If the Costello mailer, a partisan document, is acceptable because she has not filed to run again in 2022; and if the Revak mailer, a partisan document, is acceptable because he filed a letter of intent that did not include the name of a candidate, this shows the mighty slim threads on which attorney John Tiemessen hangs his conclusions.
Read MoreUnder the faulty logic of independent counsel John Tiemessen, it is possible to use public money in any amount to target or support legislators who have not declared plans to run again.
Read MoreDunleavy blames his staff for the actions and says the communications targeting legislators were done without his knowledge or approval.
Read MoreIn a press release sent to Alaska newspapers Friday, Administration Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka claims there have been “questions and misinformation” about the Tandem Motion contract I have been reporting on for the past few weeks.
Read MoreIf Alaska news organizations are taking up the governor on his offer to ask about Clarkson, they should demand the exact legal authority under which Dunleavy says he has to keep his mouth shut. The personnel act doesn’t apply.
Read MoreAt the Dunleavy COVID-19 show Tuesday, the governor’s office banned participation by Anchorage Daily News reporter Kyle Hopkins, fearing that he would ask Dunleavy about when he first learned about Kevin Clarkson’s 558 text messages to a low-level state employee half his age.
Read MoreTwo of the high earners on the Tandem Motion list of workers earned master’s degrees this year, but one was working as a barista in Washington in 2018 and another was working as a “boat mate” in Florida for the first seven months of 2018.
Read MoreThe Tandem Motion contract illegally transfers work that should be conducted in Alaska by state employees to a Seattle company and the contract should be cancelled, the Alaska Public Employees Association charges.
Read MoreUnder terms of the Dunleavy plan to outsource state personnel management work to a small Seattle company, eight people—some of them with limited professional experience—are in line to collect more than $200,000 each for working six months.
Read MoreThe former general would have Alaskans believe that his real concern was not with preserving his carcass, but in protecting the identity of the young woman, half his age, on the receiving end of 558 of his text messages.
Read MoreThe story shouldn’t end with Clarkson’s resignation. The actions and inaction of Gov. Mike Dunleavy deserve examination. The biggest questions are why Dunleavy kept Clarkson’s suspension a secret and why he wasn’t fired months ago.
Read MoreCara Griffith of Seattle, who last year worked as a subcontractor and a volunteer for the state, is to make $500 an hour under the Dunleavy plan to outsource state jobs, collecting $532,000 over the next six months.
Read MoreThe real record of the past 18 months shows that the campaign to put the Alaska Psychiatric Institute in private hands with a no-bid contract was flawed from the start, driven by ideology. The Dunleavy administration has wasted money and time hiding its mistakes. And no one has been held accountable..
Read MoreThe handling of the proposed state contract by the Department of Administration with Tandem Motion makes a mockery of the state procurement process.
Read MoreFor the Alaska Congressional delegation, the bypass mail program is among the most treasured features of federal policy. Trump’s postmaster general blindsided them with his plan to eliminate the program.
Read MoreRepublican candidates promoting completely unworkable schemes and giant Permanent Fund dividends are hardly conservatives. Many of those who did well against incumbent Republicans promoted some version of the fiscal fantasy that Gov. Mike Dunleavy championed in 2018.
Read MoreWith this bad legal advice, Dunleavy is free to keep insisting that there is no need for any unpopular statewide mandates on masks and crowds and commerce. Local governments can handle all unpopular mandates, allowing the governor to stay above the fray.
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Both contracts would outsource state jobs under the guise that the pandemic makes these moves necessary. The plan would shift work now being done by state employees to private workers.
A Fox News host tried to toss a bewildered Trump a lifeline regarding his administration’s announcement approving oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Monday, but Trump didn’t recognize the name of the place.
Read MoreThe three of them can’t find any reason to get angry at Trump for trying to limit voting by mail and force the post office into insolvency.
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