U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is walking a fine, often contradictory line as she continues to air her grievances with a GOP-backed effort to strengthen election integrity and protect women’s sports from gender-confused men.
On March 21, she spent nearly 45 minutes claiming she supports voter IDs while then raising a long litany of concerns about how it would be too costly and logistically challenging to require Alaskans to show an approved photo ID to vote in federal elections and proof of citizenship to register to vote. She also complained that states shouldn’t have to turn over voter rolls to Homeland Security to remove voters who are noncitizens.
Towards the end of her long speech, she took aim at a proposed amendment to the bill, which sought to bar transgender biological males from competing in – and undermining – women’s sports.
“I’m also not happy to see some provisions tucked into this substitute that target transgender individuals, simply because there’s apparently an opening to do so,” Murkowski stated on March 21. “I don’t know that that has anything to do with voting. These provisions add to the opposition that I have.”
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Despite denouncing the transgender amendment, Murkowski ultimately went against her stated position, fell in line, and voted to add it to the larger voter ID bill.
Nevertheless, the proposed transgender amendments failed to pass the cloture vote (to end debate), with Democrats uniting in opposition. It required 60 votes under Senate filibuster rules, but only got 49 votes and was thus blocked from an up-or-down vote.
The larger SAVE Act is also still in limbo. While it passed the House earlier this month, it requires 60 votes to overcome a Senate filibuster, and Murkowski has continued to resist her fellow Republicans by joining Democrats in opposing its passage.
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Mukowski doesn’t know whst she supports anymore she just follows whatever the Democrats want period !!! she definitely does not Represent Ak anymore she has become someone Ak.does not recognize..she needs to be voted out ASAP..
The Hag of the Alaska Republican Party! A sicko in the extreme and getting worse year by year!
She is a puppet. She is nothing more then a windsock at a municipal airport. She hasn’t a spine either. She looks like a snake now too. Lol
Every person in AK signs up for the PFD. To do so they have to have a Government-issued ID. I fail to see how this is a barrier to showing one’s ID to vote. Lisa never says why she thinks people cannot get ID. She just says it is so. She really must believe we are all as stupid as she seems to be.
TDS has set deep inside what use to be this woman’s soul. We all know she cheats, lies, and manipulates the election process for her own good, not the country’s. She doesn’t care what her constituents think or need, only cares about what she has to do in order to occupy the great people of Alaska senate seat. Be gone with her!
I support Lisa. I am not interested in making it harder for people in the U.S. to vote when their has been little evidence of voter fraud and tacking on an issue of transgender to the bill doesn’t make sense.
If one doesn’t stand for something, they’ll fall for anything! That’s what your situation is! Explain to the readers why you support dropping the borders, inviting 20,000,000 illegals in to the US. And don’t lie, tell us why.
All lame excuses. Show me one voting age, off collecting Alaska resident who does not have a legal identification.
Lisa votes for Lisa, not the Alaskans she is supposedly representing. She is a Democrat, through and through.
who in their sane mind reasons that it’s just fabulous if men compete against women in any sport.
this ridiculous fad needs to be shut down just like mentally ill parents trying to get their kids mutilated under the guise of ” gender affirming care”
its all nuts and everybody knows it
Riddle me this. How did all the rural Alaskans come into Anchorage for the 1, 2, 3, and 4 A Basketball tournaments this month without ID?
Apparently, when up for election, DC politicians are all about making promises how they are connected to the people they intend to represent (whichever party).
But – once elected too many change their tunes.
Democrats become DC hive minded and vote their party line, naturally.
Republicans become DC minded, aide dependent (both for work and information), and too often without the backbone needed to follow through for people they promised to REPRESENT.
Yes, we are not a democracy – we are a Representative Republic. We The People vote from amongst the individuals who are seeking the seat, for the individual we want to ‘represent’ our values and goals.
For Alaska Senate seats, the majority voted Republican.
BUT, in the case of Murkowski, there was both misrepresentation of the party and a lack of integrity of the voting process – multiple times.
The Senate position is a long-held office. This is unfortunate, as in the case of Murkowski.
However, if we are paying attention and vote against RCV (and figure our way around the weasel wording on the ballot), perhaps we can stop one of her ways of cheating the outcome.
Pray it is so.
Hey Murky! Why don’t you just go ahead and dye your hair purple and get a nose ring? Might as well finish what you’ve started.
It’s long past time for getting rid of this horrible woman. Like Voldemort, we just can’t get rid of her. Also, she insults Alaska natives by insisting they are so dumb they can’t figure out how to get IDs, tho we ALL know they’re very competent about finding their way to Anchorage for Healthcare and shopping trips.
This is what happens when stupid daddy appoints stupid salamander daughter to the Senate!
Lisa is guided by her pathological TDS. Anything Trump supports is automatically opposed in the most visceral way. Even for this 80/20 issue that even democrats support. Nick Begich has accomplished more meaningful things for Alaska in one year than Lisa has in her entire pathetic career.
Good!! Maybe she heard us yelling, shouting, screaming at her.