Megalomania and Power Addiction in Alaska

Lisa Murkowski

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski will try to return to Congress with a write-in campaign, after losing a renomination battle to a Republican primary challenger backed by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. “Today, my friends, my campaign for Alaska’s future begins,” Murkowski, 53, told a rally last night in Anchorage. “The gloves are off.” Murkowski lost last month’s primary to Joe Miller, a lawyer from Fairbanks and a former U.S. magistrate judge. In a year when small-government, anti-tax Tea Party activists have sparked intraparty Republican battles from Alaska to Delaware, Murkowski said she was getting back into the race because “we cannot accept the extremist views of Joe Miller.” Murkowski will have to run without official help from Republican colleagues in Washington. Within minutes of her announcement, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky issued a statement saying Murkowski resigned as Senate Republican Conference secretary, a senior leadership post.
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Megalomania and Power Addiction in Alaska