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Republican Gubernatorial Candidates Debate in Stamford
Watch more and discuss: http://stamford.itsrelevant.com/content/18462/gop-gubernatorial-debate-held-in-stamford Republican candidates in the race for Governor faced off Wednesday in Stamford....
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Southern. Republican. Ally for undocumented immigrants.
This is a short scene from "Documented," a film written and directed by Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented American---one of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. ...
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Joe Miller said Friday that he could not commit to supporting the eventual nominee should his own candidacy falter.
The three major Republican candidates were asked during a forum at the state GOP convention what steps they would take to ensure the Republican nominee defeats incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, if they themselves lose the primary. Moderator Ben Brown said over half the questions he received were on that theme.
Both Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and former state Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan said they would support the eventual nominee, though they, like Miller, also expressed confidence in their respective bids. Sullivan said the election was bigger than petty politics or personal ambition. Treadwell said the party needs to stick together.
But Miller said making such a commitment requires a baseline of trust. He said his opponents supported Sen. Lisa Murkowski in 2010, when she mounted a write-in campaign to keep her job just weeks after conceding the GOP primary to Miller. Without that baseline of trust, I cannot make such a commitment, he said.
Sullivan, who was Alaskas attorney general during the 2010 elections, told a reporter he didnt publicly take sides in that race. He said he was neutral, as someone in his position at the time should be.
Treadwell, who was elected lieutenant governor in November 2010, said he did not endorse a candidate in the fall election. He said he told anyone who asked at the time that the race could go into overtime, which it did. It wasnt certified until the end of December that year, after he had been sworn in. Treadwell said he later shared that he had voted for Murkowski.
The state Supreme Court, in the days leading to the election, allowed election workers to provide a list of write-in candidates to voters requesting one. The Department of Law, under Sullivan, argued in support of this practice as a way to help voters.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties challenged the practice. Miller spokesman Randy DeSoto said the campaign considered that to be Sullivan taking sides, saying there had been no prior precedent for such lists.
The 2010 Senate race was hard-fought and drawn-out. It was followed by a boisterous state convention in 2012, in which Ron Paul supporters elected like-minded individuals to leadership posts only to have those members removed from those positions later. The Anchorage Daily News this week reported that many Paul supporters planned to skip this years convention and some planned to join an alternative Republican group.
But many in the party are eager to move on. Calls for unity have been voiced repeatedly by Republican leaders since the convention kicked off Thursday. Current party chairman Peter Goldberg has stressed that all Republicans are important and welcome in the GOP.
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Republican US Senate hopefuls square off at forum
For years, theres been conflict between the Alaska Republican Partys establishment wing and its more hard-line faction of Ron Paul supporters. Those tensions bubbled to the surface on Friday when the partys U.S. Senate candidates took the stage at the state convention. APRNs Alexandra Gutierrez reports from Juneau.
Up until the very end, the Republican Senate candidate forum was a mostly a kumbaya-type affair. The candidates avoided personal attacks, and they stuck to their message of beating Democratic incumbent Mark Begich.
Dan Sullivan, a former attorney general and natural resources commissioner, sprinkled the word unite throughout his speech. He hammered that point when the moderator asked if he would support the partys nominee even if he lost the primary.
We need to unite, Sullivan told the audience. What Ive been trying to do for the last six months is unite all Republicans.
Mead Treadwell, the sitting lieutenant governor, also promised to support the nominee, if Republican voters dont choose him.
We as a party need to stick together, said Treadwell.
But then the moderator got to Joe Miller.
I think that when we make such a commitment, it takes a baseline of trust. Both of my opponents who are sitting here today supported Lisa Murkowski in her war on the Republican nominee in 2010, said Miller. Without that baseline of trust, I cannot make such a commitment.
Miller won the partys Senate primary back in 2010, defeating Murkowski in an upset.
While Murkowski had initially said she was going to support the partys choice, she ended up launching a write-in campaign and beating Miller in the general.
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