Former Sen. Mike Dunleavy keeps saying he’s discovered a $200 million slush fund in the state budget. Anyone who spent years warming a chair in the Senate Finance Committee should know this is false.
Read More“You bring up an outfit like a Ruger, or a Springfield or Remington to the state of Alaska, you’ll have jobs for generations,” said Mike Dunleavy, sounding like a candidate for governor of the Alaska gun club.
Read MoreYoung, Murkowski and Sullivan should reveal to Alaskans where they stand on the new lie by Trump that he wants a 10 percent tax cut for middle-income people before the election in two weeks.
Read MoreWhat Sen. Anna MacKinnon doesn’t admit is that the GOP majority in the Senate knew in early 2017 that Sen. Mike Dunleavy’s $1 billion budget-cut scheme was dumb, so they talked about a permanent cut of $750 million. Neither number was real.
Read More“There is a narrative that I want to close down rural schools,” former Sen. Mike Dunleavy said at AFN Friday, neglecting to mention that he created that “narrative” when he spoke at the Bible Baptist Church in Fairbanks.
Read MoreRep. Don Young gave challenger Alyse Galvin the old death grip, which is as much a part of his persona as his bolo tie. After a second or so, Galvin pulled back and said “That hurt. That hurts.”
Read MoreWith the exception of Gov. Bill Egan, no Alaska governor has ever been dealt a more difficult hand than Gov. Bill Walker, forced to deal with crisis from the start.
Read MoreIt has been less than a year since the giant GOP tax cut became law. If Sen. Dan Sullivan runs for re-election in 2020, that would be enough time to pass judgment on his prediction that it won’t add to the federal deficit.
Read MoreGov. Bill Walker, already facing the prospect of a loss at the polls, suffered what could be a campaign-ending blow Tuesday with the resignation of Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott.
Read MoreIn a forum in September with his Democratic challenger, Rep. Scott Kawasaki, Sen. Pete Kelly made a series of uninformed and false statements in trying to back up his claim that climate change science is a scam.
Read More“See, and that is what I call, Mr. Chairman, a bullshit answer. Military service,” Rep. Don Young said.
Read MoreThe campaign group masquerading as “Families for Alaska’s Future-Dunleavy” has no real connection to Alaska or its families.
Read MoreGOP Chairman Tuckerman Babcock’s letter is accompanied by dishonest instructions telling Alaska voters they must be members of a political party to vote absentee.
Read MoreIf Sen. Dan Sullivan really believed that any allegation of sexual assault needs to be taken seriously, he would not have to retreat to weasel words about the FBI investigation. This was not an inspired choice on his part.
Read MoreSome years ago, when attorney John Dowd told FBI Director Robert Mueller he was representing Rep. Don Young, the FBI director said, “That crook?” according to Bob Woodward’s book on Trump.
Read MoreWhile his rhetoric grew more and more hostile to the United States government over the years, Joe Vogler kept claiming that he did not want to secede because that would be illegal.
Read MoreAlaska gubernatorial candidate Mike Dunleavy has not gone into detail on his idea of closing small high schools and opening regional boarding schools in hub communities. Giving wide attention to this proposal would touch off arguments throughout rural Alaska.
Read MoreSen. Pete Kelly deserves most of the credit for putting a 2014 financing plan together to fund the power plant project at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He also deserves a big part of the blame for a catastrophic decline in state funding for higher education.
Read MoreIn a story on how the three crime-fighting candidates for governor intend to pay for expanded public safety operations, the Anchorage Daily News allowed Mike Dunleavy to get away with his fiction about thousands of ghost positions in the state budget.
Read MoreYou don’t have to be a political scientist to understand that ConocoPhillips would love to have one of its employees in the executive branch in Alaska. Its presentation, which excluded risk factors and qualifiers that must be made when anyone talks about billions of dollars that have yet to be committed by a wide range companies, should be interpreted in that light.
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