After nearly a quarter century in Washington, D.C., Sen. Lisa Murkowski has little interest in surrendering her U.S. Senate seat to run for governor of Alaska.
In response to a Feb. 8 question from ForbesTV, Alaska’s senior senator said she has been asked to run for governor by fellow Alaskans.
“Would I not consider returning back to the state that I love and working on hard problems and challenges? – Absolutely,” she said, before quickly adding, “But I also feel that the role that I’m playing here in the United States Senate is a particularly important one for our state and for the country. So, um hard decisions, but you got to pick one and I am here and going to continue to serve Alaskans here.”
The 68-year-old Murkowski has held onto her U.S. Senate seat for 24 years – ever since her father, former-U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski, hand-picked her to fill his vacant seat in 2002. That was the year, the elder Murkowski decided to leave D.C. and run a successful campaign to become Alaska’s governor.
Lisa Murkowski is currently the second most senor GOP woman in the Senate, although she regularly breaks with her fellow Republicans to support Democrats. In 2004 she won her first full term with just 48% of the statewide vote. Six years later, she lost Alaska’s 2010 GOP primary to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, but later defeated Miller in the general election as a write in candidate.
Murkowski’s current term runs through 2028.
Alaska candidates for governor must file their declaration of candidacy with the Alaska Division of Elections by June 1.
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Of course she wants to stay in Washington. In Alaska she’d have to answer to the people who put her in office. In Washington she answers to the people whom can contribute big bucks to her war chest. She’s power hungry with no term limit in Washington.
Lisa is neck deep in the DEEP STATE. Her usefulness to them would be greatly diminished as a Governor. It’s pretty simple to see that if we all want to keep the STATUS QUO, we keep sending the same criminals to represent us (ha, ha, ha). If we want something to change STOP sending the same cucks to keep stealing from you and leading you down the path of destruction
Watch out Lisa. Dunleavy is coming for you! A nightmare coming to a town near you!
Lisa is a textbook narcissist. She always self-serves and talks down to her constituents with pure arrogance. Meet with her in person and she will look right through you while she looks for someone more important than you to interact with. A real phony.
The 68-year-old Murkowski has held onto her U.S. Senate seat for 24 years — Lisas shelf life has long since expired and has stated to shelf ROT.
LISA Hates Trump and lies to us
LISA doesn’t know when to quit.
VOYE HER OUT VOYE HER OUT
How about neither? She should go back into her life as a failed lawyer. No more queens!
Murkowski is the swamp and can’t let go for any reason. She has been in Wash. DC since the seventies. Stay there for all anyone cares.
What I want to know who died and made her the defacto State Department Secretary to speak on behalf of the United States as a “relationship builder” to reassure Greenland and bolster trans-atlantic alliance with Denmark?
“Murkowski was the sole Republican among four senators who took the trip to try to repair the relationship with Greenland after President Trump’s repeated threats to acquire the island. The trip was part of her initiative to bolster what she calls a trans-Arctic alliance. She was part of another congressional trip to Denmark a few weeks ago.”