Lisa Murkowski

    That Was The Week That Was #6.

    By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  September 18th at 12:40 PM  | 

    In this series of weekly articles I usually cover a few of the week’s main story lines. This week, however, a large amount of time has been given in the media to the last of the primary elections… and the fallout that has followed. With only forty five days until the general election, it seems only right that I devote this page to this one | Read More »

    Who Are The NRSC? Why Do They Back Liberal Republicans?

    By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  September 8th at 12:00 PM  | 

    Yesterday, I wrote about establishment Republicans and their apparent opposition to all things Tea Party. Just who the heck are these people? John Cornyn We have just had a key election in Alaska. Incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski went down in defeat to Joe Miller in the Senate primary. Joe Miller was the Conservative ‘Tea Party’ candidate. The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee flew | Read More »

    Murkowski Out In Alaska.

    By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  September 1st at 10:01 AM  | 

    Another incumbent, this time a Republican, has fallen by the wayside. Lisa Murkowski becomes the the seventh incumbent to fall to the wrath of the voters this year. Joe Miller and Lisa Murkowski Murkowski was defeated by conservative lawyer Joe Miller of Fairbanks for the Republican primary. Miller came out of nowhere, backed by the Tea-Party groups and aided as well by an endorsement from | Read More »