The new members—appointed by newly minted assembly presiding officer Aaron Lojewski—came to the meeting unprepared and unaware of the work that was done over the last year-and-a-half by the six former members dumped by Lojewski, a climate change denier.
Read MoreThe borough assembly named tour guide Aaron Lojewski presiding officer last week. He wasted no time after the meeting in allowing a little power to go to his head, unceremoniously dumping the members of the Climate Action Committee who have worked for months on a draft plan for the borough. They did nothing wrong. They put in long hours over many months trying to come up with a reasonable plan for the community. This is not the right way to treat people.
Read MoreI welcome the editorial Sunday in the Anchorage Daily News, which says Kelly Tshibaka "is spinning what can only be called lies about the need for recounts and lawsuits. This is a dangerous tack to take, elevating ego and personal ambition over the health of our democracy.”
Read MoreFormer President Trump has forgotten Kelly Tshibaka’s name. In an unhinged rant attacking Mitch McConnell and lying about election results in Nevada, he referred to her as “Kelly S.”
Read MoreTshibaka, who has been a Christian pastor and a resident of Washington, D.C. for most of her adult life, has repeated many lies throughout her campaign. She is continuing true to form after Election Day, suggesting that nefarious forces are out to get her. She needs money, she said.
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The narrow margins that separate the two parties in each House will make it far more difficult to just dump the Ranked Choice Voting system and overturn the will of the voters.
I believe the readers of this blog need no encouragement to vote, so we’ll skip that. I have 10 final items to mention about the 2022 elections in Alaska, however.
Read MoreThere is no shame in serving as an intern for one of Alaska’s senators. Thousands of young people have done it over the years, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
There is shame in a candidate for one of the highest offices in the United States misrepresenting a summer internship as a real job, spreading the notion that she was tight with Ted Stevens.
Read MoreFrom the start of her campaign until the end, Kelly Tshibaka has been lying to Alaskans about how Deb Haaland became Interior Secretary under President Joe Biden.
Read MoreSenate candidate Kelly Tshibaka wrote that a student at her church who could not speak any Chinese suddenly found herself able to speak fluent Chinese while on a mission trip to Hong Kong. But the ability to speak Chinese left her when she got back on the plane to fly home. This was an example of the “gift of tongues,” Tshibaka said.
Read MoreIn Alaska, Kelly Tshibaka leads the list of candidates following Trump’s lead who won’t commit themselves to accepting the results of the election and continue to spread lies about the 2020 election.
Read MoreIn a campaign tactic identical to what it is doing in Alaska, the Republican Governors Association has set up a front group in Michigan to spend money on its favored candidate under false pretenses.
Read MoreAce right-wing investigator John Solomon introduced Kelly Tshibaka on his TV show March 1 by saying: “You have an amazing story. Your parents were born in Russia. You emigrated here. You’ve become a leader in Alaska.” What’s surprising is that he didn’t go on to announce that Tshibaka could see Russia from her house.
Read MoreThe humble origin brag is a mainstay of Kelly Tshibaka’s campaign. “We are literally a family that went from homeless to Harvard,” Tshibaka said in 2020 in an interview with right-wing politician Jim Minnery, a slogan she also tried out with other right-wing groups. Along with the fake claim of being homeless, she almost always repeats the fake claim that no one else in her family attended college before she did.
Read MoreWhile complaining that Alaska doesn’t get enough money from the infrastructure law, Kelly Tshibaka and Nick Begich the Third also claimed the law spends too much and is creating inflation the nation can’t afford. With this, they have earned themselves another place in the Hall of Hypocrites.
Read MoreThe Alaska Public Offices Commission couldn’t decide whether the decision by the Republican Governors Association to create a $3 million bank account and call it an independent group was allowed under Alaska law, so the commission punted, calling for more information and future deliberations after the election.
Read MoreKelly Tshibaka released a copy of the two-sentence letter that she says exonerated her of all claims made against her in an investigation by the National Reconnaissance Office in 2011. The letter does not exonerate her. The letter says the matter is closed, which is not the same thing.
Read MoreVoters don’t have to understand or accept Kelly Tshibaka’s religious practices, but they should at least know what Tshibaka preaches.
Read MoreBecause the documents filed in this case reveal that “A Stronger Alaska” is an empty front, this should be an easy thing for the Alaska Public Offices Commission to decide. But that requires the ability to ignore most of what the Dunleavy support group lawyers said during their day-long effort to distract and confuse the commission.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan’s memory fails him when it comes to openly supporting Sen. Lisa Murkowski because Sullivan fears Donald Trump and is afraid to cross the former president. This is striking, considering that Sullivan won’t be on the ballot for four years and he claims to be a good friend of Murkowski.
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