Lisa's Record: 6th Most Liberal Among Senate GOP
Ad Says Lisa Runs Short on Both Experience & Conservative Values
Anchorage, AK - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Miller said that a new radio message launched by his campaign today highlights Lisa Murkowski's liberal record in the U.S. Senate, as well as her lack of experience.
"As election day draws near, Lisa Murkowski is ramping up her efforts to redefine herself as a conservative and the only thing standing in the way is her own voting record," said Miller. "The non-partisan National Journal analysis of Congressional votes in 2003 ranked Lisa Murkowski as the sixth most liberal out of 51 Republicans in the U.S. Senate and she is the 2nd most liberal west of the Mississippi River."
The National Journal's annual study examines key votes on economic issues, social issues, and foreign policy. It assigns a "composite conservative" and "composite liberal" score to each member of Congress. "Lisa's conservative score was 55 percent, compared to 66 percent for Ted Stevens and 77 percent for Don Young," Miller said. "Alaska's appointed senator is the most liberal member of our Congressional delegation and this is in a year when she had been trying to move to the right."
Miller's radio ad also compares his political experience with Murkowski, who was described last week in the Washington Post as "an obscure state legislator" when she was appointed. "Lisa served a mere four years in the State House before she was almost defeated for re-election by an under-funded, unknown Republican challenger," noted Miller. "She then gets handed a U.S. Senate seat by her father, and prepares to face Tony Knowles, even though she has never run against a Democrat in her life. Against this backdrop, Lisa is now running a television ad branding me a "light weight" a claim that is too amusing to qualify as an insult."