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[AK-AL] Cissna plans to run for Congress against Young
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| Last Edited | RBH Apr 13, 2012 02:06am |
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| News Date | Thursday, April 12, 2012 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Rep. Don Young picked up an opponent Wednesday when Rep. Sharon Cissna, a Democratic legislator from Anchorage, announced at a sparsely attended news conference that she was running for Congress.
Young, a Republican from Fort Yukon, has served 19 full terms as Alaska's sole Congressman and has steamrolled over most of his opponents over the years. Cissna said she wasn't volunteering to be this year's sacrificial lamb.
"I'm not running against anyone in the primary or in the general," Cissna said "I'm running for Alaska."
It seemed from her remarks, however, that she was running against the Transportation Security Administration, which attempted to give her a pat-down search last year at the Seattle airport when she was returning to Juneau. Cissna, a breast cancer survivor who has had a mastectomy, refused the search and ended up taking four days to get back to Juneau by way of ferry, rental car, small plane and taxi. |
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