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Current Position: US Senator since 2003
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2022 US Senator
Former Position: State Delegate from 1999 – 2002
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Murkowski is the daughter of former U.S. senator and governor of Alaska Frank Murkowski. Before her appointment to the Senate, she served in the Alaska House of Representatives and was elected majority leader.
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Lisa Murkowski, Alaska’s senior U.S. Senator, is a third generation Alaskan proudly serving as the first Alaskan born senator. Murkowski was born in Ketchikan and raised in towns across the state, including Wrangell, Juneau, Fairbanks, and Anchorage. She is married to Verne Martell and they have two grown sons. Lisa loves spending time in the Alaska outdoors. She’s an avid skier, has hiked on glaciers, enjoys fall duck hunts, and has a pretty impressive King Salmon mounted on her office wall.
Since joining the Senate in 2002, Senator Murkowski has worked tirelessly for Alaskans and earned a reputation in the Senate for her ability to work collaboratively and across the aisle to reach common sense solutions. Murkowski is well-known for her love and dedication to her state, which means putting Alaska first.
A leader on energy and public lands issues, Senator Murkowski recognizes that sound national policy will promote not only job creation and economic growth, but also higher standards of living and greater global stability. She supports the safe and efficient production and use of all forms of domestic energy, as well as research to help develop emerging technologies. Senator Murkowski continues to pursue policies to advance renewable energy, increase energy efficiency, and make America’s energy cleaner, more affordable, and more reliable.
Senator Murkowski has long-advocated for the Arctic as a national priority and continues to push the United States to invest in the infrastructure and assets critical to supporting an Arctic strategy. She is leading the charge to recapitalize and expand America’s fleet of icebreakers and has introduced legislation to raise the nation’s presence in the Arctic through two bills that support responsible research and development as well as giving those who live in the region a greater voice on policy and research.
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Full Name: Lisa A. Murkowski
Gender: Female
Family: Husband: Verne; 2 Children: Nicolas, Matthew
Birth Date: 05/22/1957
Birth Place: Ketchikan, AK
Home City: Anchorage, AK
Religion: Catholic
Source: Graduated, Monroe High School, Fairbanks, AK JD, Willamette College of Law, 1985 BA, Economics, Georgetown University, 1980 Attended, Willamette University, 1975-1978 Senator, United States Senate, 2002-present Former Deputy Whip, United States Senate Candidate, United States Senate, Alaska, 2022 Representative, Alaska State House of Representatives, 1998-2002 Attorney, Commercial Practice, Hoge and Lekisch, 1989-1998 District Court Attorney, State of Alaska, District Court, 1986-1989 Associate, Hertog Rhodes, 1985-1986 Anchorage Fairbanks Juneau Mat-Su Valley Soldotna Ketchikan Washington, D.C. Email: Government page Source: none To learn more, go to the wikipedia section in this post. Source: Open Secrets Agencies; Defense; Energy and Water Development; Homeland Security; Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies) Source: Government page Alaska has more indigenous people as a percentage of our State’s total population than any other State in the Union. Alaska’s fisheries and fishing industry are the very heart of Alaska’s coastal communities and crucial to over 60,000 Alaskans across the state who directly or indirectly base their livelihoods on it. With the loss of seasonal sea ice and increased interest in shipping and energy development in the Arctic, one of Sen. Murkowski’s top priorities is to raise the awareness level of critical Arctic issues among the highest levels of government. In the United States Senate, Lisa Murkowski has earned the reputation of a tough fiscal conservative who will always fight for the Alaska taxpayer. It is said that no people support the military like the people of Alaska. Military families from across the country arrive in Alaska apprehensive about the distance their new posting is from home but quickly warm to Alaska and wonder why they ever lived anywhere else. Education is a priority and must continue to be a priority. It is our responsibility to provide the younger generation with the education they need to succeed in today’s ever challenging world. As the Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Lisa Murkowski is one of the foremost experts on energy policy in the U.S. Senate. Quality healthcare is critical to maintaining the health and well-being of our citizens. This issue is especially critical in Alaska, where health care costs can be up to 70 percent higher than in the lower 48. The bipartisan bill will upgrade and modernize our core infrastructure—making critical investments in roads, bridges, rail, ferries, ports, airports, energy, water systems, and broadband. The landmark legislation also strengthens electric grid resiliency and minerals supply chains (including for clean energy technologies), while reforming the permitting process and providing for wildfire mitigation. In total, it provides $550 billion in new spending over five years, without raising taxes, and will grow America’s economy, create jobs, and push against inflation. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Our veterans exemplify a tradition of service, dedication, and valor that we uphold as Alaskans. With more than 77,000 such men and women, we have a special responsibility for serving the needs of our military veterans. Source: Government page There are many ways for Alaskan residents and those with ties to the state to reach me and my staff to express any questions, comments, or concerns. You may call my Alaskan or Washington D.C. offices, send me a fax, write me a letter, or send me an e-mail using my on-line service below. With the heightened security and extensive mail screening on Capitol Hill, postal services have become extremely slow. Therefore, I urge Alaskan residents to use one of my on-line e-mail forms below. If your inquiry involves casework, or assistance with a federal agency, please visit my ‘Help with a Federal Agency‘ page. I also encourage you to contact the state office closest to your location. All of my office locations can be found here. Regrettably, due to the volume of mail that I receive, I am only able to research and address those messages sent to me from Alaskan residents. If you are not a Alaskan resident, I encourage you to send a message to the Senators from your state of residence. The tradition of Senatorial courtesy calls upon Senators to give their colleagues the opportunity to assist constituents within their home states. You may want to visit http://www.senate.gov/ for a link to the websites of each member of the United States Senate. Lisa Ann Murkowski (/mərˈkaʊski/ mər-KOW-skee; born May 22, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator representing Alaska, having held that seat since 2002. She is the first woman to represent Alaska in the Senate and the Senate’s second-most senior Republican woman, after Susan Collins of Maine. She became dean of Alaska’s congressional delegation upon Representative Don Young‘s death. Murkowski is the daughter of former U.S. senator and governor of Alaska Frank Murkowski. Before her appointment to the Senate, she served in the Alaska House of Representatives and was elected majority leader. She was controversially appointed to the Senate by her father, who resigned his seat in December 2002 to become governor of Alaska. She completed her father’s unexpired Senate term, which ended in January 2005, and became the first Alaskan-born member of Congress. Murkowski ran for and won a full term in 2004. After losing the 2010 Republican primary to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, she ran as a write-in candidate and defeated both Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in the general election. She is the second U.S. senator (after Strom Thurmond in 1954) to be elected by write-in vote. She was elected to a third term in 2016 and a fourth term in 2022, running as a Republican. Murkowski was vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference from 2009 to 2010, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee from 2015 to 2021, and has been vice chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee since 2021. She is often described as one of the Senate’s most moderate Republicans, and a crucial swing vote. According to CQ Roll Call, she voted with President Barack Obama‘s position 72.3% of the time in 2013, one of only two Republicans to do so over 70% of the time. In recent years, she opposed Brett Kavanaugh and supported Ketanji Brown Jackson in their respective nominations to the Supreme Court. On February 13, 2021, she was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial, for which she was censured by the Alaska Republican Party. In 2024, when asked if she intended to remain a Republican, Murkowski replied that she was “independently minded”. Asked whether that meant she might drop her party affiliation, she responded: “I am navigating my way through some very interesting political times. Let’s just leave it at that.”[1] Murkowski was born in Ketchikan in the Territory of Alaska, the daughter of Nancy Rena (née Gore) and Frank Murkowski.[2] Her paternal great-grandfather was of Polish descent, and her mother’s ancestry is Irish and French Canadian.[3] As a child, she and her family moved around the state with her father’s job as a banker. She earned a B.A. degree in economics from Georgetown University in 1980, the same year her father was elected to the U.S. Senate. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority[4] and represented Alaska as the 1980 Cherry Blossom Princess.[5] She received her J.D. degree in 1985 from Willamette University College of Law.[6] Murkowski worked as an attorney in the Anchorage District Court Clerk’s office from 1987 to 1989.[7] From 1989 to 1998, she was an attorney in private practice in Anchorage. She served on the Mayor’s Task Force for the Homeless from 1990 to 1991.[8] In 1998, Murkowski was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives. Her District 18 included northeast Anchorage, Fort Richardson and Elmendorf Air Force Base (now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, or JBER), and suburban parts of Eagle River–Chugiak. In 1999, she introduced legislation establishing a Joint Armed Services Committee. She was reelected in 2000 and, after her district boundaries changed, in 2002. That year she had a conservative primary opponent, Nancy Dahlstrom, who challenged her because Murkowski supported abortion rights and rejected conservative economics. Murkowski prevailed by 56 votes.[9][10] She was named as House Majority Leader for the 2003–04 legislative session. She resigned her House seat before taking office, due to her appointment by her father to the seat he had vacated in the U.S. Senate, upon his stepping down to assume the Alaska governorship.[11] Murkowski sat on the Alaska Commission on Post Secondary Education and chaired both the Labor and Commerce and the Military and Veterans Affairs Committees. After she resigned to join the U.S. Senate, her father appointed Dahlstrom, the District Republican committee’s choice, as her replacement.[10] In December 2002, Murkowski—while a member of the state House—was appointed by her father, Governor Frank Murkowski, to fill his own U.S. Senate seat made vacant when he resigned from the Senate after being elected governor. The appointment caused controversy in Alaska. Many voters disapproved of the nepotism. Her appointment eventually resulted in a referendum that stripped the governor of his power to directly appoint replacement senators.[12] Along with others eligible to be considered, future Alaska governor Sarah Palin interviewed unsuccessfully for the seat.[9] Murkowski has had several close challenges but has never lost an election. She has won four full terms to the Senate; she won 48.6% of the vote in 2004, 39.5% in 2010, 44.4% in 2016 and 53.7% in 2022.[13] Murkowski ran for a full Senate term against former Governor Tony Knowles in the 2004 election after winning a primary challenge by a large margin. She was considered vulnerable due to the controversy over her appointment, and polling showed the race was very close. The centrist Republican Main Street Partnership, which wanted to run TV ads for Murkowski, was told no airtime was left to buy.[14] Near the end of the campaign, senior U.S. Senator Ted Stevens shot ads for Murkowski and claimed that if a Democrat replaced Murkowski, Alaska would likely receive fewer federal dollars.[citation needed] Murkowski defeated Knowles by a narrow margin. Murkowski faced the most difficult election of her career in the August 24, 2010, Republican Party primary election against Joe Miller, a former U.S. magistrate judge[15] supported by former Governor Sarah Palin.[16][17] The initial results showed her trailing Miller, 51–49%, with absentee ballots yet to be tallied.[18] After the first round of absentee ballots were counted on August 31, Murkowski conceded, saying that she did not believe that Miller’s lead could be overcome in the next round of absentee vote counting.[19][20] After the primary, the Murkowski campaign floated the idea of her running as a Libertarian in the general election.[21] But on August 29, 2010, the state Libertarian Party executive board voted not to consider Murkowski as its Senate nominee.[22] On September 17, 2010, Murkowski said that she would mount a write-in campaign for the Senate seat.[23] Her campaign was aided in large part by substantial monetary assistance from Native corporations and PACs, as well as state teachers’ and firefighters’ unions.[24] On November 17, 2010, the Associated Press reported that Murkowski had become only the second Senate candidate (after Strom Thurmond in 1954) to win a write-in campaign, thereby retaining her seat.[25][26] She emerged victorious after a two-week count of write-in ballots showed she had overtaken Miller.[27][28] Miller did not concede.[28] U.S. Federal District Judge Ralph Beistline granted an injunction to stop the certification of the election due to “serious” legal issues and irregularities Miller raised about the hand count of absentee ballots.[29] On December 10, 2010, an Alaskan judge dismissed Miller’s case, clearing the way for Murkowski,[30] but on December 13, Miller appealed the Alaska Superior Court decision of the previous week to the Alaska Supreme Court. The state Supreme Court rejected Miller’s appeal on December 22.[31] On December 28, U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline dismissed Miller’s lawsuit. Governor Sean Parnell certified Murkowski as the winner on December 30.[32] After securing the Republican Party nomination by a wide margin, Murkowski was again reelected to the Senate in 2016. Joe Miller, this time the Libertarian Party nominee, was again the runner-up. The election was unusual in featuring a Libertarian Party nominee who endorsed the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, running against a Republican incumbent who did not.[33] The Libertarian vice-presidential nominee, former Governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld, endorsed Murkowski, citing Miller’s support for Trump and “devoted social conservative” views as incompatible with libertarianism. In 2017, Murkowski filed to run for a fourth term in 2022.[34] Due to her opposition to some of his initiatives and her vote to convict him during his second impeachment trial, former President Donald Trump pledged in June 2020 to campaign against Murkowski, implicitly endorsing a primary challenge in the process.[35][36] Of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump, Murkowski was the only one up for reelection in 2022. After the second impeachment trial, Alaska’s GOP had censured her and demanded her resignation.[36] Despite Trump’s pledge, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell signaled Republican senators’ commitment to back Murkowski’s 2022 campaign.[37] On June 18, 2021, Trump endorsed former Alaska Department of Administration commissioner Kelly Tshibaka for the Senate in 2022, calling her “MAGA all the way”.[38] Murkowski later called Tshibaka “apparently…someone with a pulse”,[39] referencing Trump’s previous statement that “if [any 2022 Murkowski challenger has] a pulse, [he is] with [them]”.[40] On July 10, 2021, the Alaska Republican Party endorsed Tshibaka.[41] Murkowski won reelection by beating Tshibaka in ranked-choice voting.[42] Murkowski’s votes amounted to 53.7% after the ranked-choice tabulation.[43] Murkowski is considered a moderate Republican.[44][45] Since she was reelected in 2010, some have deemed her voting record “more moderate” than that of her previous years in the Senate.[46] In 2013, the National Journal gave Murkowski a composite score of 56% conservative and 45% liberal[47] and ranked her the 56th most liberal and 44th most conservative member of the Senate.[48] According to GovTrack, Murkowski is the second most liberal Republican senator and, as of 2017, is placed by GovTrack’s analysis to the left of all Republicans except Susan Collins, and to the left of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin.[49] The New York Times arranged Republican senators by ideology and also ranked Murkowski the second most liberal Republican.[50][51] According to FiveThirtyEight, which tracks congressional votes, she voted with Trump’s position approximately 72.6% of the time as of January 2021.[52] According to FiveThirtyEight, as of January 2023, Murkowski had voted with Biden’s position about 67% of the time.[53] According to CQ Roll Call, Murkowski voted with President Barack Obama‘s position 72.3% of the time in 2013, one of only two Republicans voting for his positions over 70% of the time.[54] According to the American Conservative Union’s Center for Legislative Accountability, Murkowski has a lifetime conservative score of 56.72.[55] The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gave her a score of 10% in 2019.[56] In 2018, she voted “present” on the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States as a favor to Senator Steve Daines, who was unable to attend the vote because his daughter’s wedding took place that day.[57] In 2020, she voted against procedural motions to accelerate Amy Coney Barrett‘s confirmation to that court, though she later voted to confirm Barrett.[58] On April 7, 2022, she voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, with only two other Republicans joining her: Mitt Romney and Susan Collins.[59] In a March 2019 op-ed for The Washington Post, Murkowski and Joe Manchin wrote that climate change debate in Congress was depicted as “an issue with just two sides—those who support drastic, unattainable measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, and those who want to do nothing” and affirmed their support for “adopting reasonable policies that maintain that edge, build on and accelerate current efforts, and ensure a robust innovation ecosystem.”[60] During the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Murkowski called Trump’s actions “shameful and wrong, but said “she cannot vote to convict” Trump and that his personal interests did not take precedence over those of the nation. She joined almost all Senate Republicans in voting to acquit Trump on both articles.[61] In December 2020, during his lame-duck period, Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.[62] The veto left new Coast Guard cutters that were scheduled to be homeported in Alaska without port facilities to maintain them.[62] Murkowski issued a press release that said, in part, “It’s incredible that the President chose to veto the annual National Defense Authorization Act, particularly because his reason for doing so is an issue not related to national defense.”[62] After Trump supporters attacked the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, Murkowski said Trump should resign for inciting the insurrection. With this call for his resignation, she became the first Republican in the Senate to say that Trump should leave office before the inauguration of Joe Biden. When asked whether she would remain a Republican, she replied, “if the Republican Party has become nothing more than the party of Trump, I sincerely question whether this is the party for me”,[63] but added, “I have absolutely no desire to move over to the Democratic side of the aisle. I can’t be somebody that I’m not.”[64] On May 27, 2021, along with five other Republicans and all present Democrats, Murkowski voted to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the Capitol attack. The vote failed for lack of 60 required “yes” votes.[65] She was one of seven Republican senators to vote on February 13, 2021, to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial. That vote failed for lack of a two-thirds majority.[66] Murkowski, along with all other Senate and House Republicans, voted against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.[67] On September 30, 2021, she was among the 15 Senate Republicans to vote with all Democrats and both Independents for a temporary spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.[68][69] On October 7, 2021, Murkowski voted with 10 other Republicans and all members of the Democratic caucus to break the filibuster of raising the debt ceiling.[70][71] However, she voted with all Republicans against the bill to raise the debt ceiling.[72] On February 5, 2022, Murkowski joined Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson in condemning the Republican National Committee‘s censure of Representatives Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for supporting and participating in the Select Committee of the U.S. House that was tasked with investigating the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[73] The RNC contended that the Capitol riot was “legitimate political discourse.”[73] During her 2022 reelection campaign, Murkowski was supported by Democratic colleagues, including Jeanne Shaheen, and Independent Senator Angus King.[74] Murkowski supports the Equal Rights Amendment.[75] As of 2023, Murkowski supports ConocoPhillips’s controversial Willow oil drilling project on North Slope Borough, Alaska.[76] Murkowski is married to Verne Martell.[93] They have two sons, Nicolas and Matthew.[94] Murkowski is Roman Catholic.[95] As of 2018, according to OpenSecrets.org, Murkowski’s net worth was more than $1.4 million.[96] In July 2007, Murkowski said she would sell back land she bought from Anchorage businessman Bob Penney, a day after a Washington watchdog group filed a Senate ethics complaint against her alleging that Penney sold the property well below market value.[97] The Anchorage Daily News wrote, “The transaction amounted to an illegal gift worth between $70,000 and $170,000, depending on how the property was valued, according to the complaint by the National Legal and Policy Center.”[97] According to the Associated Press, Murkowski bought the land from two developers tied to the Ted Stevens probe.[98] In 2008, Murkowski amended her Senate financial disclosures for 2004 through 2006, adding income of $60,000 per year from the sale of a property in 2003, and more than $40,000 a year from the sale of her “Alaska Pasta Company” in 2005.[99] ▌ Tuberville (R) ▌ Britt (R) ▌ Sullivan (R) ▌ Kelly (D) ▌ Cotton (R) ▌ Butler (D) ▌ Hickenlooper (D) ▌ Blumenthal (D) ▌ Murphy (D) ▌ Coons (D) ▌ R. 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Party Candidate Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski 830 65.6% Republican Mike Miller 436 34.4% Total votes 1,266 100% Party Candidate Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski 2,676 96.5% Write-ins 96 3.5% Total votes 2,772 100% Party Candidate Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski (incumbent) 368 100% Total votes 368 100% Party Candidate Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski (incumbent) 3,828 96.40% Write-ins 145 3.6% Total votes 3,973 100% Party Candidate Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski 486 53.1% Republican Nancy A. Dahlstrom 429 46.9% Total votes 915 100% Party Candidate Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski 2,231 93.3% Write-ins 161 6.7% Total votes 2,392 100% Party Candidate Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski (incumbent) 45,710 58.1% Republican Mike Miller 29,313 37.3% Republican Wev Shea 2,857 3.6% Republican Jim Dore 748 0.9% Total votes 78,628 100% Party Candidate Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski (incumbent) 149,446 48.62% Democratic Tony Knowles 139,878 45.51% Independent Marc J. Millican 8,857 2.88% Independence Jerry Sanders 3,765 1.22% Green Jim Sykes 3,039 0.99% Libertarian Scott A. Kohlhaas 1,237 0.40% Independent Ted Gianoutsos 726 0.24% Total votes 306,948 100% Party Candidate Votes % Republican Joe Miller 55,878 50.91% Republican Lisa Murkowski (incumbent) 53,872 49.09% Total votes 109,750 100% Party Candidate Votes % Write-In Lisa Murkowski (incumbent) 101,091 39.49% Republican Joe Miller 90,839 35.49% Democratic Scott McAdams 60,045 23.46% Libertarian David Haase 1,459 0.57% Independent Timothy Carter 927 0.36% Independent Ted Gianoutsos 458 0.18% Write-In Other write-in votes 1,143 0.44% Invalid or blank votes 2,784 1.08% Total votes 258,746 100% Turnout 52.3% Party Candidate Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski 39,545 71.52% Republican Bob Lochner 8,480 15.34% Republican Paul Kendall 4,272 7.73% Republican Thomas Lamb 2,996 5.42% Total votes 55,293 100% Party Candidate Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski (incumbent) 138,149 44.36% Libertarian Joe Miller 90,825 29.16% Independent Margaret Stock 41,194 13.23% Democratic Ray Metcalfe 36,200 11.62% Independent Breck A. Carter 2,609 0.84% Independent Ted Gianoutsos 1,758 0.56% Write-In Write-in votes 706 0.23% Invalid or blank votes 5,363 1.69% Total votes 316,804 100% Turnout 59.9% Party Candidate First Choice Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Votes % Transfer Votes % Transfer Votes % Transfer Votes % Republican Lisa Murkowski (incumbent) 113,495 43.37% +623 114,118 43.39% +1,641 115,759 44.49% +20,571 136,330 53.70% Republican Kelly Tshibaka 111,480 42.60% +621 112,101 42.62% +3,209 115,310 44.32% +2,224 117,534 46.30% Democratic Pat Chesbro 27,145 10.37% +1,088 28,233 10.73% +901 29,134 11.20% −29,134 Eliminated Republican Buzz Kelley (withdrew)[a] 7,557 2.89% +1,018 8,575 3.26% −8,575 Eliminated Write-in 2,028 0.77% -2,028 Eliminated Total votes 261,705 263,027 260,203 253,864 Blank or inactive ballots 3,770 +2,824 6,594 +6,339 12,933 Republican hold Personal life
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Murkowski, who graduated in 1985 from Willamette University’s College of Law in Oregon, wasn’t admitted to the Alaska Bar until November 1987. She flunked the exam in July 1985, February 1986, July 1986 and again in February 1987. She passed on her fifth try in July 1987.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, whose family has held a decades-long grip on one of the state’s two Senate seats, was in a surprisingly tight race Wednesday morning against an insurgent candidate, a Tea Party favorite who received the backing of Sarah Palin.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski late Tuesday conceded the Republican primary election to Joe Miller, the Tea-Party backed challenger who maintained his Election Day lead after thousands of additional absentee and other ballots were counted through the day.
The state Libertarian Party told the Anchorage Daily News that it was open to the possibility of nominating Murkowski as a third-party candidate, a notion that her campaign is not embracing but has not ruled out.
Murkowski faces tough odds with her write-in candidacy. She has lost support from members within the Republican establishment, who are backing the Republican nominee, Joe Miller.
Sitka was selected as a homeport for one of the six vessels. And while the actual ship itself doesn’t appear in jeopardy, there might not be anyplace to put it, if the veto stands.
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