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ANCHORAGE - High-stakes, as the big day nears. Now, it's down to bare-knuckled campaigning in the East Anchorage battle between Democratic Senator Bill Wielechowski and former Republican Representative Bob Roses. Roses said, "I would say in the last week to 10 days it's gotten pretty negative." Wielechowski said almost daily his constituents are getting new fliers that attack or mock him. "You know, it's like David versus Goliath. I'm getting blasted by the oil industry, by outside special interest groups. They’re pouring in six figures to try to get their $2 billion tax break." Roses, who has been attacked in an ongoing television ad, said the contest is turning off voters. "At this point in time, I think, people are just sick of the campaign. At every level. They just want it to be over. And I can agree with them." Much of the aggressive back and forth has been happening between independent expenditure groups, who are supposed to have no contact with the candidates. But Wielechowski and Roses do express disdain for each other's position on oil production taxes. Wielechowski said, "When he was in the Legislature, he voted against ACES. Had he gotten his way, instead of having a 16, 18 billion dollar savings, we'd be billions of dollars poorer. We’d be running $2 billion a year deficits right now." Roses countered that something needs to be done to stimulate oil production. "I am the only one out there with a plan that is absolutely clear, concise. It has a formula so that everybody that looks at it can actually calculate how much of an income tax break they would get off of the progressivity piece of aces." In Senate District G, the G might stand for “gotcha.” Wielechowski says Roses falsely claimed an endorsement from former Anchorage School Superintendent Carol Comeau. Roses says he did not do that. Roses says he quoted a letter from Comeau when he was being attacked on education funding. |
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TedtheBear said on Friday, Nov 2 at 9:35 PM
Funny...by this time of the election, all I heard is "bah..bah..bah..bah" like the way grown ups talk on Charlie Brown TV special.
105543896Jon said on Saturday, Nov 3 at 6:02 AM
At age 68, I am for the first time considering to not vote for anyone or thing. Being fed up with Rep & Dem at every level. There is but one way to assemble a auto engine to make it run correctly, there are not two opposing engineers at the plant arguing which way to make it run correctly. There is just one way to make a country run correctly, what is it?
105564791Robo said on Sunday, Nov 4 at 11:55 AM
Hey Bill, who's shotgun was that you took your picture with...you claim to be a outdoors man, but I'm not sure, when you pose with a shotgun that would be more for use in home defense...and what with the earmuffs...were you target shooting? Go negative and it tells me that you can't stand on your record. Also, I see you as a tool for the union an not your district. Hopefully, the East side will go with a conservative and stop the mad spending from the capital.
105671156lluna said on Monday, Nov 5 at 8:13 PM
im going to vote for all those that ktva and their partners they just had on TV trying to convince us not to vote for, sad and pathetic that ktva and alaskalink thinks they had some right to use their news station to push their libTARD/demonRAT agenda...
105807366lluna said on Tuesday, Nov 6 at 6:35 PM
if this "bipartisan coalition" survives then the best way to disband them will to sue them..
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