It is an attempt at voter intimidation. It is identity theft AGAIN.
By James Brooks
The U.S. Department of Justice (click here) filed suit against the Alaska Division of Elections late Thursday, seeking to block the division from certifying the result of the state’s U.S. Senate election if the Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, wins.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday in Florida that he ordered the lawsuit be filed.
“I’m the one that said, ‘do it,’” he said.
Peltola is the leading opponent to incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, and polls show her with a small lead over Sullivan, but the race also includes two other candidates — Republicans Gerald Heikes of Palmer and Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg.
In the complaint, the Department of Justice claims that Dan J. Sullivan’s candidacy is “frivolous,” and was intended solely to confuse voters and benefit Peltola.
Until there is an investigation to determine the extent of that confusion, the Department of Justice argues, Alaska should not be permitted to certify the result of the ongoing Senate election.
Legal experts immediately dismissed the federal argument as bunk....
The U.S. Department of Justice (click here) filed suit against the Alaska Division of Elections late Thursday, seeking to block the division from certifying the result of the state’s U.S. Senate election if the Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, wins.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday in Florida that he ordered the lawsuit be filed.
“I’m the one that said, ‘do it,’” he said.
Peltola is the leading opponent to incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, and polls show her with a small lead over Sullivan, but the race also includes two other candidates — Republicans Gerald Heikes of Palmer and Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg.
In the complaint, the Department of Justice claims that Dan J. Sullivan’s candidacy is “frivolous,” and was intended solely to confuse voters and benefit Peltola.
Until there is an investigation to determine the extent of that confusion, the Department of Justice argues, Alaska should not be permitted to certify the result of the ongoing Senate election.
Legal experts immediately dismissed the federal argument as bunk....
There are real issues. When Trump pulls his identity theft of a candidate it instills concern where it does not belong. It distracts from the FACTS that his administration have failed EVERYONE.
The country doesn't concern itself with Alaska that much. It has been a bit more independent because of the petroleum industry, but, the climate has had it's toll there, too. The salmon are an industry. While they are wild in the Pacific Ocean they are still an industry for Alaska as well as a tourist interest. There are a lot of problems and no one is dealing with them. It is an inconvenient truth for Trump to actually take on the real issues so much as deflect to the wars he has created to bolster his ideology of being a power broker.
Trump has had TWO years to get it right and he hasn't yet.
By Corrinne Smith
