What’s surprising, if not shocking, is that Sen. Dan Sullivan thought he could freely take phrases and a few sentences out of context—from an easily available video of Dr. Al Gross—without getting caught.
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Ballot Measure No 1 should be approved for no other reason than it is the only political mechanism strong enough to force the Legislature to include oil taxes in the fiscal plan the state needs to preserve the Permanent Fund and state services.
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Fairbanks Senate candidate Marna Sanford has offered a sensible approach to the state budget. Republican Robert Myers, by contrast, is trying to sell a fiscal fantasy that even Mike Dunleavy wouldn’t have tried to pawn off on the public.
Sen. Dan Sullivan is lucky that Alaska news organizations have not asked him questions about his secret health care plan because otherwise it might be exposed as a meaningless pledge that leaves every important medical question unanswered.
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Rep. Don Young, the Trump administration, the U.S. Senate and others in the political establishment failed the nation with an incompetent response to the pandemic, creating a tragedy that is far from finished.
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When Trump claims next month that he is being cheated by a rigged election process, the years of obsequious treatment by Sen. Dan Sullivan, Sen. Lisa Murkowski and all other Senate Republicans will allow Trump to try to get away with it.
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Approval of the ballot measure raising oil taxes may be the only way to require that the Legislature include oil taxes in the fiscal plan the state has to adopt next year or else. The ballot measure can be amended in the future, a safety valve that removes much of the alleged risks cited by the Outside oil companies.
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Judge Susan Carney is under attack from right-wing extremists who claim that because they disagree with her on a few cases, she should be removed from the court, ignoring the weight of evidence that shows she has been a first-rate and even-handed member of the Alaska Supreme Court.
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The state is well on its way to wasting $700,000 on an ideological dream pitched by Kevin Clarkson, hiring Trump’s lawyer at $600 an hour to get an anti-union crusade to the U.S. Supreme Court. Acting Attorney General Clyde “Ed” Sniffen should cancel the contract now.
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Alaska Native corporations, many of which do business with the oil companies, hired a right-wing group in Washington, D.C. to produce an “independent study,” which is a smart business tactic. But it’s not independent and it’s not a study.
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A Lower 48 study about tax rates and the impact on oil wells drilled within 5 miles or 10 miles of a state line is hardly a solid foundation for a reasonable review of Ballot Measure No. 1, but the oil industry is making that claim.
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Ballot Measure No. 1, at today’s oil prices, will have a limited impact on taxes. Its most important feature, given current conditions, is to raise the minimum tax from 4 percent to 10 percent. That is a reasonable increase. And any fiscal plan that works for Alaska has to include an oil tax increase.
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.Nearly all of the money fighting the initiative is from four companies, but OneAlaska markets itself as a mom and pop enterprise created only to unify Alaskans and support their jobs, with no interest at all in what benefits corporate leaders in Houston and major stockholders who could never find Alaska on a map.
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The former governor and the former senator have only given $250 each to the opposition to Ballot Measure No 2, but they allowed false radio ads to be broadcast for weeks claiming they were two of the big money men behind the opposition.
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Four years ago on Oct. 8, Sen. Dan Sullivan said he withdrew his support for Donald Trump after the “reprehensible revelations” on the Access Hollywood tape demonstrated that Trump couldn’t lead by example in fighting sexual assault and domestic violence.
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Hidden beneath the tens of millions the oil companies are dumping into their propaganda campaign is another fact: North Slope oil production today is almost exactly what the state predicted in 2011 under the ACES tax system—486,000 barrels a day.
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In announcing the discovery of a brand new “principle” to advance a GOP nominee before the election, Sullivan has abandoned the central tenet of his old “principle,” that an election about the control of the White House, the Senate and the Supreme Court is near at hand and the Senate should wait to see the election results.
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Sean Parnell and former Sen. Mark Begich should come clean with Alaskans and announce that they want their names removed from the false ad disclaimer in the ads fighting the election reform initiative.
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“And while Tandem Motion’s website touts its experience in the private sector (and only mentions one employee, Cara Griffith), there is no evidence it has performed any projects as a prime contractor for any local, state, or federal government entity,” a global consulting firm said in its protest of the Tandem Motion state contract.
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“I’m not commenting. I didn’t see the debate,” Sen. Dan Sullivan said to a CNN reporter. when asked about Trump’s refusal to denounce white supremacists.