Things are not exactly going swimmingly for Alaskan Democrats. Just hours ago their nominee for governor,
Byron Mallott, said he would withdraw and run instead for lieutenant governor alongside an independent candidate, Bill Walker. Yes, Alaskan politics is complicated. As part of a merged ticket Mr. Walker will resign his membership in the Republican Party, while Mr. Mallott will keep his Democratic Party membership. Walker lost in 2010 to Governor Sean Parnell in the Republican primary. It will be the first time since 1959 the Democrats have not had a candidate for governor on the ballot.
Looking to the senate race, Senator Mark Begich's campaign had to withdraw an offensive campaign ad that angered just about everyone. His campaign released a TV ad last week that pointed blame at Republican candidate Dan Sullivan, Alaska’s former attorney general, for the early release of a sex offender who has been charged in the murder of an elderly couple and the sexual assault of a child. Sullivan objected to the ad but when the child's family accused Begich of exploiting a minor child for political gain the ad was pulled.
“You are tearing this family apart to the point that your ad was so shocking to them they now want to permanently leave the state as quickly as possible," said the family's attorney.
A war on children?
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