As with every other contentious topic during his 12 years in the Senate, Sullivan thinks that responding to critics of the war in Iran with an avalanche of words and digressions about the gas pipeline, ANWR, etc.—assembled by a committee of his employees—will bury readers so thoroughly that all recipients of the missive will surrender and beg for mercy.
Read MoreThe supporters of the campaign to repeal ranked choice voting are groveling before the world’s richest man as Elon Musk tries to buy a voting system that pleases him in Alaska.
With this move, the Republican campaign against ranked choice voting becomes an effort by Musk to buy a voting system in Alaska that meets with his approval.
Read MoreBut they failed to even mention the name of Alaska’s junior senator, who is running for reelection and is more important in this debate than Murkowski because Sullivan will cast the deciding vote to make Blanche the attorney general.
Read MoreSens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, Rep. Nick Begich the Third and Gov. Mike Dunleavy heaped effusive praise on Trump last fall for approving the Ambler permit, but never mentioned that it was a federal shakedown of private industry that made it happen.
Read MoreMost of the people who run for lieutenant governor in Alaska like to think they will be allowed to do more by the governor than run elections and maintain custody of the state seal. They will reinvent the role of the lieutenant governor. It almost never works out.
But in the case of Al Rowe, we really would have had a “new kind of lieutenant governor.” Exactly what kind is hard to say. Explosive? Combative? Impossible?
Read MoreSubmitted for your approval: The second-greatest ad campaign for a lieutenant governor candidate in Alaska history.
Read MorePerhaps auditioning for his next role at a Council on Foreign Relations event June 12, Gov. Mike Dunleavy meandered across a range of international topics with vague and superficial comments that Donald Trump would approve on Greenland, the war in Iran, relations with Canada and more.
What he said about the cost of the gasline, does not bode well for the project.
Asked about the fall elections and the U.S. Senate race, Dunleavy said he wasn’t sure what would happen, but claimed that the gasline would be a big issue.
Read MoreHere is a portion of the transcript, recorded for posterity by a Juneau reporter, of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s gasline emissions at the conclusion of the last special session.
Read MoreJust before the 1974 primary election in Alaska, Michael Carey sat down with a tape recorder to record ads by state and local candidates on KFAR and KFRB radio in Fairbanks.
The recording you can listen to here provides a good snapshot of the political situation in Alaska 52 years ago.
Read MoreEnstar, which is owned by TriSummit Utilities of Alberta, has opted to act like a political branch of the Dunleavy administration, focused on spreading hysteria about the gas supply situation in Southcentral Alaska instead of a solution.
Nothing the Legislature could do this summer will change the energy picture for this winter and beyond, contrary to the claims by Dunleavy and his allies.
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