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Arctic Dave

(13,812 posts)
Mon Apr 30, 2012, 02:00 AM Apr 2012

It would appear the repug party in Alaska is eating itself. [View all]

How Sen. Murkowski was booed by Paul supporters at Alaska GOP convention

It was supposed to go smoothly for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Friday night when she took the stage to give a speech and introduce guest speaker U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, at the Alaska Republican Party Convention.

Murkowski has faced some tough crowds in the past, particularly in 2010 when she was running for re-election against Joe Miller in the midst of a tea party uprising. But all of that was supposedly behind her. Her win in an historic write-in campaign against Miller seemed to take the wind out of the tea party movement in Alaska. For various reasons, like Alaska’s weird economy and geography, the tea party wasn’t gaining as much ground as in other states.

That all seemed to change as Murkowski stood before her fellow Republicans at the Hilton in downtown Anchorage on Friday.

Dozens of Ron Paul supporters -- who would ultimately get their man, Russ Millette, the votes he needed to become the next chair of the Alaska Republican Party -- found common ground with Joe Miller and his supporters. And Murkowski paid the price as they heckled her on stage.


http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/how-sen-murkowski-was-booed-paul-supporters-alaska-gop-convention


Hahahahaha! Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of douchenozzles.

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