Posted on Mon, May. 24, 2004
Alaska Democrats split between Kerry, Kucinich
CATHY BROWN
Associated Press
JUNEAU, Alaska - Close to half of Alaska's elected delegates to the Democratic National Convention will cast their votes for Dennis Kucinich - the only candidate to visit the state and a man with virtually no chance of winning the nomination.
The rest of the elected delegates, a little more than half, are pledged to support the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.
Alaska Democrats send 18 delegates and four nonvoting alternates to the convention. That's just a sliver of the 5,000 delegates and alternates from around the country who will gather at the July 26-29 convention in Boston, according to the Democratic National Convention Committee.
Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, gained little support among Democrats elsewhere in the country. Bridget Gallagher, executive director of the Alaska Democratic Party, said one reason Alaskans looked more favorably upon him is simply because he showed up.
"He did make an effort to visit here," Gallagher said Monday, noting the candidate made stops in Juneau and Fairbanks right before the March caucuses.
No other candidate for the nomination visited Alaska, which has only three electoral votes and a history of voting Republican in presidential elections.
State Rep. Beth Kerttula, D-Juneau, is among the Alaska delegates pledged to support Kucinich at the national convention. She favored Howard Dean before he dropped out of the race, but said Kucinich's positions on state's rights and individual liberties strike a chord for Alaskans.
"He's just a terrific person and has terrific ideals," Kerttula said...(Full Story)
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