You may have noticed that the three Republican candidates are on the run from the record of Gov. Mike Dunleavy.

They have nothing to say about the shape Alaska is in after nearly eight years of Dunleavy’s watch, except that Alaska is headed in the wrong direction.

They won’t say that Alaska is better off today. The only politician making that claim is Dunleavy.

Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins mentions the incumbent more than the GOP candidates, always in the context of saying that Dunleavy hasn’t worked with other people, refuses to listen and has not tried to find solutions and common ground with the Legislature.

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I don’t care that Mary Peltola yells at her employees and sometimes says stupid things in the heat of the moment. Politicians say dumbass things all the time in private, though prudish press coverage makes it appear that no one swears or screams at the people around them.

What I care about is this: Donald Trump is destroying the country and Sen. Dan Sullivan is with him all the way.

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Everyone needs a secret attorney and a mystery accountant like those telling former attorney general Tregarrick Taylor that if he doesn’t like a law he should ignore it.

They are the unknown experts who told the Republican candidate for governor that he did not have to reveal that he received $69,000 in free travel on his state disclosure forms.

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With diesel fuel at $6.66 a gallon in urban Alaska thanks to Trump’s war in Iran, Sen. Dan Sullivan is trying to salvage his reelection campaign by jumping on the Trump bandwagon to ban U.S. exports of diesel until the war ends.

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If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to “help” Sen. Dan Sullivan’s sagging fortunes by visiting Alaska on Bribe Force One, expect the same tired shtick from the old guy.

The Man of Gold will brag about himself, pause for a moment to lie that he won the 2020 election, then resume the boasting marathon.

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HOSPITAL CAMPAIGN: The tiny print on some new ads for Sen. Dan Sullivan featuring numerous shots of Fairbanks Memorial Hospital says that Steve Frank is not speaking for the hospital foundation when he speaks about the hospital. But most people won’t read or notice the fine print.

Frank is the treasurer of the Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation and a loyal Sullivan supporter. Injecting the hospital into the Sullivan campaign is a mistake.

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If Kyle Reardon is confirmed as a federal judge for Alaska, every court decision that he will make during the rest of his life dealing with matters of the law, truth and fact—which means every one of them—will be have to be measured against his inability to tell the truth about the 2020 election while testifying before the U.S. Senate.

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If you missed the municipal candidate Q&A sessions Friday, KUAC has posted them on its website. You can listen to them here.

This is one of the best chances for voters to become more informed about the candidates and what they would like to do if they are elected on Tuesday October 6.

This is a real public service by the League of Women Voters, KUAC and the Daily News-Miner. It should be an example for public radio stations elsewhere and for Alaska Public Media to follow.

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For all of their many faults, they are not as uninformed and clueless as Bernadette Wilson, who is the clear frontrunner in that category. She is close to the top of the all-time register, a candidate for the Hall of Fame.

She leads the league in saying she has “bold ideas,” while never saying anything bold or coming up with with anything resembling an idea.

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I don’t care much about resolutions recognizing commemorative months, but the overreaction of school board candidate Jaimee Coon and assembly candidate Miguel Ramirez to this routine school board resolution recognizing LGBTQ month deserves a public discussion before the October 6th election.

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