{"id":67894,"date":"2021-02-17T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-is-lisa-murkowski-really-a-role-model\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T07:30:00","slug":"opinion-is-lisa-murkowski-really-a-role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-is-lisa-murkowski-really-a-role-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Is Lisa Murkowski really a role model?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think of the irony. Lisa Murkowsk, a lawmaker, voted to convict a private citizen of insurrection without a hearing or witnesses. She ignored that house managers altered videos and text messages by House Managers. She had no objection to a partisan senator acting as judge and jurist.<\/p>\n<p>What type of person abandons basic constitutional rights of the accused and is allowed to represent Alaskans in making laws that impact their lives?<\/p>\n<p>Senator Murkowski is up for election in 2022 and Alaskans have to decide if she is worthy of their representation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dave Bernhardt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Newman Lake, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><em><ins>\u2022 Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? <a>Here\u2019s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a><\/ins><\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawmaker voted to convict a private citizen of insurrection without a hearing or witnesses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":67895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-67894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67894"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}