I've gotten two reports this morning of Jake Metcalfe signs disappearing overnight in Anchorage. They're still up at his Anchorage campaign office, though.Somebody suggested that maybe Bill Scannell went around, taking them down late last night, as payback.
Meanwhile, the Anchorage Daily News editors must be reading Progressive Alaska. They editorialized this morning on what I wrote about last Friday, regarding the opacity of Jake Metcalfe's May 1st press release.
At that time, I wrote, "Jake's Thursday press release could have been written by Don Young's staff - This is the final comment the Metcalfe campaign will be making on this subject - was indeed the final statement of the release. But, unless Jake starts canceling appearances, he will have to continue to address this issue if he expects to win the August primary."
Today, the ADN echoed PA from five days ago, declaring, "Before Scannell resigned, Metcalfe told the Daily News he'd try to get to the bottom of what happened. But -- abracadabra! Scannell resigned, and Metcalfe miraculously expects the whole affair to go away. He issued a terse written statement saying "It's time for me to move on" and "This is the final comment the Metcalfe campaign will be making on this subject."
"This blatant stonewalling isn't acceptable from someone who wants to serve in Congress. Metcalfe's maneuver here is just as bad as Congressman Don Young refusing to say why he has spent over $1 million on lawyers."
Actually, ADN editors, Young's conduct in this matter, and in many others, is far, far worse. Duh.... I'm detecting more Don Young Bipolar Disorder at the highest levels of the ADN.
Update - 11:00 a.m: The 4'X8' signs on Tudor went down by request of the MOA. That's according to Jake's office. I asked that they pass on to their candidate that I hope he deals real soon with the ADN editorial's issues. I was told, "Thanks, I'll pass that on to Jake."
3 comments:
Phil,
You are so right. As crappy as the redirection of websites is...he didn't redirect them to child porn or rotten.com. It was snarky, but hardly on the level of Don Young's grilling by his own in Washington. BIZARRE! The media is doing a lot of work for Young on this one. It's the Dean scream, I don't get the fascination at all, and think you are right on to call the media on it. I expect nothing less from you!
Great picture Phil. Great job bird-dogging Metcalfe too. I'm bet the first thing Jake does every morning is check your blog to see what you've caught him doing next. DZ
Reminds me of a comment I made re: Hillary last year.
"She's toast in Alaska before the bread bag even opens"
Nice to be separating the wheat from the chaff early on.
All of these idealistic alumni of the Watergate watershed moment in U.S. history proving they learned the wrong lesson about "dirty tricks".
Onward and upward with Diane Benson!
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