Idaho looks good. Our sponsor, Sen. Marv Hagedorn from Meridian is on the case. Leadership on board. He’s going with the Delegate Limitation Act. I think most states will. Gives more assurance to people worried about a runaway.
Birchers and Eagle Forum not a force. Lots of Tea Party, and they’re the key. I’ll do my bit. Marv’s setting me up with Nate Shellman, KBOI 670 and Kevin Miller KCI 580. They’ll have a lot of Tea Party listeners, who I can hopefully interact with. In Idaho, they’re the guys. Lauren Enns of IAmAmerican will talk to Marv about doing an event in Idaho. I saw, on the internet, a local TV station up there do a piece on Marv and Article V. Very good stuff.
Got rebuffed in Kentucky, but no big deal. All I need are a couple college kids who want to play a little politics. I should be able to find them. Reached out on Facebook to Alissa(?) Scott, the western director of the College Young Republicans. If she likes me she’ll help me out.
What I want to do in Kentucky is what I did in Alaska in 1986. Wally Hickel and State Senator Arliss Sturgulewski were in the Republican primary for Governor. Former Governor Jay Hammond couldn’t stand Hickel and he liked Sturgulewski, so his political guy, Bob Clarke, decided to make a hit on Hickel. One of Bob’s rules was that his name never be mentioned. I guess because it would be a link to Hammond.
So naturally he called me. We were best buddies. I lived with Bob most of my eight years of being in session in Juneau. He drank Scotch and I drank beer. We really got along. And I agreed with Hammond. I was running unopposed for reelection to the State House, so I had the time.
Bob got ahold of this college kid, John Ericson, or something like that, and he signed the papers to form Bipartisan Alaskans Against Hickel (B.A.A.H). Like the sheep. I set up the P. O. Box and the bank, Bob got the money from somewhere, and we had ourselves an organization!
We ran some pretty vicious attack ads on Hickel. Nothing personal, but we made him look real bad. It made a big stink, but the only name the press could associate it with was the kid, and he was out of state. They looked all over for this kid. It was a big deal.
Finally the heat got too strong and we got the kid back in town for a press conference. We prepped him quite a bit, and he was flawless. But I had to be there with him, in public. I’m the House Minority Leader, and I figured these people in the media knew what was going on. They knew how I felt about Hickel. But none of them liked the son of a bitch either, so they all let it slide.
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