Lisa Murkowski: Switch to Democrat?
Murkowski will not commit to caucusing with the Republicans if elected
Anchorage, Alaska. November 1, 2010 — Senator Lisa Murkowski refuses to state for certain if she will caucus with the Republican Party if she wins re-election. Murkowski who likes to tout her willingness to “reach across the aisle” now seems willing to cross over entirely.
Yesterday, Fox News’ Greta Van Susteran asked Lisa Murkowski, “Will you caucus with the Republicans?” to which Murkowski responded, “At this point in time, absolutely…yes, ah, I believe that I’ll be with the Republicans as I was before.” Van Susteran continued: “You say, you believe, but I never thought there was any doubt.” Murkowski went on to state that she would go back with a “certain independence that comes from not being your party’s nominee.”
During a CNN interview yesterday, Senator Murkowski was also very elusive. Murkowski stated that her break from the GOP, her loss in the primary, has been “really very liberating.” The CNN story went on to say: “She skirted the issue when asked what party she would caucus with in the new Congress and said she would be returning to represent ‘Alaskan’s interest,’ instead of the Republican Party’s.”
Joe Miller, the Republican Nominee stated:
“It’s no secret to Alaskans that Senator Murkowski has been part of the out-of-control spending, big government problem in Washington, D.C. that the Democrat Party represents. Murkowski’s record speaks for itself as she has voted over 300 times with the Democrats since taking office and even joined with Senator Arlen Spector to support a job-killing cap and trade bill. Sadly, Alaskans know exactly what Murkowski’s new ‘independence’ would mean given her already left leaning record.”
Recently at the Anchorage Chamber Forum Debate when asked who she admires most in the Senate, Lisa Murkowski named two Democrats: Sen. Tom Carper and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, both of whom voted for the TARP bailouts, last year’s $787 billion stimulus bill, and ObamaCare earlier this year.
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