Alaska Ping.
Posted on 10/09/2018 1:50:01 PM PDT by ColdOne
I disagree with this move. She could have done damage, and she didn’t. She was classy about how she handled this.
If Trump can win over NK, he can find common ground with Murkowski, who is in and of the Alaskan swamp.
she needs to be REPLACED, ASAP!
going with the obvious lynch mob when there was Zero evidence against the nominee......
a horrible IMMORAL vote.
Alaska Ping.
If you do anything against her she will flip and become a democrat. Better to slowly marginalize her. Cut off all funding request she makes and make her useless to the people of Alaska. When she cant “bring home the bacon” the people of Alaska will vote her out in 2022.
If the pubs pick up some senate seats her vote will not be necessary anymore.
Oooooo a reprimand that will teach to stab us in the back /s
First, Alaska has to enact a sore looser statute, so she knows that she can’t pull the write-in gambit again. But I agree, that for the present, the local GOP should just sit tight and do nothing. She’s more good to us as an R at the moment until such time as the R’s build up their number in the Senate so they can afford to jettison her. And ,maybe the Alaska GOP should get off their a$$es and start working to recruit some one who could actually beat her.
She ran as independent, not GOP, last time.
She won by being able to claim she brings home the bacon.
Make sure she can’t anymore.
“Technically, this title is incorrect. She voted “present” not “no.”
Actually she voted “no”. Then after everyone else voted she changed her vote to “present”.
Ms Murkowski appeared to be more worried about following angry instructions from Diane Feinstein (great online photo of this) than the wishes of her own electorate.
Would this not be worry about political repercussions?
Hmmm?
No, it was a present vote. Check the congressional record.
Personally I don’t think sore loser statutes are Constitutional. I expect any that are out there will eventually be struck down.
The Constitution does not account for the existence of parties. It makes no provisions for them. An individual running for office is just an individual, and free to run under whatever banner they choose.
“She SHOULD be stripped of ANY committee assignments.”
That’s usually the sign saying running in the next election is not in your best interests.
Then, her vote of record is "present."
“Present” is not exactly a “No” vote.
But that is a quibble, and probably unworthy of further comment.
Senator Murkowski probably should not have been elected in 2010, that was a fluke. She had already been “primaried”, and should have not stood a chance, except as a write-in candidate. That long shot on her part put her in the plurality, and that is enough in most venues. Her win in 2016 was also a plurality, because her opponent, Joe Miller, chose to run as a Libertarian and not a Tea Party kind of Republican.
In December 2002, Murkowski--while a member of the state House--was appointed by her father, Governor Frank Murkowski, to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy. The vacancy was created when Frank Murkowski resigned from the Senate after being elected Governor.
She's pro-abortion and anti-conservative. She lost the Republican primary, then ran as an independent with backing by Democrats. She does not represent Republican values, and sides with the Democrats who got her elected!
Send her a copy of the strongest worded letter EVER written: THE US CONSTITUTION.
Exactly!!
She’s a R I N O, not a real Republican. She voted to punish a man falsely accused. She has no connection to us.
She voted NO. Then withdrew her vote. She voted NO.
“Technically, this title is incorrect. She voted “present” not “no.” (I am not defending her, just pointing out a fact.)”
Really she voted NO just like the title says, she only changed her vote to ‘present’ as a favor to that GOP Senator with a daughter that was getting married.
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