Project Veritas, an investigative journalism nonprofit, landed in Anchorage this week and is doing a story about Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her ties to the creation of the ranked choice voting election system created by Ballot Measure 2.
The reporter for Project Veritas tried to show Murkowski a computer screen with what he said was an email that linked her to Ballot Measure 2. It’s unclear what that email said. The incident happened at the Americans for Prosperity event, where the group was paying for people to fill up their tanks.
The piece will run today online, the group says in the flyer above, not citing the time.
Murkowski’s former campaign legal counsel, Scott Kendall, was the driving force behind Ballot Measure 2, and it’s well known in political circles that the ranked choice system was created when Murkowski’s camp realized she could never win the Republican primary again. The ballot measure ushered in a “jungle primary,” robbing Republicans from being able to nominate their own candidate. The only reason Alaska has ranked choice voting this year is because of Murkowski’s reelection campaign.
James O’Keefe established Project Veritas in 2011 as a non-profit journalism enterprise to continue his undercover reporting work. Today, Project Veritas investigates and exposes corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions to achieve a more ethical and transparent society.
Project Veritas is controversial because they get at uncomfortable truths and often record people telling the truth, and they often record people secretly.
Notable Project Veritas interviews, from a list at Wikipedia, include:
- 3.1 Planned Parenthood recordings (2008)
- 3.2 ACORN videos (2009)
- 3.2.1 Reception and lawsuit
- 3.3 New Jersey Teachers’ Union video (2010)
- 3.4 Medicaid videos (2011)
- 3.5 NPR video (2011)
- 3.5.1 Reception
- 3.6 New Hampshire primary video (2012)
- 3.6.1 Reception
- 3.7 Patrick Moran (2012)
- 3.8 Battleground Texas (2014)
- 3.9 Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox (2014)
- 3.10 Americans United for Change videos (2016)
- 3.11 New York City elections official video (2016)
- 3.12 CNN undercover videos (2017)
- 3.13 New Jersey Education Association videos (2018)
- 3.14 Internal Google documents (2019)
- 3.15 ABC not broadcasting Jeffrey Epstein accuser (2019)
- 3.16 Minnesota videos (2020)
- 3.17 Pennsylvania postal worker video (2020)
- 3.18 Texas campaign worker (2020)
- 3.19 New Hampshire double-voter (2020)
