AK - Sullivan, Begich clash on policy in final US Senate debate

[Blue_In_AK]

http://www.adn.com/article/20141030/sullivan-begich-clash-policy-final-us-senate-debate
The comments on this one are also quite revealing. I am hopeful that Mark will hold on. He was much more in command of the issues and facts while Dan spouted Republican talking points, including the ridiculous "deciding vote on Obamacare" and "votes with Obama 97% of the time," when, in fact, Politifact has rated Begich one of the most independent senators in DC. Sullivan is an empty suit and a Koch plant.

Alaska’s two leading U.S. Senate candidates on Thursday night met for the last time before Election Day in a policy focused debate on the state’s public broadcasting network.

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The candidates were each allotted two questions to ask the other. Begich tried to pin down Sullivan on a pair of policy issues.

One was whether Sullivan would vote to reauthorize the Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism bill that’s been criticized for infringing on civil liberties; Begich’s second question was whether Sullivan backed a federal funding mechanism called “advance appropriations.” Begich used that second query to tweak his opponent for his support from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is coming to Alaska this weekend to stump for Sullivan, and whom Begich characterized as the “king of government shutdowns.”


Sullivan, meanwhile, asked Begich why he’d voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, and if he’d regretted running television ads in his 2008 U.S. Senate campaign attacking the longtime incumbent Republican, Ted Stevens. Begich denied running the attack ads, but Sullivan’s campaign quickly produced a link to a Begich commercial that did, in fact, quote Alaskans criticizing Stevens.

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Incidentally, just because the charges against Ted Stevens were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct does not mean he was innocent. He wasn't.

[randys1]

1. Oh no, Ted STevens is guilty and corrupt, all cons are.

Cons admit that they are cons to take your money and for no other reason

And if you have one in your family, watch out. they will steal from you as quickly as they will steal from a stranger

every
time

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Ted Stevens was even recorded saying

"We might go to jail for this." The only thing that saved his bacon was Eric Holder finding that the Prosecutors had been overzealous.