A group of officers from the Alaska Republican Party Central Committee are calling on the Alaska Republican Party to make a statement regarding integrity of the presidential elections.

Over 30 of them signed a letter requesting the party issue the following statement, or a similar statement:

“Millions of Americans across the country are concerned about the integrity of our elections. They believe that significant voter fraud occurred in the 2020 Presidential election. They have held protests in states across the country as a result. Thousands of Alaskans agree with them. 

“There are too many allegations of fraud, too many affidavits, too many unanswered questions about legitimacy. Congress should do their due diligence and conduct their own review before approving disputed electors.

The Alaska Republican Party is concerned that the fraud that has been exposed so far may have influenced the presidential election.” 

The signers say they don’t want to call out any members of the congressional delegation by name, but want to support the position taken by thousands of Alaska Republicans who believe the election was rife with fraud in some of the key battleground. The signers of the letter to Alaska Republican Party Chairman Glenn Clary include former party Chairman Tuckerman Babcock, several regional representatives and district chairs :

• Ron Johnson – Region 2 Representative
• Spencer Moore – Region 3 Representative
• Steve Strait – Region 4 Representative
• Christine Hill – Region 5 Representative
• Christine Hutchinson – Region 6 Representative
• Judy Eledge – President Anchorage Republican Women’s Club
• Michele Hartline – President Republican Women of the Kenai
• Sarah Hetemi – President Young Republicans
• Tuckerman Babcock – Previous ARP Chair
• John Rathbun – District 1 Chair
• Barbara Tyndall – District 3 Chair
• Joe Kurber – District 4 Chair
• Hank Smith – District 5 Chair
• Loy Thurman – District 8 Chair
• Carol Carman – District 9 Chair
• Todd Smoldon – District 10 Chair
• Joe Wright – District 14 Chair
• Connor Parker – District 16 Chair
• Richard Shafer – District 20 Chair
• Christy Strutz – District 22 Chair
• Bruce Schulte – District 24 Chair
• Grover Johnson – District 25 Chair
• Wayne Ogle – District 29 Chair
• Randy Daly – District 30 Chair
• Jon Faulkner – District 31 Chair
• Rich Thorne – District 40 Chair
• Elizabeth Holm – District 3 Bonus Vote
• Vicki Wallner – District 9 Bonus Vote
• Michael Tavoliero – District 14 Bonus Vote
• Barbara Blakeley – District 29 Bonus Vote
• Charlene Tautfest – District 30 Bonus Vote
• William Deaton – District 32 Bonus Vote

Must Read Alaska was not able to connect with Alaska Republican Party Chairman Glenn Clary for comment.

William Deaton, a Republican in Cordova, Alaska, has penned an open letter to the congressional delegation, asking Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young to not certify the vote of the Electoral College, due to widespread instances of suspected election fraud. He wants other Alaskans to sign the letter, which he will send to the delegation offices on Monday evening.

Deaton is a precinct leader in the Republican Party but has written the letter in his own capacity. He said it can by signed by anyone, and in the one hour that he made the Google document available, he saw that over 30 had already signed it.

The letter points out that hearings held subsequent to Election Day have highlighted hundreds of instances where election fraud was suspected, and that the Democrats put forth “a concerted effort to steal this election from President Trump and Vice President Pence.”

The open letter can be signed at this link.

Sen. Murkowski has already reiterated that she will be voting to certify the Electoral College vote, while Sen. Dan Sullivan and Congressman Don Young have not yet signaled their intentions. Congress meets in joint session on Jan. 6 to accept or reject the Electoral College vote, and several senators, led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, have organized to announce they will reject it.

“Right now, in our nation’s history, we are at a turning point. We will either stand courageously for election integrity or we will fall to the theft that will occur in future elections,” Deaton wrote.

Signature gatherers are making one final push this weekend to complete the signatures they need to recall Anchorage Assembly member Felix Rivera.

At a drive-through event at the LaMex restaurant on Friday, they picked up a steady stream of signatures from local residents. The group Reclaim Midtown will be out on Saturday at Tudor Bingo, from noon-3 pm. The address is 1436 E. Tudor Road.

On Sunday, a drive-through signing event will be at the Golden Lion Hotel on 1000 East 36th Avenue (New Seward Highway), in midtown. That is the hotel the Anchorage Assembly purchased for the someday-use as a controversial drug rehabilitation center. The time to sign is after church between 1-4 pm.

Signature gatherers are also in other locations, plus at least 10 people are walking door to door this weekend to collect signatures.

Rivera represents Assembly District 4. Only those registered to vote in that district are qualified to sign the recall petition, which must have at least 2,735 qualified signatures by Jan. 5, when the petition must be turned into the Municipal Clerk’s Office, which will verify the signatures.

That number represents 25 percent of the votes cast in the April 7, 2020 election for the seat.

The signers must live within the outlines of this map:

Rivera has started a defense fund to campaign on his behalf, if the recall petition is approved for the April 6 ballot. He is planning to fight it in court.

ALASKA’S FUTURE IS IN GEORGIA’S HANDS

The U.S. Senate adjourned at 4:10 pm on Friday, leaving in place a long-negotiated stimulus package with $600 checks for Americans, rather than the $2,000 checks sought by President Donald Trump and Democrats.

The U.S. Constitution mandates that Congress convene on Sunday, Jan. 3 at noon, and every other year it is considered a “new” Congress, which means if the new Congress wants to take up the $2,000 stimulus check, it may do so anew in this first session of the 117th Congress. But it’s unlikely.

MRAK Poll: Do you support the $600 or the $2,000 stimulus check for Americans?

Which political party controls the new Senate won’t be decided until Tuesday, Jan. 5, when two runoff elections occur in Georgia. If Democrats win the two seats, then the control of the Senate will be handed to the Democrats, and that would mean Democrats won a trifecta — the Presidency, House, and Senate.

In one of the Georgia races, Republican Sen. David Perdue is running for reelection against challenger Democrat Jon Ossoff in a regularly scheduled election that went to a runoff.

In the other race, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler is challenged by Democrat Raphael Warnock in a special election also in a runoff; Loeffler was appointed to fill former Sen. Johnny Isakson’s seat after he resigned for health reasons on Dec. 31, 2019.

Because the Georgia runoff election comes two days after Congress convenes, the Senate will at least start under the control of Sen. Mitch McConnell and the Republicans, who have a slim 50-48-senator majority.

The Senate now stands at 50 Republicans and 48 Democrats. If Democrats win both runoffs, the party will have control of the chamber because Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would break any ties. But if Republicans win one of the two races, they will maintain control.

The House had already voted in favor of the $2,000 stimulus check, while the more conservative Republicans opposed it.

But in the Senate, it never made it to a vote. The question may influence the outcome of the Georgia runoff election, as the $2,000 check is popular among Americans struggling with job loss and economic hardship due to the policies resulting from the pandemic.

In fact, the Georgia race may come down to whether voters believe the $2,000 check is a dealbreaker for them.

According to several polls, 78 percent of Americans favor the $2,000 stimulus, as proposed by the president. The Data for Progress poll shows that 73 percent of Republicans nationally support the $2,000 payments, including 52 percent who strongly support them, according to the statistical firm FiveThirtyEight.com.

“Based on those numbers, it’s almost certainly the case that a majority of Republicans in Georgia support the payments,” the website reports.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy told Fox News on Sunday that he favors the $2,000 stimulus check. That puts Dunleavy and Trump in the same camp as most Democrats in Congress and the majority of Americans.

Conservatives, on the other hand, have argued that borrowing a half-trillion dollars from Americans of the future to pay Americans today is bad policy. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan have been vague on their support of it, while Senate Majority Leader McConnell called it “socialism for the rich.”

Currently, Murkowski is terming out of her chairmanship of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the  Senate Appropriations Committee, where she chairs and serves on several subcommittees; she also serves on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Committee on Indian Affairs.

Sen. Sullivan currently serves on the Senate Committee on Armed Services and is the chair of the Readiness and Management Support subcommittee. He also serves on the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, where he chairs the Communications Technology, Innovation, the Internet, Manufacturing, Trade, and Consumer Protection, and the Science, Oceans, Fisheries and Weather subcommittees. He also serves on the Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

The new committee assignments for this 117th Congress could change with the makeup of the new Senate. The Alaska delegation and its ability to defend Alaska’s interests will be decided by Tuesday’s Georgia vote.