Popular Conservative Blog Backs Alaska Democrats
Popular conservative blog RedState.com took a huge leap Monday by endorsing Alaska Democrats Mark Begich and Ethan Berkowitz. Begich is the Anchorage mayor running against Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, who was found guilty of hiding more than $250,000 in gifts, including about $200,000 in renovations at his Girdwood, Alaska, home. Berkowitz is challenging Republican Rep. Don Young who is being investigated as part of a corruption probe involving high-ranking Alaskan officials.
The directors of RedState, whose endorsement carried the subhead "Party Loyalty Has Its Limits," wrote: "We stand at a perilous moment in American politics, with the real possibility that the Democrats could get to 60 votes in the Senate. This is no time for litmus tests of party loyalty, for abandoning our own." "Good conscience," the authors said, compelled them to advise Alaskans to vote for the Democratic duo.
"Ted Stevens and Don Young have been a pox on the Republican house for too long -- too addicted to the pork barrel, too fast and loose with ethics," RedState said. Stevens' conviction is the "exclamation point on an era in Republican politics in general and Alaska politics in particular that needs to end (and which Gov. Sarah Palin has been battling to clean up)." The blog added: "Republicans need to clean our own house. Washington cannot too soon see the end of Stevens and Young."
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