Sen. Lisa Murkowski is being targeted by Democrats. Alaska Democrats and voters who fit the liberal modeling are getting text messages urging them to call Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s office and pressure her to vote against the nomination of Kash Patel as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
The text message comes from a burn phone that is not traceable. It tells the recipient that Patel will “focus on partisan politics and let Fentanyl traffickers run wild.”
The group has been identified by Must Read Alaska sleuths as “Building America,” a Democrat political action committee of out Los Angeles, Calif. that supported Kamala Harris for president and is part of a network of dark money organizations.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski is considered a hold-out vote in the Senate Republican majority, and she has not indicated her decision on most of the nominees that require confirmation by the Senate. But she’s likely to be a no vote on Patel, and that’s what the Democrats want to make sure happens, with the help of public pressure. These kinds of text campaigns from Democrats usually revolve around abortion issues, not presidential appointments and certainly it’s new for Democrats to be concerned about fentanyl.
Patel has received a warm response from conservative Republicans, including Sen. Dan Sullivan, who said he had a good introductory meeting with him, as Patel makes the rounds to meet the senators who will vote on him.
Patel “understands the importance of restoring public trust at the FBI. After our conversation today, it’s clear to me that his experience at the NSC, the DNI, and the Pentagon, and as a public defender and DOJ prosecutor make him more than qualified to lead this critically important law enforcement agency. I look forward to working with Kash and the rest of the Trump administration to ensure we rein in violent crime, including in Alaska where the drug cartel presence, fentanyl, and domestic violence remain serious issues,” Sullivan said after meeting with Patel.
The nominee can only afford to lose three votes and it’s unclear if Murkowski and Maine Sen. Susan Collins will be two of them. Murkowski and Collins anchor the far left of the Republican caucus of the Senate.
Well, I don’t have a hold out vote for Lisa. I’m definitely not voting for her again.
Hopefully, we can get together and get rid of this cancer from Alaska.
The murkowski name is nothing that you want to be happy about
AMEN, to that!
Mark, it doesn’t matter if you don’t vote for her again. She’s had 22-yrs in office to do damage and she has until 2028 to do a lot more.
That message is exactly what the FBI has been doing the last 4 years. Are they saying Patel will be status quo? I don’t think so. Still, Murkowski will do as told.
Four years?
Rest in peace Senator Ted Stevens.
What is the reward for being a contrarian on virtually every issue that comes before her for a vote? The FBI is a partisan mess. The outgoing administration has punished Alaska for four years. I think we would be better served if our small congressional delegation pulled together and supported the incoming administration on appointments and relatively minor issues so that when there are major issues impacting Alaska, all three members will have the President’s ear.
Sullivan sounds clueless as usual, the FBI hasn’t been focused on crime for years, since they have been redirected to focus on targeting and suppressing political opponents of the permanent government.
It will be interesting to see if the individuals comprising Trumps’ administration will root out the corruption, get rid of any number of useless federal agencies and bring to justice those in power who abused their authority in dismantling the lawful governance of the country.
Princess Lisa is very aware of the potential threat to her and her puppet masters if Patel is installed as Director and is serious to root out corruption. Unless she is assured it will be business as usual in DC, assume she is a solid no.
I received that same text message this morning, and wondered what nefarious group was behind it. It’s odd that the message came to me, because my political philosophy is in the same mold at Pat Buchanan’s.
In this case, I will not be phoning the honorable Senator Murkowski’s office. She marches to the beat of her own tin drum. And she has not yet followed my recent advice to her by letter, which is to resign from the Senate forthwith.
I got that text yesterday.. Apparently they spam text conservatives as well, what a bunch of dum dums. And then there’s she who shall not be named, God himself would have to intervene for her vote for Kash. How o’l lurki is still a senator here in AK is so crazy it’s almost unbelievable!
Dems are pressuring Lisa because they know she’s their girl. No one really believes that she’ll be able to get over her TDS long enough to vote for any of Trump’s cabinet choices, do they? Lisa need to be gone two election cycles ago. She needs to be Cheneyed. The sooner the better.
That’s funny that Democraps think we give a rats hinny about Murkowski
It would be a colossal political mistake if Lisa votes against Trump’s nominees. Clearly, she’s not the brightest – sharpest tool but I bet she’s leveraging her vote in-favor for something she wants personally, something that benefits her and/or family, something that would feed her narcissism.
I initially was skeptical of this appointment. Research a bit, I learned that Mr. Patel is a former defense attorney and prosecutor. He is most certainly not a careerist Washington, DC bureaucrat. The FBI is very deeply politicized and run by Deep State operatives that constantly advance and cover for one another. The agency does not currently serve Americans. Rather, it exists to serve the interests of the Deep State actors that run it. Mr. Patel has seen a bunch of this behavior and is the right person to clean things up. He should be confirmed. Those that oppose his confirmation are trying to shield the careerists and Deep State reptiles from accountability.
Of course she’ll vote no. Was it ever in doubt?
It’s very much a democrat thing for the privileged white nepo baby to vote against the minority man.
Tale as old as liberal time.
If the democrats don’t want it, IT must be the right thing to do!
I bet “greg” does not want Patel to be confirmed!
Hilarious, isn’t it? Frightened politicians desperately trying to manipulate low information constituents into pressuring a low IQ senator into voting against a nominee most of them never heard of until now. If a senator is swayed by the uninformed or, rather, misinformed opinions of our average public school educated citizen then that senator completely misunderstands how representative government works. Governance by public outcry isn’t how it works.
PJ, you understand very well. Those you speak of do not. Consequently, the situation you discuss will have a poor outcome.
Not to worry, Murkowski will need no encouragement to vote no on Patel …
Start sharing links to “Government Gangsters” if you want to know more about Kash…movie and the book
‘https://stream.warroom.film/content/government-gangsters
I say pivot to Ramaswamy’s Plan B. We only need one federal law enforcement agency. Dismantle and eliminate the FBI entirely. Roll it’s good employees into the US Marshal Service. Senate confirmation is unnecessary for an FBI director that doesn’t exist. Then, just do what the Dems do; make Patel a Whitehouse advisor in constant review of the US Marshal Service.
Nancy and I have already invited Kash to our Wrangell home for a short vacation. He will make a fantastic FBI Director. And we want him to investigate why Lisa keeps borrowing money from us and never pays us back. We didn’t think Lisa would turn out to be such a rotten Democrat. Even a normal Democrat has some scruples.