Conservative Patriots Group

Recently the Frontiersman ran an editorial saying in essence that Joe Miller should concede the election to Lisa Murkoskie because when he came before the editorial board he was outraged that Lisa did not abide by the will of the people in the primary, so now he should abide by the will of the people in the general and that no matter what, the math does not add up in his favor. (I'm paraphrasing)

Well first, Joe is fignting on, I believe, based on what he has said, for 2 reasons.  One is the math, supposedly if you throw out all the contested votes Lisa would still win.  However, I don't know about you but I don't trust that "machines" necessarily accuarately count all the votes, so how do we know all the votes for Joe were actually counted.  I know this not just from a feeling but because I've actually worked the election in Anchorage on 3 occasions.  On all 3 occasions, from 1 precinct that I worked at, we had issues with the machine count. 

Secondly, Joe continues to fight because there are serious legal questions that affect not just this election, or these 2 candidates, but every election we will have in the future in Alaska.  The Lt. Governor made up decisions as he went along, not based on state law but as far as I can see he pulled them out of a hat.  He is and has been a friend and confidante to the Murkowski family for many years.  Where do his loyalties lie?  At the last minute a decision was made to allow lists of the write-in candidates be given at polling places.  This had NEVER been done before in AK.  I'm sure previous write-in candidates would have appreciated it when they were running.  Then he decides days before the write-in count that he is going to go against a very well written and strict Alaska statute that states all write in votes must have the oval filled in and the candidates name spelled completely and correctly.  This is OUR law, passed in OUR state legislature by OUR elected representatives.  Since when does the LT. Gov have the power to usurp written law.  Now the newspaper says - oh, but there is case law - well wait a minute, case law can and has changed from case to case, so shouldn't this be brought before independent judges to determine if the law as written is constitutional, and if it is, then it should be followed as written.  Do we follow "case law" in this country, or do we follow written laws that are enacted by the people we elect to represent us.  Too often activist judges have not followed state or federal contstitutional law, but written decisions based on their personal ideology.  This is "case law", and it should always be fought against following it.  If we don't then we are bound to fall as a state and a country because our constitution's are what bind us together as a society, what sets the rules to live by.

If Joe stops fighting this, then who will?  What will the rules for the next election be?  No one is going to fight to have the laws followed when there is no election going on.  This is the only chance we as the people of Alaska have, to have our voices heard.  Remember over 60% of Alaska DID NOT vote for Lisa.  She says she will fight for all Alaskans, then she should be willing to see this through and let the law as written stand on it's own merit, and be followed........or find out it's not constitutional, or she will continue to call for Joe to concede.  If she does that, then who speaks for the 60% who didn't vote for her.  Who speaks for us.  Either we abide by the constitution or we don't, that's the bottom line.