Alaska’s supposedly-Republican Senator, Princess Lisa Murkowski, recently spoke with the Alaska Legislature and later, with the local press corps. She is worried, it seems, about Elon Musk trying to derail her 2028 re-election efforts with his “Starlink money.” There may indeed be some reason for Musk to get involved; Must Read Alaska’s Suzanne Downing, as we have come to expect, has the details.
In a half hour spent with the Capitol press corps this week, Sen. Lisa Murkowski brought up her own electability, which may be in question even for her, a senator who has served since being appointed by her father, Gov. Frank Murkowski, in 2002.
Murkowski brought up election politics in a government building — the Alaska Capitol — straying close to the line of improper use of a government facility for partisan elections.
In remarks that were more animated than her…
