WC believes that in any fair political system, the Joe Miller Senate campaign is dead. Sure, it can be hard to tell. Decades ago, when WC was a young pup. he was coming down French Pete Creek Trail in the Oregon Cascades and stepped on a big timber rattler, breaking its spine just behind the head. The snake thrashed around for a while afterwards, but it was dead. The dead snake that was Joe Miller’s political campaign continues to thrash around, too.
And dead critters attract flies, and one of the nastier species has arrived in Juneau: Floyd Brown. Here’s some quotes about Joe Miller’s latest “consultant”:
- Salon.com magazine: “He has given conservatism a rank smell for two decades –and if there is a racist odor to the coming general election campaign, it is likely to emanate from his vicinity.” (April 25, 2008)
- Mary Matalin: “I’m not a big fan of Floyd Brown…He gave us the Willie Horton ads that the Republican Party has had to eat for two election cycles now.”
- USA Today: “[Brown has] established himself as one of the nation’s dirtiest political strategists.”
- George Stephanopoulos: “Floyd Brown is a slimy thug for hire.”
In addition to the infamous Willie Brown attack ad, he’s given us Hillary: The Movie, a pay-per-call number to listen to misleadingly edited Bill Clinton telephone calls with Genifer Flowers and, of course, Citizens United. That’s the group and the case that gave corporations the right to secretly spend as much money as they want in political campaigns, without accountability or reporting.
And what was Floyd Brown’s first contribution to the Miller campaign’s efforts to avoid the inevitable? To raise unsupported, unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. WC won’t presume to speak for other Alaskans here, but WC knows some of the local election officials, and they are, to a person, scrupulously honest. Attacking their integrity, accusing them of complicity in supposed cheating, is simply evil. And, in the long term, could have a terrible impact on the Alaska election process. No one wants to sign up to be called names.
Shame on Joe Miller for bringing this thug to Alaska. Shame on local media for treating any of Brown’s unsupported, unsubstantiated claims as newsworthy. And shame on Brown for bringing his slime to Alaska.
Wickersham's Conscience 
There is no shame in losing an election.
Joe Miller has brought shame to running and losing an election.
How anybody could vote for this man after it was revealed how he tried to cheat the system, lied and damaged his relationship with his co workers and handcuffed a reporter, well I think you would have to be brain dead.
There is nothing about this man that is honorable.
He continues to be a disgrace to Alaska, lawyers and Thank God he will have no vote in the Senate that will affect my life!
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Flies come to a carcass to feed. What are they feeding on? I understand Miller is insolvent. I doubt there is much left in his campaign fund. I doubt that Miller’s big-shot backers are so unhappy with Murkowski — who, after all, is a rather conservative Republican — that they would be willing to keep throwing money at a candidate whose charm faded weeks ago, to put it mildly, who could well turn out to be an uncontrollable maverick in office, and who has very little chance of winning.
Miller has started a Joe Miller Recount Fund, appealing to the TP faithful. Might the shenanigans we’ve been seeing have at least the secondary purpose of paying off Miller’s debts? Could not a legally separate “recount fund” choose to fund the recount effort by way of Miller’s campaign fund? That way, the new money would go to pay off the campaign fund’s debts first, including the large debt it owes to Miller. Might Miller, his wife, or another convenient conduit, be richly remunerated by the recount fund for his or her services? Or might the documents creating the “recount fund” be so loosely drafted that Miller’s personal debts could be paid from it?
I’m thinking that something like this would explain efforts to maintain the appearance of a disputed election even when Miller has no chance of winning. Brown may have been hired to find election “fraud” by hook or crook to keep the “dispute” alive, even if no court would conceivably void the election, in order to keep money coming in. WC, are you as cynical as I am?
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