GOP officials in at least five Alaska state House districts have approved resolutions criticizing the senator.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski , R- Alaska , answers questions from news media on Tuesday at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. censuring U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski , and many of those officials said they believe the state party also will consider a resolution denouncing her.The districts’ actions set up a collision course with the state Republican Party organization, where chairman Glenn Clary has supported a “big tent” approach to party membership.
“I stand my ground. If I had to take that vote again, I would vote to uphold my oath of office. And, if the party is to censure me because they felt that I needed to support the party, they can make that statement, but I will make the statement again that my obligation is to support the Constitution that I have pledged to uphold, and I will do that, even if it means I have to oppose the direction of my state party.
Republicans in District 8, covering Big Lake, and District 9, covering Valdez, Delta Junction and the eastern Matanuska-Susitna Borough, have also approved resolutions of censure.Murkowski is up for reelection in 2022. A censure would normally be bad news for a candidate’s chances in the statewide primary, but Alaskans last year approvedMurkowski no longer has to pass through a Republican primary election like the one she lost in 2010.
Ballot Measure 2′s principal author, a former Murkowski campaigner, has denied that the measure was intended to benefit her. “I wish, as a party chair, that Republicans would stop demonizing and categorizing each another and support each other … you may not vote for somebody, but that doesn’t mean that you have to demonize somebody and categorize somebody in this category called RINO,” Clary said, referring to the term “Republican In Name Only.”
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