what happened in 2010, in Miller’s last race, as it left a residual distaste for Republican elite tactics.

You see, Miller is typical of the candidates whom D.C. consultants dislike: He’s too smart, too pro-life, too anti-government and too anti-establishment. He’s also a decorated war veteran and a former Judge who cut his political teeth challenging the Alaskan GOP establishment owned by the Murkowski family. Alaska’s senior Senator, for example, is Lisa Murkowski, whom Miller challenged – and beat – in the 2010 Republican primary.

When Murkowski lost the GOP primary, the D.C. establishment circled the wagons, helping Murkowski run an independent race as a write-in. The Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, didn’t remove her from leadership even when she decided to launch her bid against the legitimate Republican nominee.

Meanwhile, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) manipulated the very grassroots, fresh-faced Miller campaign and used his name to raise money… then subsequently spent the money helping Murkowski win her race.

Time to Widen the Circle

But the plan has backfired this election cycle. Emotions run deep because of the viciousness of the Murkowski campaign against Miller. And this time, he’s the only GOP candidate who can win the general election. Polling shows that if anyone else wins the primary, scores of general election voters (in the double-digit percentages) intend to write in Miller as a protest against the aggressive backstabbing in 2010.

Miller’s opponent in the primary is a Karl Rove favorite, Dan Sullivan… a Bush administration appointee and member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum’s “World Agenda Council.” Sullivan is committed to aggressive War Party policies in Syria and elsewhere. Yet Miller, a veteran tank commander who has seen bloody conflict, is much more wary of American intervention abroad.

Frankly, Miller cares more about America than he does the Republican Party, and many of his supporters are encouraging him to just skip the GOP primary and run an unconventional campaign as an independent. Even if he went this route, it would still be disastrous for the GOP’s hopes of recapturing the U.S. Senate.

With recent polling showing Miller’s candidacy beginning to surge in a matchup against Begich, the GOP’s best hope for picking up the seat is to embrace Miller as the Party nominee. The question is, will the Republican elite do their best to snatch defeat from victory again, or will they lengthen the tent cords enough to stand with a true conservative from Alaska?

Your eyes on the Hill,

Floyd Brown

Floyd Brown boasts a lifetime of political involvement, ranging from political appointee in the Reagan campaigns and consultant to the Bush, Dole and Forbes presidential campaigns – to his current role as the President of the Western Center for Journalism, a nonprofit dedicated to informing and equipping Americans who love freedom.

Missing Alaska Man Found Dead in His Home After a Year

/2 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: Wonderlane

Photo Credit: Wonderlane

An Alaska man missing for more than a year was found dead in his home on Monday, according to Anchorage Police. The home had been occupied by renters for nearly a year, but they apparently had no idea the body was in the home, police said.

Samuel E. McAlpine, 37, was last seen March 17, 2013, when he told his mother he was going on a date.

McAlpine’s sister reported him missing 12 days later, Anchorage Police spokeswoman Dani Myren said.

Family members weren’t initially concerned, because he “frequently disappears for weeks at a time” said an e-mail sent by police in August asking for the public’s help in finding McAlpine.

McAlpine was going through a divorce at the time and had moved out of the home he shared with his now ex-wife, Myren said. “They were unable to sell the home, so she rented it out to tenants.”

Read more from this story HERE.

Russian Billionaire Backing Sullivan and Other GOP Establishment and Democrat Candidates

/4 Comments/in , /by

Daily Caller

Photo by Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

A pro-Putin Russian oligarch, billionaire, and proprietor of Access Industries, has taken a keen interest in the 2014 election cycle, contributing hefty donations to establishment Republicans and Democrats vying for congressional seats in 2014, according to OpenSecrets.org….

[Leonard] Blavatnik has teamed up with Paul Singer, a New York hedge fund billionaire who backs increased immigration and homosexual marriage through his federal fundraising committee, Friends for an American Majority. Blavatnik even reportedly attended a “swanky Colorado retreat” that feted establishment GOP candidates in February, according to The Alaskan Dispatch.

Blavatnik contributed $5,200 (the maximum amount allowed by law) to Daniel S. Sullivan, who’s running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Alaska against Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell and Joe Miller. Singer’s Friends for an American Majority also supports Rep. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Rep. Steve Daines in Montana. Blavatnik donated $5,200 to each of them as well.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker also received a total of $13,000 from Blavantik in 2013 — and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee earned $32,400, while the National Republican Congressional Committee got $4,800.

Blavatnik and his wife have each donated $32,400 to the Democratic Congressional Committee. They also supported Ohio Republican Rep. John Boehner ($5,200), New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen ($2,600), Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins ($2,600), Minnesota Democatic Sen. Al Franken ($5,000) and others.

Read more from this story HERE.

Thousands Sign WhiteHouse.gov Petition for Alaska to Secede — to Russia

/57 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: REUTERS

Photo Credit: REUTERS

By Fox News.

Moscow’s annexation of Crimea was condemned worldwide, but some people in Alaska apparently are yearning for the days when they, too, were part of Mother Russia.

A petition on the White House website created by “S.V.” of Anchorage is calling on Alaskans and others to “vote” for Alaska to secede from the U.S. and become a part of Russia.

In less than a week, the petition, titled “Alaska Back to Russia,” has garnered nearly 30,000 signatures, though it’s unclear where they are from.

“Vote for secession of Alaska from the United States and joining Russia,” the petition says.

The petition, though strangely worded and difficult to understand, describes how Alaska was originally settled and populated by native Russians.

Read more from this story HERE.

______________________________________________________________________________

It’s Not Just Crimea—Some Alaskans Want to Join Russia, Too

By Elizabeth Kulze.

Now that Putin has successfully annexed Crimea, another group of disgruntled Russian descendants is hoping to return to the Kremlin’s dominion. As of Monday morning, a petition entitled “Alaska Back to Russia” has garnered more than 17,000 signatures since it launched Friday.

An unnamed Anchorage resident created the WhiteHouse.gov appeal, citing the state’s historic and ancestral ties to the world’s largest country. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to determine exactly how many of the signatures are authentic—as opposed to being Putin-employed bots or a ploy to exile Sarah Palin—but the surrounding chatter on Twitter confirms that at least some Russian-Americans are dead serious about secession.

BjgG7nlCQAA1pis

Aside from the widely accepted theory that North America was settled 15,000 years ago by Siberians who crossed the Bering Strait to enter present-day Alaska, the territory was under Russian rule for almost two centuries before it became the 49th state…

Read more from this story HERE.

“Cinderella” Equestrian Team with Alaskan Makes its Way to Improbable Victory

/0 Comments/in /by

EquestrianImagine a basketball team advancing to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament by knocking off higher seeds with just six walk-on players who have to pay their own way. While the analogy may not be perfect, that is essentially what the underdog University of Montana Equestrian Team accomplished last weekend by winning their regional championship.

Unlike other schools in their region, the University of Montana Equestrian Team (UMET), which started 14 years ago and is a member team of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA), is not funded by the school, which means the riders have to raise money just to participate in their events. The riders, some of whom had never even been on a horse before joining the squad, have pooled money for gas, raised money to stay in motels, and even had to overcome one of the worst blizzards to hit Missoula in over a decade. The team also only has seven or eight riders, which means they start each event at a disadvantage against schools with three times as many and have no margin for error. The odds are stacked against these lady Grizzlies, but they have kept defying them.

“This year we had several team members who had never been on a horse before, let alone competed in a recognized show,” head coach Katie Lufkin told Breitbart Sports. “We had riders who had only ever been in a western saddle that decided to try English for the first time. These are more reasons why it’s pretty amazing we got the win this year.”

And they will have to defy those odds again just to get an opportunity to be Cinderellas in the next round.

When other teams win regionals, their tickets to the next round — Zones — are punched. But not for Montana’s team, which, like the Jamaican bobsled before the Winter Olympics, is trying to crowdfund (see their page here) their way to Palo Alto to compete in the Zone Championships April 4-6. They need to raise $4,000 to keep their dreams alive. If they can’t raise the money, the clock will strike midnight.

Read more from this story HERE.

WATCH – Miller: Establishment Threatened by True Reform Candidates

/2 Comments/in , /by

World Net Daily

World Net Daily

A reporter recently asked me to talk about the DC Establishment’s war on tea party candidates. I pointed out that the Establishment sees true reform candidates and those reformers already in the Senate and House, like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Louie Gomert, as a threat to their Big Government, crony capitalist agenda. 

The Establishment elite know I am of that reform mold, and that is why groups like Karl Rove’s Crossroads, Lindsey Graham’s Fund for America’s Future PAC and Freedom’s Frontier PAC, which is being run by Lisa Murkowski’s former campaign spokesman, have sided with my opponents. The Washington elite understand both of these candidates know how to play the DC game.

My opponents are also internationalists who have advocated for government action on climate change and surrendering U.S. sovereignty by adopting the U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty (“LOST”).  
 
I will not dance to the internationalists’ tune. I believe the United States should never surrender its sovereignty to an international body in any capacity, especially one with the power to tax and regulate the people of our great land, as provided for in LOST.
 
“We the people” established the Constitution as the document we would live by and the form of government we would live under, rather than the authoritative edicts of some far away governing body. That is the very reason we fought the Revolutionary War in the first place.
 
If you agree that the United States should never surrender its sovereignty and authority granted by the people to the federal government, stand with our campaign.
 
I share the optimism of Thomas Paine’s words often quoted by Ronald Reagan, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” We can make a difference in our day and in such a way that future generations will look back with gratitude at what we did here.