The Alaska Republican Party on Saturday endorsed Jared Goecker for Senate, to represent Eagle River. This was a big statement, as there was no endorsement made for Republican Sen. Kelly Merrick, the incumbent. Goecker was also endorsed previously by District 23 and District 24 Republicans. He has the endorsement of Gov. Mike Dunleavy as well.
Merrick, although she is a Republican, is considered in poor standing with Republicans because she has helped put Democrats in charge in the Senate. She has won in the past with the help of Democrats. She does have the endorsement of half of her district — House District 24, she told Must Read Alaska, but it’s going to be a challenge for her to win, since Democrat Lee Hammermeister is in the race to take votes from Merrick’s liberal voters.
Rep. Jamie Allard was also endorsed for House District 23, by the entire party and has the endorsement of her district and five Republican women’s clubs.
Also endorsed on Saturday was Nick Begich for Congress. Nick Begich also hails from Eagle River.
I think it was a typo where the article says “Merrick, although she is a Democrat,” as she masquerades as a Republican. Or maybe it was rightly on purpose that the story went that way!
Do endorsements matter? Endorsements are like the story of the new kid on the block. They may be unknown but the endorsement is the bully manner of dealing with a new neighbor. Its better to find out for yourself, vote your choice rather than vote because someone else says you should. I stood in line to vote one year with a person in front of me asking if I was going to vote my choice but what the union said I should. I told him that I vote my choice and a union doesn’t own my right to vote my choice. Endorsements are like that too.
“ but it’s going to be a challenge for her to win, since Democrat Lee Hammermeister is in the race to take votes from Merrick’s liberal voters.”
——accept in ranking choice, those democrats get to choose Merrick as their 2nd. (Voting twice is what democrats do best) so Merrick has a good chance of winning with the liberal/dumb republican vote + the democrat vote.
Merrick said she has half of the support of Chugiak/Eagle River….. Merrick lies again, something Merrick she is good at. The Great Experiment of —- one of the biggest Democrats in the State of Alaska, while pretending to be a Republican has failed. The truth of this fake person must be brought to the light of day. Thank you to the two candidates who dropped out of the race and endorsed Jared. Merrick has deceived the good people of Chugiak/Eagle River, time to send her back to her liberal husband.
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