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Eric Hafner's campaign announcement from prison

... that Eric Hafner (campaign announcement pictured) ran for the 2024 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska while serving 20 years in US Federal Prison in New York state?

Source: https://www.krbd.org/2024/09/03/eric-hafner-advances-to-the-ak-us-house-ballot-from-federal-prison/ "Campaigning for statewide elected office in Alaska can be difficult and expensive, but Hafner faces extra hurdles. For one thing, he’s never been to the state. For another, Hafner is currently serving a decades-long sentence in a medium-security federal prison near Otisville, New York."

ALT1: ... that Carol and Eric Hafner ran for five United States House of Representatives seats from states they didn't live in, and mostly hadn't visited? Source: https://www.adn.com/politics/2024/09/12/alaska-supreme-court-rules-that-incarcerated-candidate-can-appear-on-us-house-ballot/ "Eric Hafner ... is running as a Democrat for Alaska’s U.S. House seat. He previously ran for U.S. House in Oregon as a Democrat and in Hawaii as a Republican. ... Carol Hafner also ran for Alaska’s U.S. House seat in 2018, and for Wyoming’s U.S. House seat in 2020." The "mostly hadn't visited" needs to be 4 links (no citation for Hawaii): Eric/Oregon https://www.portlandtribune.com/news/candidate-challenges-blumenauer-from-afar-3-000-miles-away/article_bf0df592-09c3-5485-8225-7e8d22fbdb97.html; Eric/Alaska https://www.krbd.org/2024/09/03/eric-hafner-advances-to-the-ak-us-house-ballot-from-federal-prison/; Carol/Alaska https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-alaska-carol-hafner-house-20180718-story.html; Carol/Wyoming https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/elections/out-of-state-democrat-announces-u-s-house-bid-in-wyoming/article_e24f80a3-ef54-5bf2-b982-35fbea047361.html (it does say she planned to visit, but even if she later did, it would mean 3/5 races for states they never visited)
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Comment: The image isn't great as an image. But as a photocopy of a prison ID for a campaign announcement - it's priceless!

Moved to mainspace by GRuban (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 45 past nominations.

GRuban (talk) 16:06, 26 November 2024 (UTC).