Another two Republican district committees and one additional Republican women’s club have passed resolutions calling for Sen. Mitch McConnell and the Republican Leadership Fund to cease its negative ads against Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka.
That brings the number of resolutions from voting units of the state party to eight — five district committees and three women’s clubs.
District 13 and District 23 joined Districts 6, 9, and 30, bringing the number of similarly worded resolutions to five out of the 40 organized Republican districts in the state.
Tshibaka is endorsed by the Alaska Republican Party, while Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been censured by an overwhelming vote that occurred in 2021, and was asked to leave the party. The national party has remained silent on the issue of Murkowski being at odds with her state’s party, but Sen. McConnell of Kentucky, who controls the Senate Leadership Fund, has endorsed Murkowski and is spending $7 million to destroy Murkowski’s Republican-endorsed opponent, Tshibaka.
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The Republican Women of the Kenai Club also issued a resolution this week, joining the Anchorage Republican Women’s Club and the Mat-Su Republican Women’s Club in calling for the censure of McConnell. The three clubs are some of the most active and engaged women’s groups in Alaska politics.
The resolution from the Kenai women takes it up a notch: It condemns McConnell for his bullying of Tshibaka, and it asks that the Alaska Republican Party make a stronger statement about the attack ads that have been all over the airwaves in Alaska, paid for with Republican donations to the Senate Leadership Fund.
The group also asked that the matter be brought before the State Central Committee for a vote of censure. The resolution calls the current Alaska Republican Party response from its chairwoman Ann Brown as “anemic, toothless, and ineffective.”
The club is requesting that Kentucky Republicans take swift action to condemn their senator and that the Alaska Republican Party demand that the Republican National Committee also defend the Alaska Republicans in their efforts to elect Tshibaka.
The Senate Leadership Fund is a superPAC controlled by the Senate’s top Republican, which has been spending enormous amounts to try to retake the Senate. But rather than focusing on Democrats, McConnell is spending millions in Alaska to interfere with the Alaska Senate race between two powerful Republicans — the incumbent Murkowski and challenger Tshibaka, who has built a huge base of support in a short period of time. Democrat Pat Chesbro is widely understood as just providing a backup vote for Murkowski in the ranked choice scenario now being used in Alaska elections.
The movement in Alaska among Republican leaders has started to gain national attention, with stories in The Federalist and Breitbart about the growing number of local resolutions.
