In Alaska, the race to replace Rep. Don Young is a bit like the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, unpredictable but not nearly as neat or orderly.
Two weeks ago no one saw a vacancy in the Alaska U.S. House seat, just as no one saw St. Peter’s beating Kentucky in the first round.
Since nature abhors a vacuum, we now have 50 candidates running for Alaska’s only seat in the U.S. House.
Read MoreThere is no time to waste in setting reasonable limits on campaign donations in Alaska. The 2022 campaigns are moving quickly and right now Alaska politics is open to the highest bidder.
Read MoreBy ADAM FEDERMAN
Nearly four weeks into a gas leak on Alaska’s North Slope, state agencies involved in the response have yet to provide any details on what caused the event or an estimate of how much methane has been released into the environment
Read MoreTshibaka’s financial claims deserve real analysis as part of the coverage of her Senate campaign. In particular, Alaskans deserve to know whatever happened to the “Alaska Administrative Productivity and Excellence” project and whether the millions spent on that project were worth it.
Read MoreEnough already with the Dunleavy administration “profiteering” allegations aimed at financial institutions and the attempt to use the attack on Ukraine as a cover to go after banks that won’t finance oil and gas development on the North Slope.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court said the Eagle River decision for the state Senate pairings was "an unconstitutional political gerrymander violating equal protection under the Alaska Constitution,” and called for the redistricting board to try again.
The next few months will be chaotic and confusing in Alaska as those who aspire to replace the late Rep. Don Young in Washington, D.C. try to raise money and generate publicity for themselves with little time for either activity.
Read MoreWhat Dunleavy did not say at his latest staged press event was that he secretly tried to get the Legislature to do away with the special primary election for the U.S. House race by passing an emergency bill to amend the election ballot measure approved in 2020. Instead Dunleavy tried to belittle a reporter who was just doing his job. The Legislature refused to do away with the special primary election.
Read MoreDunleavy has been complaining about the refusal of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and other banks to finance Arctic oil and gas projects for years. He’s also been promising that he would do something, but hasn’t. Now he wants to go after the banks under false pretenses.
Read MoreThe Watergate scandal was closing in on that March day in 1973, but President Nixon loved to plot strategy against enemies real and imagined. He told Rep. Don Young, who had been a Congressman for one day, what should be in his first newsletter to Alaskans and he also said Alaska Democratic Sen. Mike Gravel was a “rat,” who didn’t belong in the Senate.
Read MoreLegislators who set up the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation more than 40 years ago would be appalled by the claims from Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s attorney general that legislators have no business investigating the firing of one of the most important people in state government, the former executive director of the corporation.
Read MoreThe Permanent Fund trustees and Permanent Fund employees would be wise to start cooperating with the Legislature in getting to the bottom of Angela Rodell’s firing. If not, they don’t deserve to be trustees of the fund or employees of the corporation.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy administration and the Alaska Permanent Fund Board of Trustees, led by Craig Richards, are now threatening legal action to stop a legitimate legislative investigation of the firing of Angela Rodell, claiming this is political interference. Dunleavy, Richards and the rest are playing the arrogant card, a foolish decision on their part, damaging the reputation of the permanent fund.
Read MoreThe convoy radicals in Washington, D.C. have turned on Sen. Dan Sullivan, attacking him as an enemy of the people, with the main Alaskan involved in the protest ranting and raving that Sullivan is a coward because he didn’t agree to a livestream video on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
Read MoreThere is a master conspiracy at work for “social engineering,” according to Dunleavy, who goes on Fox News to say Biden wants to punish the American people with high prices: “The purpose behind this, obviously, is to drive us into a green world quicker than the green world itself is ready for.”
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy continues to ignore the state law that prohibits the use of “state funds, facilities, equipment, services or another government asset or resource for partisan political purposes.”
Read MoreDunleavy directed the attorney general not to appeal the court decision that struck down the state law, but his office never revealed that it was his call to drop the case. Attorney General Treg Taylor even filed a document with the federal court which contained the lie that the state dropped the appeal because it was possible the state would lose the case.
Read MoreWhat they base this announcement about the value of the premium on is anyone’s guess, as they appear to have done no research on the topic and the column is on a level with a bar-room blather or campaign jabber.
Read MoreDunleavy is hoping the Senate will kill any legislation that sets reasonable limits on campaign donations, using the bogus excuse that there is no time to write a bill. That would allow Dunleavy to avoid vetoing the bill and facing direct political consequences during the campaign.
Read MoreAs the Alaska Public Offices Commission staff put it, “until the Alaska State Legislature takes action on this issue, there are no longer any individual-to-candidate; and individual-to-non-political party contributions limits for Alaska’s state and local elections.”
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