Valley Republican Women of Alaska on Saturday passed a resolution condemning Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski for several offenses, including her public opposition to President Donald Trump and his plan to Make America Great Again, and her failure to support the Alaska Republican Party platform.
The resolution calls out Murkowski for not voting to confirm Pete Hegseth for secretary of the Department of Defense, and her active support for ranked-choice voting, as well as her disregard for the expressed values, priorities, and will of the Alaska Republican Party.
In the resolution, the women’s club calls for the immediate sanctioning of Murkowski by the party as a whole. The party will have to take up the request at its Feb. 22 State Central Committee meeting in Juneau.
In addition, the women’s club demands that Murkowski consider changing her party affiliation so the public will be able to distinguish her from the rest of the Republicans.
Murkowski has been sanctioned by the party as a whole in the past, specifically for bucking the party she says she is a member of.
She was sanctioned by the party in 2021, after she voted to impeach Donald Trump even after he was no longer in office. On March 16, 2021, the Alaska Republican Party voted to censure Murkowski and announced that it would recruit a Republican challenger in the 2022 election cycle. But that cycle contained the special feature that Murkowski’s dark-money network had rigged — ranked-choice voting. The method of gaming the election system helped her win the jungle primary with the help of the Democrats.
In 2010, she was sanctioned for running a write-in campaign against the Republican nominee, Joe Miller.
While those sanctions expired, Murkowski is not a welcomed guest at Republican events and has not been invited to speak at conventions that the party has held. She’s not only anti-Trump, she is misaligned with the party itself.
Earlier this week, the chairwoman of the Alaska Republican Party issued a pointed letter asking the Alaska senators to vote to confirm Hegseth. It was aimed at Murkowski, since Sen. Dan Sullivan had already stated he would be a yes vote.
Read the entire resolution from the Valley Republican Women of Alaska here:
