Distribution and sales of beer aren’t allowed under the state’s shutdown, since beer licensing was put on hold before June 30th, for budget reasons. At Wall Street Journal , ” Minnesota Shutdown Could Dry Up Beer ,” and Minneapolis Star-Tribune , ” Shutdown forcing MillerCoors to pull beer from shelves .” (Via Memeorandum .) Also at Power Line , ” NOW IT’S GETTING SERIOUS! ” If renewing liquor licenses isn’t a core function of government, what is?
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Government Shutdown in Minnesota Threatens Beer Sales
See, ” Marisa Miller Breaks the Mold .” Also at Marisa Milller’s blog .
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VIDEO: Marisa Miller at Boston Common Magazine
Jodi Miller’s on vacation, via Theo Spark :
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NewsBusted: ‘NY gallery opens photo gallery devoted to Obama’
The National Republican Congressional Committee takes to the airwaves, to let voters know about Rep. Brad Miller’s vote to raise the debt ceiling without any additional efforts to control spending.
TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian man who blogged about his battle with colorectal cancer left a final post before he died last week, a message that drew millions of hits. A day after Derek Miller, 41, died in Burnaby, British Columbia, of complications from cancer, a message entitled “The Last Post” was posted on his site penmachine.com. “Here it is. I’m dead, and this is my last post to my blog. In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from the punishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote the first part of the process of turning this from an active website to an archive,” read the post. Miller, who been blogging for 10 years, had been one of the best known bloggers in British Columbia. He was diagnosed with stage four metastatic colorectal cancer in 2007. “It turns out that no one can imagine what’s really coming in our lives. We can plan, and do what we enjoy, but we can’t expect our plans to work out,” he wrote in his final post. “I think and hope that’s what my daughters can take from my disease and death. And that my wonderful, amazing wife Airdrie can see too. Not that they could die any day, but that they should pursue what they enjoy, and what stimulates their minds, as much as possible they can be ready for opportunities, as well as not disappointed when things go sideways, as they inevitably do.” Miller’s post-mortem message May 4 went viral, drawing 143 comments and causing the site to crash and forcing a friend of Miller’s to move the site to another server. His wife, Airdrie Miller, said she believed the site had about 3 million hits after his last post. Alistair Calder, the friend who moved the site to a larger server after it crashed, said it could have been as high as 8 million hits, but it was hard to pin down the number because of the crash. Airdrie Miller told The Associated Press that her daughter updated her Facebook status shortly after saying her dad’s blog went viral because he was such a great guy. “I thought that was very sweet, touching and true,” said Airdrie Miller, adding that though she knew he would succumb to the cancer, it’s just now setting in that her partner of 16 years is really gone. Airdrie Miller, who also blogged about her experience dealing with his cancer at talkingtoair.com, said her husband had lost his voice for the past two months and his blog helped her cope, knowing that though he couldn’t speak, his mind was still active. “When he lost his voice is when I really started reading his blog so I could know what was going on in his head. We used text messaging, twitter, all forms of social media to connect,” she said. “And even now, when my daughter is finding it hard to cope, she’ll text me in the middle of the night and sometimes I wake up to 43 texts from her. All these modes have allowed us all to communicate while going through such a difficult time. His blog will become a memorial for me.” Friend and fellow blogger Mark Blevis said Miller’s death caught him off guard. “I didn’t expect his decline in health over the last few months to be so fast. More importantly, you realize how small the world has become and how close we’ve all become through our online relationships, which become real world relationships,” said Blevis. Miller wore many hats in his lifetime. He had a marine biologist degree, but had worked as a writer and editor since the 1980s. He was also a musician and photographer. In his blog’s bio section, he wrote that he discovered his cancer was terminal late in 2010 and that he expected it to kill him sometime in 2011 or early 2012. The father of two tween girls blogged about everything from getting his voice back to sipping cherry cola at 3 a.m. in his hospital bed to his realization that death is impending. In a post entitled “A wondrous place” Miller wrote, “The world, indeed the whole universe, is a beautiful, astonishing, wondrous place. There is always more to find out. I don’t look back and regret anything, and I hope my family can find a way to do the same.”
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‘Here it Is. I’m Dead, and This Is My Last Post to My Blog.’
I guess you could say Joe Miller will give us his New Year's Resolution tomorrow night: Joe Miller, the Republican Nominee for the U.S. Senate, will hold a Press Conference & Availability at 2:00 pm Friday, December 31, 2010. What: Miller will address his plans moving forward, including whether he will pursue a federal appeal or state election contest. As U2 sang, “Nothing changes on New Year's Day.” Jim Geraghty
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What Is Joe Miller Resolving to Do in 2011?
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by Republican Joe Miller and lifted a stay on certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate election, clearing the way for Sen. Lisa Murkowski to officially be declared the winner later this week. The rulings by U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline mean Alaska state officials will likely certify the November election results either Wednesday or Thursday. That would allow Murkowski to be sworn in when the new term of Congress convenes next week, and make her the first U.S. Senate candidate since 1954 to win with a write-in campaign. “This is the best possible outcome for us,” her campaign manager, Kevin Sweeney, said Tuesday. Miller, a tea party favorite who defeated Murkowski in Alaska’s GOP primary only to be confronted with her more-energetic November write-in campaign, could still appeal. He has said he’s willing to go to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary — with one of his main goals being ensuring there’s an accurate, fair vote tally. But he also has said he is taking his legal steps one at a time. His spokesman, Randy DeSoto, said Beistline’s decision was being reviewed. Beistline had been expected to lift his stay on certifying the election this week, but his decision to toss out Miller’s claims — a day after Miller filed them — was more surprising. Miller initially sued in federal court but Beistline determined the state courts were in a better position, at least initially, to decide who had won. Beistline barred the state from certifying results until Miller’s claims had been addressed, and he allowed Miller to argue any outstanding federal issues before him after the state Supreme Court ruling. Last week, the high court refused to overturn results favoring Murkowski and said it found no remaining issues raised by Miller that should prevent the race from being certified. In federal court filings Monday, Miller argued that state officials had violated provisions of the U.S. Constitution in their handling of the election and write-in ballots for Murkowski. But Beistline said Tuesday that claims made by Miller either didn’t rise to constitutional violations or didn’t merit him second-guessing the high court’s determinations. He said that generally speaking, the state Supreme Court “is the final expositor of Alaska law. That must be the case here.” Unofficial results showed Murkowski ahead by 10,328 votes, or 2,169 when ballots challenged by Miller’s camp were excluded. Miller wanted the state held to a strict reading of the law, which calls for write-in ballots to have the ovals filled and either the candidate’s last name or name as it appears on the declaration of candidacy written. Ballots with misspellings, extra words or letters, even stray marks, his team argued, should not count. Miller sought to have the results of the election invalidated and to get a recount. The state, pointing to case law, used discretion in determining voter intent and allowed for ballots with misspellings to be counted toward Murkowski’s tally. The high court determined voter intent is “paramount.” Beistline said Miller’s technical arguments shouldn’t be read as “frivolous, for it’s easy to understand his view” on the reading of the law. But he said it’s just as easy to accept the state Supreme Court’s reading. “What we have before us is a poorly drafted state statute,” he wrote. Beistline also said he could not find the methods used by the state in counting write-in ballots to be “unreasonable.” “The very nature of a ‘write-in’ vote pre-supposes a requirement that someone will have to read the handwriting and determine for whom the vote was cast,” he wrote.
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Judge Lifts Stay on AK Election Results, Clears Way for Murkowski Senate Win
Meanwhile, up in Alaska… Miller Will Not Oppose Certification of U.S. Senate Race Federal Case to Move Forward Fairbanks, Alaska. December 26, 2010 — Joe Miller, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, will not oppose state certification of the U.S. Senate race in Alaska. For the sake of the integrity of the election, Miller will go forward with the federal suit, which was filed last month, but required a final determination by the Alaska state court to proceed further. He will be filing a motion in federal court to stay the post certification election contest timeline until after the federal case has concluded.
The Alaska Supreme Court denied Senate candidate Joe Miller’s claims that the state conducted the midterm election improperly, effectively affirming Lisa Murkowski’s 10,328-vote lead.
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Miller Loses in Alaska Court
