"DU buds, need your help with local poll... HELP !!!" - Message from larissa (1000+ posts)

[Breeze54]

I cross posted this as a favor to Larissa.

There's only one hour left to vote!! Vote here:--->>>http://www.ktuu.com /

Can you guys help to DU the poll and put Ted Stevens in jail or at least out of the Senate?

He's a RethugliCON of the worst kind... under investigation, as we speak.

DU buds, need your help with local poll... HELP !!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2933752&mesg_id=2933752

Can you please (pretty, pretty please) go to this link and vote for Democrat Mark Begich over corrupt bastard Ted Stevens?

I know that internet polls don't mean much, but this one gets serious media play in Anchorage.

It is being freeped (Mark is very popular here) but it won't take many votes to get it back on track.

The poll will only be up another 1.5 hours or so.

PLEASE HELP --------------> http://www.ktuu.com /

Remember ~ MARK BEGICH !!

Thank you! :) larissa (1000+ posts)

[vanboggie]

1. Done!

Stevens is a lizard (with apologies to lizards of a higher order).

[Breeze54]

7. LOL ... poor lizards always get compared to shitheads!

:P

:hi: & Thanks!

[ReadTomPaine]

2. K&R - Go Mark! Make Nick proud...

Here's yet another thread about Mark's run:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3200994

[TheDoorbellRang]

3. Done. Needs a lot more help 47-53 now in favor of Stevens

47-53% right now in favor of Stevens

[Breeze54]

5. It's getting better but you're right! ~~~ C'mon DU!!

Let's DU this poll to the max and vote that bastard out!!

[MagickMuffin]

4. Current Numbers

If the general election were tomorrow, who would you support for U.S. Senate?
Thank you for participating in our poll. Here are the results so far.

Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich 47%

Incumbent Sen. Ted Stevens 53%

Of course this poll is worthless since anyone can vote for it, even if they don't live in Alaska.

But above is the current numbers.

[Breeze54]

8. This is a frequented News Website in Alaska... it does matter!!

The people there will see that he isn't that liked by their neighbors
and friends and that may influence them to vote the bastard out! ;)

[MagickMuffin]

12. Well I did vote against Teddy Bridge to Nowhere Stevens

I guess I didn't look at it with that perspective. Thanks for pointing it out.

:hi:

[Breeze54]

13. You're welcome!

Begich (sp?) he's the son of the AK (D) Congressman who's plane disappeared
in 1970 along with the Dem Speaker of the House from Louisiana. Very suspicious.

[MagickMuffin]

26. Okay, now that shook some brain cells, so away to researching the details

When you mentioned the plane disappearance it made me think back to Hale Boggs, Cokie Roberts father, and if this was the same plane. Sure enough it is.

Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. (February 15, 1914 – Undetermined; presumably October 16, 1972) was an American Democratic politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana. He was the House Majority Leader.

In 1972, while he was still Majority Leader, the twin engine airplane in which Boggs was traveling over a remote section of Alaska disappeared. The airplane presumably crashed and was never found. Congressman Nick Begich was also presumed killed in the same accident.

Disappearance and search

As Majority Leader, Boggs often campaigned for others. On October 16, 1972, he was aboard a twin engine Cessna 310 with Representative Nick Begich of Alaska, who was facing a possible tight race in the November 1972 general election against the Republican candidate Don Young, when it disappeared during a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. The only others on board were Begich's aide, Russell Brown, and the pilot, Don Jonz; the four were heading to a campaign fundraiser for Begich. (Begich won the 1972 election posthumously with 56 percent to Young's 44 percent, though Young would win the special election to replace Begich and has won every election to the seat since then.)

In the largest search ever mounted by the U.S. military, Coast Guard, Navy, and Air Force planes searched for the party. On November 24, 1972, after 39 days, the search was abandoned. Neither the wreckage of the plane nor the pilot's and passengers' remains were ever found. The accident prompted Congress to pass a law mandating Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) in all U.S. civil aircraft.

Both Boggs and Begich were re-elected that November. House Resolution 1 of January 3, 1973 officially recognized Boggs's presumed death and opened the way for a special election.


Speculation, suspicions, and theories

The events surrounding Boggs' death have been the subject of much speculation, suspicion, and numerous conspiracy theories. These theories often center on his involvement with the Warren Commission, but some tie his death to alleged corruption charges or his outspoken opposition to powerful Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover. Some people, including several of Begich's children, have suggested that Richard Nixon had a hand in Boggs' death in order to thwart the Watergate investigation.

However, none of these theories has ever been proved, and one of Boggs' children (Roberts) has publicly stated that the rumors about Boggs' wanting to reopen the Kennedy assassination case are completely false.

Very interesting..... It would have even more interesting if Mark Begich was running against Young, since that was the Seat his father held.

[Breeze54]

27. Wow! Quite the story! I hope this son, Begich, wins this!

:yourock:

:D

And I also hope Young loses this time too!!
Isn't he also up for re-election?
I think I read that somewhere last night.

:hi:

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

6. Done.

Thank you for participating in our poll. Here are the results so far. Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich 48%
Incumbent Sen. Ted Stevens 52%

[Breeze54]

10. Mark Begich 48% to Stevens 52% ?!? You guys ROCK!! Keep going!!

:woohoo: :yourock: :woohoo:

[Eurobabe]

9. Done, get that crook Stevens outta there!!

[Breeze54]

11. Can always count on you!!

:D Thanks!!

He has to go... to jail!!!

[Eurobabe]

15. you bet!!

:hug:

[horseshoecrab]

14. done! n/t

[Breeze54]

16. Welcome to DU, horseshoecrab & Thank You!!

:hi:

Did you happen to see what the poll results are? I can't get in now that I've voted.

[horseshoecrab]

19. thanks!

Thanks breeze54! Great to be here. :-)

When I voted, (just before posting) the results were at 48% Begich and 52 % Stevens.

horseshoecrab

[Breeze54]

21. Thanks for the update!

:hi:

[horseshoecrab]

23. results are here:

http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=7937724


Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich 46%
Incumbent Sen. Ted Stevens 54%

Not exactly a wildly ringing endorsement for the incumbent.

horseshoecrab

[Breeze54]

24. Yeah I know but I can't pop that poll anymore.

It won't show me the results anymore. I removed one cookie but there
must be another on my computer blocking me from re-doing the poll.

Thanks for posting that info.

I'm guessing some RWers are trying to beat DU! They lurk here. :grr:

[horseshoecrab]

25. Breeze 54 ...

I pulled up a different browser which may have helped. But, it's in their news items now, so that may have helped too.

You know, if the mayor of Boston polled this close to Ted Kennedy or John Kerry, those senators would have a whole lot to worry about.

It seems that the people of Alaska are rethinking what their Senator Stevens is all about!

horseshoecrab

[Swamp Rat]

17. I get to k&r her thread twice!

:D

[Breeze54]

18. You K&R whore!! lmao!

:rofl: Thank you! :P

:hi:

[donheld]

20. Done

:bounce:

[Breeze54]

22. Thanks from Larissa & me!

:hi: