The withdrawal of charges against former Alaska senator Ted Stevens was a shock. Yesterday, the Alaska Republican Party claimed that the man who beat him in last year’s election, Democrat Mark Begich, should resign his seat and stand for a special election.
But guess who joined the chorus?
Gov. Sarah Palin and the head of the Alaska Republican Party said Thursday that Sen. Mark Begich should give his Senate seat up to a special election now that prosecutors have abandoned their case against Ted Stevens. “Alaskans deserve to have a fair election not tainted by some announcement that one of the candidates was convicted fairly of seven felonies, when in fact it wasn’t a fair conviction,” Palin said in a Thursday interview with the Daily News.