Murkowski announces Christmas essay contest for fourth-grade Alaskans

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced an essay contest for fourth graders in Alaska to celebrate the 2024 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, which comes from Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.

The Tongass National Forest is where the Democratic Administration of federal government has made logging uneconomical since the Clinton White House, and now the Biden White House.

“The time-honored tradition of the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is something I look forward to every holiday season, particularly when it comes from Alaska,” said Sen. Murkowski. “I look forward to selecting one young Alaskan to flip the switch and turn on the lights for the national Christmas tree when it arrives from the Tongass National Forest and graces the west lawn of the Capitol.”

Fourth grade students are invited to write no more than 250 words on what they would like the country to know about Alaska’s Christmas tree this year, and why it is so special, she said. Sen. Murkowski will select one student’s submission, and invite them and their family on an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, DC in early December to play an integral role in the tree-lighting ceremony alongside members of Congress and the public, as well as enjoy Christmas festivities throughout the District. Read Anna DeVolld’s winning submission from 2015 here.

Additional information for the essay contest:

  • Handwritten
  • No more than 250 words
  • Submission must include parent or guardian contact information, and can be scanned and emailed to: [email protected], or mailed to Anchorage office at: 510 L St. Suite 600, Anchorage, AK, 99501
  • Submissions must be received, or postmarked by, Oct. 4, 2024.

29 COMMENTS

  1. Can you imagine going to face GOD & mocking all the way, MA’AM you are Alaskas biggest embarrassment ever ever please please for the 4 graders resign immediately. The hour is getting late in the game oath breakers repent render to GOD what is his. INTEGRITY TO THE PEOPLE resign resign resign. That is what we the people want no more fake. MAGA MA’AM

    • Lisa’s bossman Joe prefers that age as they are usually unaware they are being sniffed out when Lisa brings the children to his office for “gifts”.

  2. I object to this mixing of government & religion.
    Where’s the ACLU when you need them?
    Oh … that’s right, she’s one of their own.
    Never mind.

  3. Man o man Lisa how’s ’bout doing more to get the US out of Ukraine, the WHO out of the US, the US out of Israel’s back pocket and support Alaskan sovereignty and Alaskan jobs!

    • Oh, you’re one of those surrendering pacifist types, should have done your history work when you were in school, that’s is if you went to school.
      U.S. is sovereign, states are not sovereign nations, what are you doing here in Alaska anyway?

  4. Will bonus points be given for essays that include strong messages on LGBTQ+ suffering or emancipation, climate change or systemic racism? Senator Murkowski is just about there.

  5. STUDENT: Alexa, please write an essay on the importance of Alaska providing the National Christmas Tree. Make it 250 words or less, and make it sound like a 4th grader wrote it.

    ALEXA: I am not programed to write at a 4th grade level. I suggest contacting Kamala Harris’s speech writers for assistance with this matter.

  6. Fourth grade is higher than Lisa is qualified to go.
    Third graders can spell “I hate Donald Trump,” which is Lisa’s high water bench for intelligence.

  7. I think its a ploy to garner voter support OR get some more addresses for the cheating that they are going to be doing during election season OR Both!

  8. Dear Lisa. Im writing to reflect on why you wouldn’t intro savings curriculum into the elementary schools when it was suggested 10 yrs ago by the society of CPA’s. The program called Feed the Pig was a great way to get kids versed in saving early on and fiscal responsibility further along up through high school. I remember well, you said, I won’ take on the National Teachers Ass. This tree represents what you must think about fiscal responsibility and fighting for the kids. Money does grow on trees.

  9. You can ALSO bet that any student mentioning Christmas as celebrating Jesus’ birth or any connection to the REAL meaning of Christmas will be “nixed and never chosen…talk about discrimination ha..

  10. Any fourth grader who can write a short essay on how they plan to become lawyers by passing the Bar Exam on the first try, should get the award.

  11. Great idea. If only it was about the US Constitution. We are looking for evidence of knowledge of actual intentions of the international lawyers and learned others including the people of the land who contributed their wisdom into this 1776 Constitution and from documents. We recognize that kids that kids who know that document will secure and defend it while those who cannot articulate their rights and how they got them will not defend their rights from marauders of any stripe.

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