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Is that it for Jake?

Posted by Alaska_Politics

Posted: May 6, 2008 - 7:04 pm

From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage --

Democratic Congressional candidate Jake Metcalfe has called a press conference at his Anchorage campaign headquarters for tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Metcalfe hasn't been reachable today. I spoke to his wife and she wouldn't confirm or deny the rumors he is dropping out.

She said there wouldn't be any comment about that until the press conference.

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6 May 7, 2008 - 10:25am | erak

didn't he say their would be no further comment about that?

Maybe he is announcing that he is moving to San Francisco.

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May 7, 2008 - 12:14pm | rfn

Eureka!

Moving to San Francisco might be a very positive thing.

He's be positioned to move back to Alaska in a year or so and make a more promising run.

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5 May 7, 2008 - 8:27am | Valley_Dude

I assume

the ADN editorial board will be calling on Don Young to resign for failing to talk about why he is spending over $1 million in legal fees, for Ted Stevens to resign for failing to talk about why his house was raided by the FBI, for Ethan Berkowitz to quit for failing to release his income taxes, and for all the other Republicans whose offices have been raided or names have been linked to the CBC (Kevin Meyer, Mike Hawker, etc.) to resign unless they tell us why their offices were raided or why they have been linked to the Corrupt Bastards Club.

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4 May 7, 2008 - 7:47am | akmooster

you mean having the IBEW....

toss Arron Sellbig to the streets didn't propel him into the lead? I'm surprised. Bye Jake.

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3 May 6, 2008 - 9:37pm | hickandrat

I want to see more

carnage

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2 May 6, 2008 - 9:03pm | wooohooo

it's about time

should have done it months ago