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Former Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller returned to Juneau Tuesday, accompanied by some of his current political allies and continuing to challenge the Nov. 2010 election he lost at the polls — and then again in the courts.
But where Miller says he’s really been vindicated is in claims about opponent Lisa Murkowski, who bested him in a history-making write-in campaign.
“It’s been absolutely no surprise, she’s been voting as we portrayed her during the campaign, as a liberal,” he said.
Passing through Juneau during a Tea Party at Sea cruise aboard the Celebrity Millennium, Miller met with local supporters Tuesday evening.
Miller explained his new political action committee, or PAC, and website, RestoringLibertyAlaska.us, which he said which will represent and organize citizens now ignored by the state’s institutions and political parties.
Miller said the PAC would focus on key races in the state, probably only a handful, in primary and general elections, probably for the Legislature and statewide offices and possibly even local races.
Miller said the PAC will raise some money, but will mostly be used to organize committed supporters, which he said is how he won the Republican primary.
“What won that race is the volunteers on the ground,” he said.
Many of those who gathered at the Nugget Mall Tuesday evening had participated in the recount following the Senate race, where Miller supporters challenged as many Murkowski write-in votes as possible, hoping to sway the race to their candidate.
Tuesday, Miller continued to fight the battle he lost in court, where he challenged specific misspelled write-in ballots he said shouldn’t been counted. Tuesday, he said members of Gov. Sean Parnell’s administration, the courts and the state’s power structure worked together to keep him from winning.
He said he proved that during the court case, but was ruled against anyway.
“The allegations that I made were all substantiated,” he said.
Murkowski’s victory was larger than the total of all the votes the Miller campaign challenged, but he said many ballot boxes were not adequately secured and votes may have been changed or otherwise tampered with.
Changes made to state elections law by the Alaska Legislature during the last session leave the state still susceptible to election fraud, he said.
“It just rubber stamped a bad decision by the (state) Supreme Court,” he said.
Other tea party activists accompanied Miller to Nugget Mall from the cruise as they tried to fire up a dozen or so supporters from Juneau.
He said the turnout was pretty good, given that Juneau is “not necessarily a bastion of conservatism.” The comment drew rueful chuckles from the audiences
Jerome Corsi, author of “Obama Nation,” an attack on President Barack Obama, and former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson made even harsher attacks on Obama than did Miller.
Corsi said Obama isn’t qualified to be president because he isn’t a natural-born citizen, despite the president’s public release of a copy of his birth certificate.
“I’m still saying that what we’ve seen is a forgery,” he said.
Corsi challenged Obama’s Christianity, as well as his politics.
“There’s a communist living in the White House,” he said.
Jackson said she only recently got involved in politics and discovered that Obama was a communist. She endorsed Miller’s call for tea party members to get involved in efforts such as serving as local poll workers, which she said now are “mostly old hippies.”
Miller said he hasn’t ruled against running against Sen. Mark Begich, Rep. Don Young, or even Murkowski again in five years.
• Contact reporter Pat Forgey at 523-2250 or at patrick.forgey@juneauempire.com.
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Add commentRubber-Room-Ready
Joe!
You are starting to look a little rubber-room -ready.
Move on! Ooops! Wrong Org.
Pat
-- “Corsi said Obama isn’t
-- “Corsi said Obama isn’t qualified to be president because he isn’t a natural-born citizen…” --
Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, 1961 at the Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya and not in Hawaii as he claims. This may explain why he has only allowed Hawaii to release a highly-questionable, computer-generated, ‘abstract’ of his birth certificate. A high resolution copy of Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate is available for free download at http://www.WasObamaBornInKenya.com
The fascinating story of how Lucas Daniel Smith obtained a certified copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate directly from the birth hospital on February 19, 2009 is included as part of his 'July 4, 2010 Letter to Congress', which is also available for free download at the same website.
The Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth, released May 27, 2011 by Mr. Obama on the official White House website has been judged by many technically-qualified experts to have been computer-assembled in ‘layers’ in a radically manipulative manner and contains many identified anomalies. … The document is certified only to the very low standard of “abstract’ (whatever that encompasses) rather than the far more rigorous standard of ‘copy’ which would be the expected level of quality. … Tim Adams, senior Hawaiian election official during the 2008 presidential campaign, has sworn an affidavit stating that no birth certificate for Obama existed in Hawaii at that time. … Doug Vogt, an expert in document imaging technology, recently filed a 22 page, detailed criminal complaint to the FBI regarding Obama’s fraudulent, Hawaiian long-form Certificate of Live Birth.
These are the people Parnell was pallin' around with
When he went to the cruise ship instead of doing his job.
Joe Miller and Jack Abramoff's corrupt buddies Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist.
Joe, We Hardly Knew Ya with Your New Buddies!
Rummy, Grover, Ralph, Victoria & Joe Miller. What a crew! If Joe had had these "heavyweights" behind his Senate bid, it would have turned out FAR different! He would have lost by another 20%.....Thanks for the comic relief, Joe!
@B.Steadman
I was born in Kenya too. Here's a copy of my birth certificate:
http://tinyurl.com/44r7qwf
Come on, folks. This is a long dead issue, and the 'birth certificate' supplied on the site you linked would be a hell of a lot easier to forge than the one supplied by the White House. Please, just let the issue go quietly into the night and die in a dark alley somewhere.
Miller's delusions
Oh, he lost because Sarah's lapdog, Parnell, worked against him?!?! Not because he ran a horrible campaign, had a reporter "arrested" and because the truth about his employment came out.....yeah, right. And his good buddies are birthers who won't see the truth and a ditz who's a caricature of her SNL days.
Thank goodness for the good spellers in Alaska!!
Crybaby Joe
Joe cannot stop his blaming others, quibbling when he is proven wrong and crying on others...He also has a special knack for his incessant begging for money for personal enrichment.
Joe is the epitomy of a politician that cannot take self responsibility. Joe will go down in history as one of the most unethical politicians of Alaska...right next to Soapy Smith.
Joe, how are those unconstitutional unemployment benefits and farm subsidies working out for ya?
B. Steadman lies
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
It's the Kenya "birth certificate" that is a forgery. Unbelievable....
In other news
The Fairbanks Daily News reported this week that the North Star Borough filed to dismiss the Joe Miller lawsuit against them for releasing his personnel records (by court order) as he approved them as a public figure running for office.
Hypocrite.
"In 1961, birth notices for
"In 1961, birth notices for Barack Obama were published in both the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on August 13 and August 14, 1961,
respectively, listing the home address of Obama's parents as 6085 Kalanianaole Highway in Honolulu. On November 9, 2008, in response to the
persistent rumors, the Advertiser posted on its web site a screenshot of the announcement taken from its microfilmed archives. Such notices were sent to
newspapers routinely by the Hawaii Department of Health.
In an editorial published on July 29, 2009, the Star-Bulletin pointed out that both newspapers' vital-statistics columns are available on microfilm in the
main state library. "Were the state Department of Health and Obama's parents really in cahoots to give false information to the newspapers, perhaps
intending to clear the way for the baby to someday be elected president of the United States?" the newspaper asked."
Cottage industry for wackos
The right wing has one. The left wing has one. It's just entertainment. Heraldo, dancing bears, three legged kids etc..
But what the heck is our governor doing around this jokesterism?
Cubs Win World Series!!!
Joe Miller wins lawsuit -- declared victor in US Senate campaign. Easter Bunny halts distribution of chocolate eggs. Alligators flourish in NYC sewers. Joe Miller gets a real job and stops accepting welfare. Warren Commission cover-up. Nixon = victim. Free beer. Free Love. Free Huey.
As for the birth certificate, please note that the Internet is a medium, not a source.
Jerome Corsi is NOT a real doctor!
Just where on earth did Jerome Corsi get his Ph.D - a diploma mill? This man is a complete phony!
As for Joe Miller, he is an absolute hypocrite - just like Allen 'The Wacky Colonel' West and Michelle 'Today is Elvis' Birthday(?)' Bachmann (to name just a few). They want the government out of our lives, but they LOVE having the government in THEIR lives!
Majorbloodnok.....Try
Majorbloodnok.....Try Harvard. You're welcome.
Corsi is also petty.
Corsi is also petty.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/esquire-sued-by-birthers-_n_887...
Even if we pretend that Obama was born in Kenya, what difference does that make? It violates an incredibly outdated law that was intended to keep the British from regaining control over the newly formed USA. It is irrelevant in modern times. Does spending a month as a baby in a foreign nation make one unfit for presidency? Why?
come on
Get over yourself Joe you've already wrecked any chance at political future
Now you're giving the TEA party bashers more ammo
The world according to Joe
Parnell, state courts, the legislature and state elections employees all conspired to ensure his defeat. Is he delusional, or simply another right wing opportunist?
Joe, good luck scamming Alaskans by soliciting donations to your PAC.
You may want to also consider selling expensive soap with promises of an occasional $100 bill enclosed in the wrappings.
A recent polling show the Tea
A recent polling shows the Tea Party is the least favored group in this country.
A Carnival ship full of Tea Bagging crooks, one can only hope they get lost at sea!
Joe Miller, Sean Parnell you and your friends disgrace our state, please leave.
please?
haily please provide a link (or url) to the poll your referring to.
thank you
Teaparty SUCKS
Islandhopper, here's a link that might shed some light for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/us/politics/05teaparty.html
The tea party is really
"The tea party is really nothing more than the same racist social conservatives who have been seeking dominion over American politics since the Reagan era"...
“Tea Baggers want to free us from the shackles of Government” like Social Security, Medicare, FEMA, and Regulations that work to protect Americans from abusive business practices....
The Tea Party group in Congress is now making all the people/states that need "emergency help" from the devastation caused by the Hurricane Irene on the east coast, go through a budget process for FEMA funds!
The use of FEMA emergency funds should not have to go through process!!
AKcomm
AKcomm interesting NY Times article although nowhere in it (or the sidebar Documents: The Full Results From The New York Times and CBS News Poll) does it say how many were polled, or the political make up those answering (CBS is known for as they stacking the deck). I did note that 20% of respondents held a favorable opinion while 40 held an unfavorable, still 20 % aint all that bad if only 100 people were polled.
Anyway thanks for the link.
haily
haily still waiting for your so called poll link. errr (try this one) the dog ate it
Steady Haily
Of course disbursement of FEMA and other federal funds should go through a process. Accountability is always nice when using public funds, don't you think?
It is an interesting point, if that is what is being argued, that since when did the federal government become the first responder and source of dough for fixing up problems. At the heart of the issue on FEMA funding for some folks is whether or not the federal treasury is somehow on the hook for fixing every home built in a snow-slide area in Juneau, the new homes built just above sea level on many of America's marine coasts, homes swept away in tornadoes all over the middle part of the continentm etc, etc.
Ask yourself whether the situation has been rigged to promote the real estate/construction/insurance industry in America and also whether life might be perfectly fine without a FEMA agency.
@joegeldhof: I can think of
@joegeldhof: I can think of something more important than accountability: people's lives. The Tea Party routinely places ideology over reality, and that is why they are a force for irresponsibility and ignorance and need to STFU and GTFO until they come to their senses and get a GED.
When my house is on fire, the last thing I care about is whether the fire department wastes some of its funding.
Lill-Green Gremlins did it!
They snuck in and stuffed the ballot boxes, rigged the count, threw the supreme court's decision; Why its
SAB-0-TAG-E!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgCyddjG8QI
Do you still want...
Joe,
Do you still want to do away with the Department of Education?
Yep these baggers want to
Yep these baggers want to privatize all public services, including FEMA
And what happens when your home catches on fire and you are behind on your bills?
The privatized Fire department lets it burn down, that’s what happens.
All programs need a review process that is open to a public discussion to stay current with technology etc….
But these clowns want to go in and shut everything down and no discussion.
This is no way to run our country, they have no right!
People have died for these programs, that’s why they were created
Polls from the NY Times and
Polls from the NY Times and CBS that show distain for the Tea Party? Surprise, surprise!!
Those of us that believe in personal responsibility are going to have a real fight on our hands to change the mindset in America. Big Brother government isn't going to be easy to tap down. You leftists have worked yourselves into a tizzy over the thought of something, or anything changing. It's like, 'how will I survive?'
What's Congress talking about - going back to the spending rates of 2007, or sometime close? I don't remember 2007 being so hard and dismal. I think we could all handle it.
Revamping programs for
Revamping programs for efficiency is one thing but cutting off services that tax payers want and pay for is wrong and it is even more wrong that the Tea Party is dragging our country into cutting these programs rather than having allowed the Bush tax cuts to expire. If we had allowed the Bush tax cuts to expire we would not even be having this conversation because we would have the revenue for these programs. The Tea Party is a disgrace to all Americans