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“Maybe it’s time to reconsider Take Your Daughter to Work Day. Frank Murkowski, Alaska’s former senator and governor, took little Lisa to work in 2002, and now she refuses to go home. Shortly after taking office as governor, Mr. Murkowski appointed Miss Murkowski to the Senate seat he had just vacated. She was elected in her own right in 2004, but this year Alaska Republicans decided it was time for a new direction and handed her a primary defeat. Well, listen up, Alaska voters: You didn’t put Miss Murkowski in the Senate, and she’ll be damned if she’s going to let you throw her out. On Friday she announced that she intends to run a write-in candidacy. (If you want to write her in, her name is spelled M-I-L-L-E-R.)” –Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto
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