The first full day of the 2008 Republican Party of Alaska Convention at the Captain Cook Hotel in downtown Anchorage.Rabbi Yosef Greenberg of the Lubavitch Center of Alaska gave an invocation and prayer, and then introduced State Representative Gabrielle LeDoux of Kodiak, who has filed to run in the GOP primary against Don Young.
LeDoux was wanly received, as she began a fairly short speech that emphasized her concerns about corruption and cronyism within the Alaskan Republican Party. Her address had a feeble joke about attorneys - she is a lawyer - comparing them to lobbyists. She didn't bring up anything along the issues line, which was disappointing.
Mat-Su Valley GOP activist Bert Hall introduced Rep. Young, who was quite animated, pulling one gag line after another out of his schtick bag, as the audience warmed to him.
Young brought up his million dollars in legal fees, by stating, " What price freedom? What price justice?
"I've made an agreeement with my lawyers and I've made an agreement with the Department of Justice, not to comment."
After the opening session here - called "Breakfast with U.S. House Candidates - people have broken up into small district groups, figuring out what to do during the General Session I, which begins in a few minutes.
I had an opportunity to chat with Rabbi Greenburg for the first time in almost four years, before he left. Then Bert Hall came over, and we discussed the Central Committee meeting that was held yesterday evening. He wasn't in it, but he stated that it went far longer than the hour that had been alloted to it, and a decision was made not to bring the issue of Randy Ruedrich's continuing chairmanship of the party up in front of the main body of delegates. Just how it is to be handled will be decided later today.
Update: Dennis Zaki and Stefan Taufen have a good article up on yesterday evening's Central Committee meeting at the Alaska Report.
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