AK-Sen: Challenger Spending Big Bucks in Primary Race Against Stevens

Here’s some fun news:

Attorney Vic Vickers said Monday that he has placed a $410,000 statewide network ad buy blasting Stevens that will start Wednesday and run through the Aug. 26 primary.

“I bought everything that was available,” Vickers said in a phone interview.

The first of five advertisements, according to Vickers, shows him standing in front of Stevens’ Girdwood home, which was raided by the FBI last year.

“I am Vic Vickers and I am running against Ted Stevens to stop corruption,” he says in the spot. “The FBI and the IRS raided his home as part of a criminal investigation.”

Vickers, a complete unknown who filed for the race “30 minutes before the deadline in June”, is also planning on spending an additional $100,000 on radio ads in the coming weeks.

Vickers is one of five candidates challenging Stevens in the Republican primary. The field also includes ex-state Rep. Dave Cuddy, a wealthy businessman who previously challenged Stevens for the GOP nomination in 1996. While I don’t expect Stevens to lose his primary, this one should be fun to watch.

Don’t you just love it when Republicans do the dirty work for us?

Primary: August 26th

13 thoughts on “AK-Sen: Challenger Spending Big Bucks in Primary Race Against Stevens”

  1. With all the GOP challengers spending lots of money attacking Stevens and the fact that Stevens will probably have to spend a lot of his money just to survive the primary, the DSCC might not need to spend any money because this race is looking to become ahead of CO and NH as a pick up opportunity.  

    When is the AK GOP primary? Is it early August or what?

  2. Do primaries in AK require 50% or are there no runoffs?  If there is no 50% requirement Stevens should thankfully win the primary.

  3. While this would take away our ability to run against a corrupt politician, we’ve got Mark Begich and they have a bunch of no names.  It seems as if in this case, a primary loss would help us.  

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