FAR NORTH DEMS GETTING UPPITY

Mad props to Eric Croft...!

"The group that wants to place an initiative on the November 2004 ballot requiring a special election for vacancies in the U.S. Senate has collected 36,000 signatures in two months. Trust the People says only about 24,000 of those signatures need to be verified to place the issue on the ballot.

"Trust the People is made up of three democrats in the state house. It was formed after Governor Frank Murkowski appointed his daughter Lisa to his seat in the senate. 'I think people just instinctively knew that this was the difference between an appointment, somebody telling them who's going to be their representative or senator, and an election,' says Democratic Representative Eric Croft."

My Wall Street political service says "only in Alaska is a Republican [Senate candidate] in real trouble."

[My friend Peggy Wilcox works for Eric - I met him briefly while leaving a Post-It of Greeting -PWP]