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Contributors

Erika Bolstad

Erika Bolstad covers Alaska issues, including the congressional delegation, from Washington, D.C., for McClatchy Newspapers. Before joining the bureau in 2007, she spent seven years as a reporter at the Miami Herald, where she covered politics, government and the state legislature. E-mail Erika at ebolstad@adn.com.

Sean Cockerham

Sean Cockerham writes about Alaska state politics. He spent three years based in Juneau for the ADN before joining the Tacoma News-Tribune to write about Washington state politics. He went to Iraq twice for the News Tribune, and previously wrote about Alaska government and politics for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. E-mail Sean at scockerham@adn.com

Kyle Hopkins

Kyle Hopkins covers politics and other stories for the ADN. He covered the 2006 campaign for governor, has blogged extensively about Alaska politics, covered Anchorage city government and was a reporter based in the Mat-Su. He grew up in Southeast Alaska and previously was a reporter at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage Press. E-mail Kyle at khopkins@adn.com

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Alaska political corruption

The FBI raided state legislatures offices in Aug. 2006, and the fallout since has been epic in Alaska's political world.

Sound familiar?

Posted by Alaska_Politics

Posted: November 14, 2008 - 1:18 pm

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From Kyle Hopkins in Anchorage --

The Wall Street Journal has a short item today on the Republican Governors Association picking new leadership, noting that Gov. Sarah Palin isn't on the list.

Yesterday, we talked to political science professor Frank Gilliam, dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs, about Palin's next move in national politics -- including a potential senate run. Gilliam, who'd been following coverage of Palin's appearance at the RGA meeting this week, had this to say:

"There is some concern inside the Republican party that she has been circumventing establishment Republican circles, that she has been running a media campaign of which the party's certainly not controlling and therefore either being self-anointed or media-anointed as the future of the Republican party."

And: "The party likes to control things. You know, they think they control money, they think they control state party machines, and she may decide that she doesn't need them, and that may be their concern."

That's going to sound familiar to anyone who was here for Palin's battle against the state GOP in 2006.

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