The gas pipeline dream promoted by Gov. Mike Dunleavy would be a federal public works project unlike anything in Alaska history. As an opponent of big government, he’s trying to downplay the enormous federal subsidy.
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A year ago, Gov. Dunleavy said this about the Clark Penney contract: “To answer your question, we’re looking into all of the details surrounding that contract and other contracts. And once we are finished with our deep dive, we will come out and we will have a presser on it.” The long-promised “presser” (press conference) never happened.
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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.
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Gov. 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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Gov. 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.
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William 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.
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Given his improper efforts to interfere with the independent judiciary two years ago, Tuckerman Babcock doesn’t belong anywhere near the Alaska Judicial Council.
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There 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.
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It’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.
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The 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.
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There 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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I 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.
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The 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.
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In 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.”
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Sen. 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.
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