Sen. Dan Sullivan, during his speech to the Legislature, exaggerated his role in the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act and didn’t mention that he opposed the bill until it was clear that the measure would be approved by the full Senate.
Sullivan, who is running for reelection in 2026, became a born-again champion of the bill after it was approved.
Read MoreAlaska politicians are looking at all this and saying once again that a pipeline is closer than ever. What they aren’t saying out loud is that their new confidence is based on the dream that Trump’s blackmail threats will work.
Read MoreAmong the renewable energy projects on an Trump hit list is a $50 million grant to back a major energy storage project in Healy for the Golden Valley Electric Association, the news site Popular Information reports.
Read MoreThere was a lot of competition, Sullivan’s was one of the dumbest statements from anyone in the U.S. government, with Sullivan claiming the contents of the leaked information about attack plans demonstrated the competence of Team Trump.
Read MoreBarbara Haney did repeat and amplify Suzanne Downing’s lie that the Fairbanks protest was the work of imported characters brought to the Golden Heart City specially for the occasion.
Haney did this in a limited way on Facebook under her own name and more directly on X, formerly known as Twitter, where she does not use her real name but self-identifies as “Steamboat Landing.”
The Fairbanks protest was “protest tourism” and was “paid for by the 50501 fund—the Bernie Bros,” Haney/Steamboat Landing said.
Read MoreMarvin Roberts has won his case against the City of Fairbanks for wrongful conviction. The settlement is $11.5 million.
Here is a press release from his attorney, Fairbanksan Mike Kramer, of the law firm Kramer and Cosgrove.
“I don’t think any amount of money will be enough to justify what I endured as an innocent man in prison,” Roberts was quoted as saying.
“This settlement, however, give me freedom with my life, and most importantly, more time with my daughter and my parents, who supported me throughout the nightmare.”
Read MoreThe president of the school board and the city mayor complained at length on KFAR Monday about my blog post headlined “Alaska Republicans invent lie that 200 Fairbanks protesters were imported actors.”
In the process, School Board President Melissa Burnett and Mayor David Pruhs misrepresented the contents of that blog post. Now I admit the headline could have been toned down, but nothing in that blog post was inaccurate.
Read MoreFairbanks Assembly Member Barbara Haney promoted this Alaska Republican Party nonsense about someone, somewhere spending tens of thousands of dollars to import 200 Outside actors to take part in a Fairbanks protest.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan said that he’s been through more stressful environments than having elected officials “asking me questions that were clearly drafted from some far left group.”
This comment about questions legislators asked him Thursday tells me that Sullivan is out of touch with a significant number of his constituents and does not understand that many Alaskans are worried about the chaos created by President Trump.
Read MoreSpeaking to reporters in Juneau Thursday, Sen. Dan Sullivan left no doubt that he blames Sen. Lisa Murkowski for the disastrous decision to put Josh Kindred on the federal bench. He takes no personal responsibility for his role in backing Kindred, wanting Alaskans to forget that Sullivan predicted Kindred would be a fantastic judge.
He did not name Murkowski as he complained about Kindred, just as he did not name federal Judge Sharon Gleason, when he attacked her as doing unimaginable damage to Alaska with rulings he doesn’t like.
He said he has a “red line” that he won’t cross when it comes to supporting new judges and that he will block anyone he thinks will be like Gleason.
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