New Alaska election director refuses to call out Trump's lies about stolen election

The new Alaska elections director, hired for the job with no experience running elections, is off to a bad start.

Carol Beecher, a Republican and longtime state employee, refuses to say whether she believes Trump’s lies about the “stolen” election, which have been thoroughly debunked.

Beecher, former head of the child support services division, says that Trump’s fraud claim is “not germane to my position as the director because my position requires that I’m impartial.”

Beecher, who donated to Trump’s 2016 campaign, should understand that the lack of evidence is “germane” to her position.

“I can’t speak to what happened nationwide,” she said, when asked about the 2020 presidential election, the Alaska Beacon reported. “I voted, I think that it was done in accordance to the law in Alaska. And that’s what I can speak to. I don’t know how the things went in the other states.”

She can’t speak the truth about what happened nationwide?

“When asked whether she agreed with Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent, Beecher said she would not ‘state an opinion on any of that,’” the Anchorage Daily News reported.

Beecher is using the standard code words of the Republican Party that allow Trump’s lies to fester.

Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, who hired Beecher, also claims she doesn’t know enough to say whether Trump is telling the truth.

Dahlstrom refused to say anything before the last election about whether Biden was fairly elected and Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s handlers shielded her from the public.

Dahlstrom claims that she didn’t know Beecher was a political contributor to Dahlstrom or that Beecher was a registered Republican because she didn’t look that up before naming her to the job, the Anchorage Daily News reported.

Beecher says she will stop making political donations, which is required by law for the elections director, but she will remain a registered Republican, which is allowed by state law.

"My political leanings and philosophy don't play into the decisions I make because when you're working for a state division you have to be impartial," she said.

Beecher began working for the state under Lt. Gov. Loren Leman in 2005. She had been director of the child support division since 2014.