Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 7/14-16. Likely voters. MoE 4% ( 5/12-14 results ) If 2008 election for Congress were held today, for whom would you vote for if the choices were between Ethan Berkowitz, the Democrat, and Don Young, the Republican? Young (R) 40 (40) Berkowitz (D) 51 (50) If 2008 election for U.S. Senate were held today, for whom would you vote for if the choices were between Mark Begich,...
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The Barack Obama presidential campaign is pouring money into the Republican bastion of Alaska to beat John McCain and to help the Alaska Democrats running for Congress against Ted Stevens and Don Young.
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Hot on the heels of the news that Don Young was outraised in Q2 by both primary opponent Sean Parnell and likely general election opponent Ethan Berkowitz is one more thing Young's gotta worry about: the Club for Growth just made a $100,000 TV ad buy targeting him. (And in Alaska's cheapo media market , $100,000 goes a long, long way.) The 15-second ads hit Alaska's avuncular, blustery, corrupt GOP...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Anger over Huck PAC's endorsement of Alaska governor Don Young continues to trickle in. I just received a release from conservative pioneer Richard Viguerie on the topic. Here's an excerpt: "Ever since he won the...
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Don Young spent about as much campaign money on lawyers helping him fend off a federal corruption probe as he raised for his re-election bid over the past three months, campaign finance filings show.
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Don Young spent about as much campaign money on lawyers helping him fend off a federal corruption probe as he raised for his re-election bid over the past three months, campaign finance filings show.
eyeon08.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Two :15 spots from ClubforGrowth.net on Don Young and the gas tax. If Young had his way, it would be $5 gas. Time to give the boot to the AFL-CIO's favorite Republican by supporting Sean Parnell. And if you need some more convincing, watch this:
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
State Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux is hitting the airwaves with the first ad of her primary challenge to deny longtime Rep. Don Young another term. The 60-second ad is available for viewing on YouTube, but embedding is unfortunately (and puzzlingly) disabled. KTUU reports that LeDoux is spending an impressive $100K on the ad buy -- that's quite a lot for the Alaska market. I like the move for a few reasons...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed will join U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy to cut the ribbon at a new manufacturing facility in East Providence. The two politicians will join Don Young, the CEO of Aspen Aerogels, which is opening a $30-million manufacturing...
From On High (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
If Representative Don Young isn't embarrassment enough to the GOP, those who suck up to him surely must be. Aren't they? I wonder sometimes: Hogs of a Feather The Wall Street Journal Since his GOP presidential campaign ended, Mike Huckabee has been busy with personal appearances, TV guest spots and setting up his own political action committee, known as Huck PAC. But the donations that his PAC has...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
You may be wondering: Since Don Young and William Jefferson have been exposed as shamefully corrupt, what do they spend their time in Congress doing? Answer: Fighting bed bugs. Seriously. Young and Jefferson are among the co-sponsors of the Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite Act of 2008 (yes, that's its real name), which proposes to provide $200 million over four years in grants to states to fight bed bugs...
Texas Kaos - Front Page (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
From my friend, Don Young. FWCanDo exists because I was a NIMBY. My wife and I live across from a 160 acre native prairie preserve known as, Tandy Hills Natural Area. It is a little piece of heaven on earth in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas, aka, Dirty Ol' Town. You can read more about Tandy Hills here: http://www.tandyhills.org Tandy Hills is no less valuable than the Galisteo Basin of Santa Fe County,...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Rep. Don Young (R-AK) and his staff were quick to issue a denial last month of anything more than "friendly" ties between the Alaskan Representative and the group of nine federal lobbyists who, according to the "Intern Survival Guide," were...
Sunlight Foundation (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Lobbyists strike at Congress while the legislation is hot; the housing industry is pumping money into congressional coffers; Don Young has his Wolf Pack and former Rep. Curt Weldon has Iraq and Libya; and a Kansas congressman sends campaign e-mails from the wrong computers. Campaign contributions and lobbying are as American as apple pie, this [...]
Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Facing bad publicity and a dwindling campaign account, U.S. Rep. Don Young last year turned to the "AK Wolfpack," a group of more than 20 lobbyists, including former Young staffers and retired former congressmen, with close ties to the Alaska Republican. Young's chief of staff, Mike Anderson, sent the Wolfpack an e-mail to tell them that national Democrats planned aggressive fundraising and claims...
