The silence from the Dunleavy administration about the BP $5.6 billion sale to Hilcorp is alarming. Where is the report informing Alaskans about the public policy questions related to taxes, maintenance and the future of the pipeline?
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“It was a life based on service, not on the accumulation of money. America needs more people like that.”
—By Steve Cowper
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JB Carnahan was a Fairbanks fixture for nearly a half-century—a policeman, borough assembly member, Shriner, volunteer, Crimestoppers TV spokesman, businessman and one of the morning hosts on KIAK-FM.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy continues to be the governor of the education promise, abandoning one pledge after another depending upon the conditions of the moment and the audience, always acting as if he is not contradicted himself.
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What Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants is what Attorney General Kevin Clarkson wants—for the recall court case to be tied up as long as possible, hoping that the momentum for recalling Dunleavy will dissipate.
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Attorney General Kevin Clarkson, backed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, now wants to spend an additional $500,000 to $600,000 pushing his anti-union crusade. The Legislature should refuse to appropriate a dime.
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Attorney General Kevin Clarkson invented the idea that funding education a year in advance was improper. It was a political move to try to force the Legislature to appropriate money so the governor could veto hundreds of millions from schools. The scare tactic didn’t work.
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The Alaska attorney general understood better than anyone that he had no business deciding the merits of a petition to recall the governor of Alaska.
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Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson has lost another round in state court in his anti-union crusade. It turns out the $600-an-hour discount legal help he sought from President Trump’s lawyers, the same guys who say the president if above the law, didn’t help.
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What happened Monday was that Attorney General Kevin Clarkson, a political operative, tried to protect his boss from a process guaranteed in the Constitution, while dressing up a glorified Dunleavy press release as scholarly analysis.
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The recall campaign against former Gov. Wally Hickel and former Lt. Gov. Jack Coghill in 1991-93 was not at all like the campaign against Gov. Mike Dunleavy. The grounds for recall against Dunleavy are far more likely to prevail in court.
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We should know Monday or Tuesday if the Dunleavy administration will allow the Dunleavy recall campaign to proceed or if it will invent legal excuses to add court delays to a process that has already gone on too long.
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