The state is going to claim that “new information” has come to light justifying another lease sale press release and burst of publicity. But there is no new information.
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What Dunleavy won’t make clear to Alaskans is what he has made clear to extremist groups Outside—Dunleavy is among the minority of U,S. governors who have pledged to never ever raise taxes.
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The idea is eliminate the need for visitors to “burn” part of a day traveling from Fairbanks or Anchorage to Denali. And have 737-900 flights fly straight to the airport near Denali from Outside destinations. It would be a crippling long-term blow to the future of tourism in Fairbanks.
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The October Nenana land auction schedule has been dictated by the needs of the Dunleavy campaign. It’s a rush job that does not bode well for the long-term future of the dream to get 100,000 new acres of land into agricultural production over the next 30 years.
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Dunleavy and the state employees beholden to him for their daily bread protest that they are doing nothing wrong, but there has been plenty of proof to the contrary since last year.
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The Alaska Energy Authority’s promotion of the Alaska Cargo and Cold Storage project, a venture at the Anchorage airport, deserves a complete and thorough public examination.
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Former State Rep. Mary Peltola ran a positive campaign and managed to win the temporary seat in the U.S. Congress, which will help make her a strong contender for the next two-year term in the fall.
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Sarah Palin is a “super-sharer of unreliable sources,” according to a new study of Facebook posts by candidates for Congress by the Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University.
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She took God’s promise to mean she would be elevated from her job as acting inspector general of the Federal Trade Commission to be named to the job on a permanent basis. She was one of two finalists for the position. The other finalist was Roslyn A. Mazer, a former boss of hers who Kelly had clashed with in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Tshibaka did not get the job. Mazer did.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy had one of his state-paid campaign workers try to intimidate the Anchorage Daily News and its reporters, deflecting attention from Dunleavy’s unethical practice of using state employees and contractors as “volunteers” on his campaign.
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Sarah Palin may win the race to become the temporary Congressman, but Mary Peltola received the most first-place votes, giving her credibility and statewide recognition she lacked in the spring.
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“You guys know, a lot of you know that I was under federal investigation, some ‘friends’ of mine accused me falsely of committing fraud in the government and what should have been a conversation with my supervisor ended up being a year-long investigation that was horrific," the Rev. Kelly Tshibaka told her Washington, D.C. congregation in 2014.
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The political atmosphere at the event is one in which Alaska’s U.S. senators, state politicians and state employees pushing the Dunleavy reelection campaign are comfortable. It was a mistake for the university and the Wilson Center to include no one who dares raise any uncomfortable questions about the mining industry and its future in Alaska.
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Whoever wins the special election to serve the final days of Don Young’s final term will claim to have an advantage going into the general election in November. But at least three other credible contenders will make sure to say that Rep. Temporary is not the Congressman or Congresswoman for All Alaska.
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Rest assured that Gov. Mike Dunleavy supports the November ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention.
And there is no doubt that Dunleavy wants to curry favor with former President Donald Trump by supporting Trump’s lies that he was robbed of the presidency in 2020. But Dunleavy refuses to come out and take a clear position on these and other matters, opting instead to keep on ducking.
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Tshibaka’s campaign should release the administrative findings that led to her 2011 federal job transfer. That’s one way of confirming her claims that she was exonerated, vindicated and that the investigation was a sham.
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Palin whined about the Murkowski and Begich “dynasties” in a fact-free and error-filled airing of grievances, repeating her tried and true right-wing applause lines. She mentioned Benghazi, “Crooked Hillary,” the missing emails, how “they” are always making false claims about Palin and how she has nothing to lose.
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The state Division of Elections should correct political flyers that falsely suggest that voters will be able to vote for more than one candidate in state legislative races in the Aug. 16 primary.
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I am scheduled to give a presentation Wednesday at 7 p.m. on “Ranked Choice Voting: Will it Work for Alaska?” at 7 p.m. in the BP Design Theater, Room 401. The theater is in the new Joe Usibelli Engineering Building.
There are a lot of names on the Aug. 16 ballot, but there is no need for moaning and groaning.
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It’s also no surprise that the companies say the project is a go even though the state transportation analysis—which Gov. Mike Dunleavy agreed to under public presssure—hasn’t started. The state hasn’t even selected a consultant to perform the transportation analysis.
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