Alaska radio host stirs up write-in competition for Murkowski - dozens have filed their candidacy

[Liberal_in_LA]

Alaska radio host stirs up write-in competition for Murkowski

Listeners heed a popular conservative radio host's call to mount their own campaigns in an effort to derail the senator's bid to keep her seat. The move comes as she surges ahead of 'tea party' Republican Joe Miller in a pair of polls.

Reporting from Seattle — With U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski gaining momentum in a write-in bid to keep her seat, a conservative Alaska talk show host prompted listeners to engage in "civil disobedience" Thursday by mounting competing write-in candidacies across the state.

By day's end, dozens of people had flocked to the Division of Elections in Anchorage to file for the U.S. Senate seat before the 5 p.m. deadline. Many more apparently heeded KFQD host Dan Fagan's exhortation to download and fax in write-in applications in what he admitted was an attempt to confuse voters who ask for a list of certified write-in candidates before entering the ballot box.

"Looks like I'm running for the U.S. Senate," a caller told Fagan on Thursday afternoon.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-1029-alaska-senate-race-20101029,0,1539339.story

[eleny]

1. I hope this hands the win to Scott McAdams

[David Zephyr]

2. That's actually a great thing for Dems.

He's actually telling conservatives to do this. That's great.

[sally cat]

3. That's pretty funny.