Alaska Supreme Court rules that incarcerated ... - Anchorage Daily News
WEBSep 13, 2024 · The Alaska Democratic Party had sought to remove from the ballot the name of Eric Hafner, who is running as a Democrat in Alaska while serving a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to...
Federal inmate running for U.S. House seat speaks with Alaska’s News …
WEBSep 10, 2024 · “Eric Hafner is not an Alaska resident,” Beecher confirmed in a statement to Alaska’s News Source. “The U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, Clause 2 allows that a candidate for Congress does not have to be a resident of the state for which they are running for a U.S. congressional seat, but they must become a resident once elected.
Alaska Supreme Court keeps federal prisoner on ... - Alaska's News …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Superior Court Judge Ian Wheeles’s ruling on Tuesday allowed Eric Hafner — who is running as a Democrat and serving a 20-year sentence in a New York federal prison for threatening elected officials in ... Hafner told Alaska’s News Source said the lawsuit was “absolutely frivolous” from the beginning and the appeal “even more ...
Alaska Democrats ask judge to remove imprisoned out-of-state …
WEBSep 5, 2024 · Eric Hafner is serving a 20-year sentence in a New York federal prison. Alaska Democrats argue that should disqualify him from the ballot.
Alaska U.S. House election is complicated by incarcerated …
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The candidate, Eric Hafner, is running as a Democrat in an effort to unseat Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. In Alaska’s election system, four congressional candidates, regardless of party, appear...
He's in a New York prison. Yet courts let him stay on a U.S. House ...
WEBSep 11, 2024 · The candidate, Eric Hafner, is running as a Democrat in an effort to unseat Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. ... Hafner finished a distant sixth place in the state’s August primary, with just 0.4% of the vote (467 votes). But two Republican candidates who received more votes dropped out of the race, landing Hafner on the general election ballot ...
Alaska Supreme Court considers legal challenge to imprisoned out …
WEBSep 12, 2024 · DONATE: SUPPORT NEWS YOU TRUST. The Alaska Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday morning in a lawsuit seeking to remove Eric Hafner, an imprisoned, out-of-state Democrat, from the state ...
Judge allows a man serving a 20-year prison ... - Associated Press News
WEBSep 11, 2024 · State Superior Court Judge Ian Wheeles in Anchorage rejected a request by the Alaska Democratic Party to remove Eric Hafner from the November ballot. Hafner, who has no apparent ties to Alaska, pleaded guilty in 2022 to charges of making threats against police officers, judges and others in New Jersey.
A man serving a 20-year sentence in New York gets on the ballot …
WEBSep 10, 2024 · Eric Hafner was convicted in 2022 of threatening to kill judges, police officers and others and sentenced to serve 20 years in federal prison. He originally came in sixth in Alaska’s open primary, which allows only the top four vote-getters to advance to the general election.
Eric Hafner advances to the AK US House ballot from federal prison
WEBSep 3, 2024 · Republicans Nancy Dahlstrom and Matthew Salisbury withdrew before Monday’s deadline, allowing fifth-place candidate John Wayne Howe of the Alaskan Independence Party and sixth-place Democrat Eric Hafner to advance to November’s contest. Each received less than 1% of the vote.
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