Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan has been a star at the Republican National Convention, appearing at events alongside grassroots Alaskans, dressed in a smart suit, with his wife Julie Fate Sullivan at his side. He has spent more time there than most other Republican senators or congressional representatives.
But Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been seen nowhere, not even in Alaska, according to reports from around the state. She’s done a deep dive into silence. And she has been largely absent from her social media account. That may be because she is a “never-Trumper,” with her well-known hatred of Donald Trump.
Neither senator is allowed to use their official social media accounts for political business, but Murkowski has been quiet for four days since her one social media post that spoke about the assassination attempt against Trump.
Today, her staff simply posted a congratulatory message to Alaska’s two Olympic athletes, Kristen Faulkner of Homer, on the U.S. Cycling Pursuit Team; and Alev Kelter of Eagle River, on the U.S. Rugby team. The message was from the entire congressional delegation.
Murkowski avoided being with the Alaska Republicans who are at the convention, and has said several times she is considering leaving the Republican Party, especially is Trump is elected. For her, Trump is a bridge too far.
She may now be realizing that, with Republicans on the rise and the likelihood that Trump will win in November, she could very well be odd-man-out in a new Republican majority in the Senate.
Murkowski has to pick her path carefully now, because she is in line to become a leading Republican member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, should the Republicans regain majority rule in the Senate.
Murkowski was the only Republican senator facing re-election in 2021 who voted Trump guilty at his impeachment trial. Trump went on to endorse Kelly Tshibaka for Alaska’s Senate seat, but Murkowski’s minions outsmarted him by convincing Alaskans to adopt ranked-choice voting, which ensured her reelection.
“She is neither Republican in form or action. Everything she’s done to this point is about big-government — she just wants to grow government,” observed Michael Tavoliero, a Republican activist from Eagle River. “When you look at her record, she maintained that ‘you put legislation repealing Obamacare in front of it I’ll vote for it,’ but when it was in front of her she was a key vote to keep it in place. She voted for every big-money Biden bill we’ve seen.”
In addition to being on the outs with her own party, Murkowski has had other bad news this week that may contribute to her going into her bunker.
An applicant for U.S. District Court judgeship was outed by the Alaska Landmine as being involved in a sex-texting scandal with former federal District Court Judge Josh Kindred, who has recently and quite suddenly resigned under pressure, after an investigation by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Landmine disrobed the seedy scandal that involves lawyers in both the Justice Department of the Biden Administration, and the court system itself.
Although Michelle Nesbett applied, she was not among those who were actually considered, even as she lines up with Murkowski on many liberal issues. Nesbett was the Alaska attorney who led 120 women lawyers from Alaska to Washington, D.C. to meet with Murkowski and ask her to vote down the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Murkowski complied and voted against Kavanaugh, who was confirmed, nonetheless.
After receiving applicants for the open position created by the retirement of Judge Timothy Burgess, Sullivan last September set up a panel to help the delegation recommend a judge candidate. The nine-member panel helped him delay the appointment of a liberal to that seat. He and Murkowski don’t appear to agree on candidates for the job of federal judge.
Murkowski was hostile to the nominating council process Sullivan set in place, preferring to defer to the highly political Alaska Bar Association. Murkowski said the Sullivan judicial council process would delay filling a vacant Alaska U.S. District Court seat.
The application period for that judgeship ended in November, and 16 have applied. It’s the president who names the federal judges, but almost always with the advice of the state’s delegation. And that is where things get sticky.
With the rise of Donald Trump as a viable nominee, and the fall of President Joe Biden, who has gone from slightly addled to nearly decrepit, Murkowski is finding herself in a no-man’s land. She had probably hoped to put in a liberal pro-abortion judge to line up with U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, who is an appointee of President Barack Obama. But now, with Biden ailing and Trump in a position to win, she may lose this opportunity to make a liberal-dominated district court for Alaska.
Murkowski aligns with Democrats more than Republicans, yet if she becomes an actual registered “independent,” she may get no significant role in the leadership organization in the Senate that seems more and more likely to favor Republicans. And her hatred of Trump makes her less of an asset to Alaska.
So among other things, Princess is disingenuous coward. Don’t want to comment on Trump? Sad, but understandable. But staying away from the convention?
But boy, so much will be forgiven because she brings in the pork.
For all her bluster I doubt she’ll leave if the GOP takes the Senate. Too much power, too much pork.
Murkowski’s gotta go. Get Dahlstrom to start campaigning for her job
Dahlstrom is worse that Murkowski. We need new blood in these jobs. The state has seen years of wasted votes on trash families of Stevens, Murkowski and Young. They have been dead beats but good for donations only. Wake up Alaska and look for talent. We need a change in the state constitution and limits on terms, very badly. Dahlstrom had a bad record as a commissioner, with suicides, murders and drug running in prisons. Dunleavy closed the reporting to the public and shut communications down since he was running for a second term and didn’t have anyone that wanted to run with him but Dahlstrom. So, he had to make her look like she was a professional without blemish. She is a mess going some place to create more disaster. Wake up Alaska!!
Agreed!
My comment was for Leo, not DK! We want to see Nancy more!!! Unless Dunleavy leaves to become a member of the Trump cabinet and Nancy steps up as Governor.
Well here we are… Two decades later from her first State wide run for her daddies appointment…
She was invited by the Bethel Republican club to a sponsored campaign trip. We told her housing and transportation would be provided by hosts.. all Republicans.
Hmmm… She shows up at the Bethel Lions club in the City Managers surban, driven by City Manager Bob Herron… Senator Lyman Hoffmans brother in law… Well you can just imagine how many pissed off Republicans were at the gathering that had just been crapped on publicly by Lisa….
That was just the begining of her incestuous hirings with the Hoffman’s and Democrats on the YK Delta.
Snakes slither together…. Hows Lisa and Peltolas fish party doing today???
Should the Republicans reach fifty-three or so in the US Senate the chances that Senator Murkowski is excluded from a meaningful role increase. The Republican senators are going to ask: “What benefits do we get from her being in the Republican caucus? She votes with the Left on most key issues; let’s simplify things. Out.”
Further, her role as a big spender on the Senate Appropriations Committee could be at risk.
When Alaskan elections are not rigged, she’ll be retired.
With any luck she’ll leave on her own accord before then.
Wow we seem to always get the bottom of the barrel representing Alaska in DC, I wonder why?
Tavoliero nailed it … “She is neither Republican in form or action. Everything she’s done to this point is about big-government — she just wants to grow government.” In my opinion, she’ll never “ever” be a Republican, and obviously she is publicly considering to jumping somewhere else.
She never has accomplished anything of significance early in her life. Once daddy back-filled Ted’s seat with Lisa (the classic example of nepotism), she’s now addicted to the power and prominence, an insatiable appetite, feeding a never satisfied narcissistic character.
Indeed, her intrinsic value to AK907 is swiftly eroding.
that is some serious MDS
Lisa is hiding out in Jackson Hole, along with House Husband, and staying at Liz Cheney’s. They have plans to attend the Democratic National Convention next month. Lisa refused to sign our “get well” card to President Trump. Trump was nice enough to send Lisa a card that said, “get well, and be sure to have a check-up with your mental health professional, ASAP.”
I want her to be out of our state and country.
She needs to go away.
She is vile, but BOTH are corrupt. Sullivan’s silence and lack of action on J6 prisoners and the atrocious attack on our Republic he shoukd be ashamed.
He is a war industrial complex pawn.
Good luck. She’s a consumate politician and that means career survival.is her only ethic.
If the GOP takes the Senate, Trump returns to the White House, and Alaskans send Peltola packing, Lisa will experience a mea culpa and become as much a state’s rights conservative MAGA as you’ve ever seen.
Thing is, no one, not even she, really knows where she stands on anything.
“……… she is in line to become a leading Republican member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, should the Republicans regain majority rule in the Senate……….”
I would hope that Senate leadership would put her out to pasture.
Lisa Murkowski is an absolutely horrible person.
Just horrible!!
Agree fully. And we know!
How many RINO neocons have voted for her every election – but, “hold their nose” when voting for Sarah.
Time for some self reflection, people.
I pray Begich is not going to be another RINO.
I’ve never voted for Lisa – couldn’t get over the rank nepotism.
She’s only survived because of the RINO’s
*Pray Begich ISN’T going to be another RINO.
Mabie the vaccine finally got her??? Who knows.
Lisa is starting to piss me off too. I can’t leave Wrangell and get on the ferry boat without being confronted by someone who still thinks Joe Biden is her daddy. I should have appointed John Binkley.
I told you that in 2002, Frankie. Now our royal legacy with the Alaska Republican Party is turning to manure again. Our girl is making our old age years a nightmare. People in Wrangell hate us again.
Are her and Mary moose hunting together this fall?
Big Mike at a place of honor with Trump, as seen on national TV yesterday during the RNC, is a sure bet who will be running for US Senate. With RCV gone as a distant nightmare. Murky will fade away, quickly be forgotten, as was her father.
Lisa has turned into a disgusting Alaskan.
Worse. She is having mental episodes. A complete breakdown is in the works. When Trump is re-elected, Lisa will have to be committed to API.
Maybe she’s earmarked for a trial date? One can only hope so.
Earlier this week I saw the “Bank” along w/ his handler “Mr Muskowski Jr” at Black Cup coffee in ANC, but no sign of Princess; guess she doesn’t like coffee much now that she hangs w/ “sleepy Joe”
I imagine the atmosphere in her office is exactly the same as it was in the offices of politicians in the GDR when the Berlin wall came down. Running around frantically trying to figure out what will happen after all those years of supporting communists, when she should’ve been supporting her own party.
However.. Lets get to the root of the issue. GOP Alaska. They are the ones responsible for going out to cemeteries and digging up corpses and palming them off as “candidates”.
I’d very much like to see GOP Alaska take a litmus test to see exactly where their loyalties lie, because I have the feeling they’ve prostituted themselves out to the other party.
YET, Stupid Republican national committee backs this RINO everytime over actual conservatives. Which is why they get no support from my family.
Lisa is a tormented person. A baby-killing Catholic, and Republican traitor. She is so compromised with confusion, that her senses are
replete with anger, vitriol, and hate. Her face tells the story. She resembles an old hag.
Pray for Lisa, it’s sad when you see a person given over to the dark side that the constitution so truthfully stands against. Pray for We the People to be Lisa Murkowski’s North Star of purpose and God to give light to her path.
Murkowski needs to go
Murkowski hasn’t been a conservative for a long, long time now. She needs to just get out. It’s time to retire and take Mary with you.
She forgot that the the toes you step on today might be connected to the backside you’ll have to kiss tomorrow
Please, please leave the Republican party!
As long as rural Alaska continues to get their handouts, they will continue to vote Lisa. They know who butters their bread. And she knows the right people to rub elbows with when she’s out there. At my work, women leadership are all about progressivism and Lisa because of her staunch support of abortion and her leftist leanings. And this has been going on for more than 15 years. As one of them continues to repeat: “With woman power we will continue to win.” Let there be no mistake, every time Lisa says, “good public policy,” it’s critical you hold your children tight, your wallet close and be prepared to either have something done to you or something taken away.
Lisa is showing classic symptoms of delusion and fatigue. This leads to depression. She can no longer find validation with her own political party, and that’s why she is searching for friends elsewhere. This is a serious problem for a politician, especially in Alaska where communities are tight and self-supportive. My impression is that Lisa needs to be in therapy. The so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is not clinically recognized as a mental health problem, yet. But in Lisa Murkowski’s differential diagnosis for both a behavioral and mental prognosis, I would say she may be breaking new ground in the area of psychiatric care. A full and complete evaluation should be her top priority.
I think every person in the Senate and House should have full, complete evaluation!
We have suggested therapy for Lisa many, many times over. But her House Husband keeps interfering. He’s watching her get old and angry so he can commit her into API and then clean out the bank accounts and run off with one of his many girlfriends. Lisa is destined to be strapped down at API, where no one will see her again …..or even care.
Come and get her. I’ve been waiting for a decade and a half. Geez, Frankie. I thought you had control over your daughter. You appointed a back-stabbing, insincere, thoroughly confused political hack who couldn’t find her way around my noodle stand. Please, come rescue me!!
Time for a mental exam, Lisa. You are losing your mind, whatever is left of it. The several times before the state bar exam, an appointment by your dad, a write-in by Democrats, and RCV to allow Democrats to keep you in power……..all signs of a person who no longer belongs in politics. Just ask your daddy, Joe Biden.
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