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Sen. Murkowski asks entire staff to quit, reapply

The Associated Press

ANCHORAGE--Staffers who want to continue working for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Washington, D.C. must resign and reapply for their jobs.

The Alaska Republican, who was appointed to the seat, said being elected for the first time gives her a six-year opportunity to assemble the best team she can find. Some of her current staff won't be rehired, she said.

The decision to start fresh with her staff doesn't mean some of the same faces won't be back, Murkowski said. But Justin Stiefel, who resigned as her chief of staff in February to become her campaign manager, will not be returning to his old job, Murkowski said.

"Justin is looking for other opportunities either here in Alaska or in Washington," she said.

Murkowski, a former state representative, was appointed in late 2002 by her father, then-U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski, when he was elected governor.

"I was talking to you folks about what I was going to do as majority leader of the Alaska House," Murkowski told reporters Wednesday in Anchorage. "To go from that to where I have in the past two years, it was a huge learning curve."

After her appointment, Murkowski took over her father's Senate office and took on most of his staff.

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"I didn't have the opportunity that I would have liked to develop my team," she said. "Instead, I was in a situation as a brand-spanking-new senator. I needed to learn the ropes of what was going on in Washington so that I could be effective for my constituents."

She'll have the luxury now of creating her own team, but the surroundings won't be so nice. Offices are assigned by seniority, and father Frank had a couple decades of it.

Murkowski said she expects to move into much smaller digs.