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Local Alaska Republicans censure Sen. Lisa Murkowski, citing impeachment vote and other issues - Anchorage Daily News
Feb 17, 2021 1 min, 48 secs

JUNEAU — Republican officials in at least five Alaska state House districts have approved resolutions censuring U.S.

Lisa Murkowski, and many of those officials said they believe the state party also will consider a resolution denouncing her.

Republican officials in other states have expressed their disapproval of elected Republicans who supported impeachment, but Alaska’s Republican organization has remained relatively quiet until recently.

Under Alaska Republican Party rules, a letter of censure is “an official rebuke and disapproval,” but it can also act as a political windsock, indicating a lack of support for a particular person.

In Homer, Republican district chairman Jon Faulkner said Murkowski’s support of the Trump impeachment was “the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back” for Republicans in his district.

He said local Republicans have become disenchanted with Murkowski for a variety of reasons, including her vote on Obamacare (something he said demonstrated a lack of support for small businesses), a lack of support for Trump, overspending at the federal level, and “a spectrum of issues that we’ll call constitutional, but also social.”.

28 said Murkowski should be censured because registered Republicans should make a good-faith effort to support other Republicans, such as the president.

State chairman Clary has not responded to numerous requests for an interview, but he called in to a conservative radio talk show last month to defend Murkowski and urge the host to stop attacking fellow Republicans.

“I wish, as a party chair, that Republicans would stop demonizing and categorizing each another and support each other … you may not vote for somebody, but that doesn’t mean that you have to demonize somebody and categorize somebody in this category called RINO,” Clary said, referring to the term “Republican In Name Only.”.

Not all of Alaska’s local Republican officials support the effort to censure Murkowski

In House District 32, which sprawls across the Gulf of Alaska coast from Kodiak to Cordova, chairman Duncan Fields said he supports Murkowski

“I think there’s a good number of Alaska Republicans that like her conservative principles, that sort of Alaskan independent — I’m going to vote my conscience — that’s the Alaska thing to do,” he said

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