FAIRBANKS - Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has received significant support since narrowly losing to Joe Miller in the August GOP primary, a spokesman said Sunday.
Murkowski has yet to endorse her Republican rival, leading to widespread speculation that she is evaluating options for a possible re-entry into the race. She has two options if she wants to re-enter: to be invited to run under the banner of the Alaska Libertarian Party or to mount a write-in campaign.
“She has received a huge outpouring of support from Alaskans, both individuals and groups,” Murkowski spokesman Steve Wackowski wrote Sunday in an e-mail to the Daily News-Miner. He cited support from Alaska Native groups and the fishing and energy industries.
Murkowski herself has said little publicly since conceding the race on Tuesday when absentee and other ballots failed to erase the lead that Miller built on primary election day, Aug. 24. She was busy this weekend with family.
“Like many Alaskans, she is in the Interior, hunting with family and will be out of radio contact for the next few days,” Wackowski wrote.
Wackowski has not responded to a request for a follow-up telephone interview.
Miller said Sunday he expects Murkowski will stick to her promise, made at a mid-August chamber of commerce forum on the Kenai Peninsula, to follow the will of Republican primary voters and bow out following the loss.
"We both said that. We expect she'd keep her word, we think she will," Miller told the News-Miner by phone.
"It was the honorable thing to concede at that point," he said of Murkowski's decision Tuesday during a count of absentee and questioned ballots. "And we want to honor that."
Only the Libertarian Party would be available to Murkowski since election law only allows a candidate change if the party already has a candidate on the November ballot. The Libertarian Party is the only other party with a candidate running for U.S. Senate.
The deadline to make a switch is Sept. 15.
The state party’s leadership earlier voted to not take on Murkowski, but Alaska Libertarian Party Chairman Scott Kohlhaas told the Anchorage Daily News recently that discussions have occurred since then.
Meanwhile, the Miller campaign on Sunday announced the backing of Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan. “Joe will bring new energy and new ideas to Congress and that is what our country needs in these challenging times,” Sullivan said in a statement released by the Miller campaign.
The Miller campaign on Monday announced the endorsement of two state legislators: Rep. Mike Kelly of Fairbanks and Rep. Bob Lynn of Anchorage.
I see some are still in place -- across from Sam's
and on the Steese Fwy near College Rd.
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I think couple of new Joe Miller signs popped up in the same general area..
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If Lisa is leaving her signs up, to ME that is an omen she going to try and split the vote.
I also, notice she has not endorsed Joe Miller,YET.
only 5 clicks till I got a readable captchea..what's going on? The count is usually in the high teens
I do think it can be done however; just look at what former Borough Mayor Jim Whitacker's endorsement of Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic National Campaign Convention did for him (he's best known now as Luke Hopkins's Number One Cheerleader in the Borough Assembly Meetings).
Sorry, but you misunderstood me.
The sentence you cited was not mine but was a quote that I offered back to someone else (twain, I think).
I don't consider Joe Miller a 'trainwreck' (and, indeed, I hope he wins the election).
The second and third paragraphs reflect my feelings more accurately...
I hate to admit this but I was ready to do precisely what I used to criticize Democrats for doing, "Anybody BUT George Bush (or in this case, Lisa)..." but then Joe Miller started to recite his "Platform" and I agree with most of it. I didn't like (or agree with) most of Lisa's decisions AND that's why I voted FOR JOE as much as I voted AGAINST her!
I get a huge outpouring of support, too, when I choose to go where my supporters are.
Interesting how we've become a society so enthralled with un- Qualified semi- Quantified statements.
You failed.
The voters was heard.
Miller won the votes.
You are not 16 & it's not your party to cry....
It's Joe's party & he is not crying.
If Lisa falls for it, she will be branded a traitor.
Tuckerman declined to say what specific further landmass cutbacks Alaska will undergo or whether Alaska would eventually shrink to a size smaller than Texas and end its half century reign as the largest state.
"I can only say there have been significant signs of interest from other corporations and even some other states, for example, California has expressed interest in the Sitka and Juneau boroughs and West Virginia recently sent an inquiry about the availability of the MatSu." Tuckerman added. "If you take the 'pay your own way' strategy to its logical conclusion then the only parts of the state to turn a profit are probably the North Slope and Anchorage boroughs, and I'm not too sure about Anchorage."
Officials from Toyota of America say they accelerated the purchase process for the Ketchikan Gateway Borough because they were concerned it would lose its value as a vehicle test center if the state moved forward with completion of the various Department of Transportation road projects currently taking place.
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"You know the roadways - or lack thereof - of Southern Southeast Alaska are legendary," She said. "Two decades ago, Lee Iaccoca was "this close" to turning Prince of Wales into a giant Chrysler test track. Then the Federal Government ruined everything by building big fancy roads all over the place. Fortunately, the roads in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough have not only remained substandard, but the State Department of Transportation has kept them in a perpetually torn up state for years. The populace is so used to bad roads they wouldn't know the difference if we added enhanced safety testing obstacles."
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"Best of all we can cancel the road contracts and save millions of dollars if we just leave them as is," he added. "If we keep the borough then we have to figure out a way to replace the tens of millions of federal dollars that we will need for future Ketchikan road projects. And that's just not going to happen."
Officials from the Ketchikan Gateway Borough were unavailable to comment this afternoon.
http://www.sitnews.us/DaveKiffer/090710_kiffer.html
Might sell McAdams' area too.....
Can you say bull----
go away.
The Democrat does not have prayer's change of winning without Lisa splitting the vote.
The Democrats used that trick to get rid of Stevens with the help of the AIP and two local talking heads on radio.
Vote for the man not the party, was their jingle.
Politics are a team sport -- if you want to promote your cause you must join the Ds or Rs or go sit in the corner, sulk, and complain you are not being represented.
I will vote for Joe continue my one vote effort to send a message to the national Republicans: no more creeping socialism.
We have more people ridding the wagon than pulling it.
Obama care is going to create 2,000,000 federal jobs and 17,000 IRS jobs according to Nancy P.
Someones, standard of living must be reduced with new taxes and higher taxes to fund those jobs.
Socialism is not cheap, nor free.
Remember, he Pied Piper was loved because the played his flue to rid Hamlin of rats. Then he sent them the bill. OOOOPPPPS.. he did not work for free.
Good for the AIP Party denying Walker a sore looser option. He can join those before him that were unprincipled and without integrity to split the conservative vote.
To talk about lies: Miller has SAID he wants to phase out Social Security and Medicare although his letter to seniors on his website does not say that. He says it will be gradual so people getting benefits now will get them but later generations won't get the money they paid in. But he is clear that he wants these not to be govt. programs. So who is lying there?
And once again, Examiner, is lying on this post about me as I have told him before that I am not a federal employee nor am I a retired federal employee. As for my politics I am registered as independent but generally vote Democrat. As for everything else he says, he is dishonest again.
And lee308 obviously has no idea what socialism or communism is to call someone like Lisa, supported by the corporations a communist. The health care plan is still an insurance program of the corporations.
AKJUNEAUGIRL.... I hope I didnt convey that Lisa never did any good. No to me her negatives just outweigh the positives. Y ou do a good job defending her... good luck.