Candidates for the United States Senate seat Democrat Pat Chesbro and Republican Kelly Tshibaka joined incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski today at the lunchtime Make It Monday forum presented by the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce.
The forum was hosted by Chugach Electric’s Communications Manager Julie Hasquet, and questions presented to the candidates came from the chamber’s Legislative Committee or from submissions to the chamber website.
“The end game is we need to be there for Ukraine, with Ukraine,” Murkowski said. “I think we’re seeing that on the ground as they are prevailing against all odds. It has taken resources, it has taken sacrifices from the United States and from other countries, but think about the sacrifices that the people in Ukraine are making in the defense of freedom.”
A topic of concern for many Alaskans is the possibility of an upcoming constitutional convention. Alaskans will decide in November whether or not to review the state’s foundational document. Chesbro echoed Murkowski’s sentiment that the constitution’s current functionality is sufficient for Alaskans. “We believe government’s of the people, by the people, for the people, and we have a provision that allows us — the people — to examine the Constitution and decide if there’s any changes that need to be made,” Tshibaka said. “I’m not at all afraid of Alaskans taking the opportunity to examine the Constitution and then put proposals before the people for us to vote it up or down and say we do or don’t want those changes.
A topic of concern to many Alaskans is abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe vs. Wade earlier this year.“A person’s reproductive choices belong to that person,” Chesbro said. “They don’t belong to someone sitting somewhere else deciding for them.”
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