The prepared statements from Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan about Trump’s insurrection provide a real contrast—Murkowski displayed leadership and size up Trump for what he did to try to overturn the results of the election. Sullivan played word games, hiding behind another in the endless series of term papers his staff produces when he tries to cover all of his political bases.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy’s plan for giant $5,000 dividends, with no fiscal plan, would set a course to wipe out the Permanent Fund earnings reserve, ending future dividends. He is the king of bad-faith arguments.
Read MoreThe Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority did not want to hear from the public about the plan to spend $35 million in state money on pre-construction work for the proposed Ambler Road. It succeeded.
Read MoreThe confusion created by the deceptive Dunleavy press release, the lack of disclosure by AGDC and the misleading coverage by Alaska news organizations has to be cleared up if Alaskans are to avoid fooling themselves once more about the financial challenges of any pipeline.
Read MoreThe state Department of Administration does not need to be spending $88,400 to put a right-wing political campaign operative in place as a “communication specialist” for the next year.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy has been paying a Washington, D.C. public relations consultant $4,000 a month to promote his image in right-wing media circles.
Read MoreWilliam Consovoy, the Virginia lawyer who claimed President Trump could kill someone and not face prosecution as long as he remained in office, has collected nearly $600,000 from the Dunleavy administration to pursue the failed anti-union crusade, now under its third attorney general.
Read MoreGiven his improper efforts to interfere with the independent judiciary two years ago, Tuckerman Babcock doesn’t belong anywhere near the Alaska Judicial Council.
Read MoreThere is no Dunleavy fiscal plan other than unsustainable spending—which won’t last long because the easy money is almost gone—a story that belongs on the front page of every Alaska newspaper and in every newscast.
Read MoreIt’s not even a plan. It’s a press release straight out of Bizarro World asking the feds for billions in subsidies. The news coverage of this debacle ought to make that clear, but I doubt it will happen.
Read MoreThe project is founded on the dream of attracting support and major backing from the Biden administration, which seems unlikely. If there is any chance of selling the idea that a federal subsidy is in order, Dunleavy’s campaign that Biden and others are trying to destroy Alaska is going to destroy the chance for success.
Read MoreThere is an easy fix the state can make—decouple the state corporate income tax law from all changes in the federal law, but the governor and Legislature are dawdling. About $70 million of the loss is from oil companies.
Read MoreThe billions for a pipeline to Fairbanks are supposed to come from unnamed private sources and the federal government, said Dunleavy, the same guy who claims the Biden administration has declared war on Alaska and wants to destroy the state. Without details, this is a press release pipeline, the kind that exists in the world of imagination.
Read MoreThe truth is that the fund grew by $4.8 billion in 2020, making this a lie of from $5.2 billion to $6.2 billion—which would put Dunleavy in first place as the author of the biggest lie in Alaska history.
Read MoreI think it was the real Dunleavy who spoke his mind to his Texas audience, while the Dunleavy who spoke to Alaskans last week was the politically modified version—stiffly delivering a speech in which he attempted to give no ammunition to his political opponents. It was written by his handlers to help keep the recall at bay.
Read MoreThe biggest scam at the heart of the so-called Dunleavy “fiscal plan” is that $1 billion in magic beans is going to appear on July 1, 2022 to solve Alaska’s financial problems.
Read MoreIn what sounded like a tuneup for a big section of his State of the State address, Gov. Mike Dunleavy claimed that the Biden administration, banks, environmental groups and others who want to preserve Alaska’s wild country have declared “war on Alaska.”
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan blames the new president, as well as the big banks, for federal discrimination against oil companies and their employees. This is his way of trying to avoid talking about climate change, carbon emissions and the threats they pose to the world.
Read MoreDespite the big announcement from the Dunleavy administration about its Pebble appeal, the state is not eligible to file an administrative appeal of the Pebble mine rejection, only the Pebble mine can do that. It’s more of a state appeal for publicity.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan voted against Janet Yellen to lead the Treasury Department because she is not a cheerleader for the fossil fuel industry.
