Stevens and Young Could Face Serious Challenges

Next Election

http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/9086338p-9002385c.html

WASHINGTON -- Republicans scoffed when Democrats first asserted they would seriously challenge Alaska's two most entrenched members of Congress next year.

Republicans maintain that Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young will win re-election with the ease both have enjoyed through most of their careers. But the political terrain in the Last Frontier appears to be shifting, and two highly regarded young Democrats are seriously weighing bids against the state's two most powerful GOP politicians.

Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich is getting the full-court press from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Former state House Minority Leader Ethan Berkowitz has been in serious talks with the DCCC and has expressed interest in the Senate race, too.

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Berkowitz said Alaskans are finally fed up with one-party domination and corruption.

"People thought that was the way it was and that's just the way it always would be," he said. "You had a confluence of power consolidating in a handful of people and when you have that happen, it's corrupting."

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Keep your fingers crossed for a big change in Alaska....

PLEASE let those two corrupt republicans (oops, redundant!) be replaced with Democrats!