Leesa Mookouski gets radio show host thrown off the air.

Wow, a sitting Senator gets a radio show host thrown off the air for going with an idea to get numerous people signed up to run as write in candidates. Tell me folks, are people actuallly going to vote for this person?

Here is the story-Palin rips Murkowski, says “hired guns threatened” talk show host

Want to know how the world will look if Congress reinstates the Fairness Doctrine? Take a long look at what happened in Alaska when a radio talk-show host ran afoul of the political Establishment. After running a contest to get Alaskans to add themselves to a list of write-in candidates for the Senate race, Lisa Murkowski’s ad buyer threatened to get the FCC involved in Dan Fagan’s “electioneering” — and got him taken off the air. Now Sarah Palin has launched a broadside from her Facebook site against Murkowski for attacking free speech and political discourse:

Sarah Palin got into it by posting on her Facebook page. The link can be found at the above link. A snippet-

Yesterday, Lisa Murkowski’s hired guns threatened radio host Dan Fagan, and more importantly, the station that airs Fagan’s show, with legal action for allegedly illegal “electioneering.” The station, unlike Murkowski, who is flush with millions of dollars from vested corporate interests, does not have a budget for a legal defense. So it did what any small market station would do when threatened by Beltway lawyers charging $500 to $1000 an hour – they pulled Dan Fagan off the air.

So, this is what the Queen does when her subjects get uppity, she gets them fired.

What next folks? I mean, this is getting ridiculous.

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Here is another article on what happened. Much more detailed.

Talk radio host off the air after rallying listeners to run for Senate

I guess only the high and mighty are allowed to run for Senate. There must be a vetting process or something, kinda like the Repub or Dem parties maybe?

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About halfway through Fagan's show Thursday afternoon a caller phoned in to say he had just registered as a write-in candidate in the Senate race, which includes Miller, Murkowski, and Democrat Scott McAdams. The caller's provocation -- and the reason Fagan liked the idea -- was the Division of Elections' decision to provide voters who ask with a list of the write-in candidates. The Alaska Supreme Court is currently looking at the legality of that decision. Flooding that list with 150 names ranging from Michael Ames to Kathy Jo Zurek, Fagan figured, would mean fewer votes for Murkowski.