Lisa Murkowski walks a tightrope between energy development and environmental concerns

Published July 17, 2014 9:00pm ET



Lisa Murkowski‘s name is etched in a slab of sidewalk just blocks from the Capitol.

“Fill it in Write it in Lisa Murkowski,” the concrete reads vertically, referring to the instructions the Alaska Republican gave voters during her improbable 2010 write-in campaign to keep her Senate seat after losing the GOP primary to a Tea Party challenger. It was the first write-in victory for a congressional campaign since 1954, when Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond pulled it off.

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