$54 billion is the alleged total cost of the project. It is ludicrous to believe that South Korea would offer $54 billion for the project as Trump claims, especially since South Korean news organizations say there is no binding deal.
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This is nothing but a campaign stunt aimed at duping the voters in Alaska. It’s the latest version of “Mexico will pay for the wall.”
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A reader who has tried to engage with Sen. Dan Sullivan says his office is replying now with brief notes that are more to the point than the turgid term papers produced in the past.
But waffling and indecision remain the central feature of Sullivan’s communications about anything related to the Trump administration.
Read MoreVoting machines are more accurate that counting ballots by hand.
There is no real argument about that. But Barbara Haney and Tammie Wilson, followers of Trumpism, are claiming that we need to abandon voting machines in Fairbanks and rely on tired election workers to count everything by hand because they don’t trust the machines.
Next they will be calling to abolish the cash register, the electronic calculator and the abacus. Tinfoil hats will be mandatory at borough assembly meetings.
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According to Sen. Dan Sullivan, the war in Iran should keep going for as long as Donald Trump wants.
Congress has no power to stop him, according to Sullivan, who has voted 14 times to continue the war.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan, a rich man born to a rich family from Cleveland, is taking shots at Democratic challenger Mary Peltola for a picture someone took of her flying first class, claiming this puts “Alaska last.
This “man of the people act” posted on social media reeks of desperation. The leader of Team Sullivan has an estimated net worth of between $5 million and $12 million, which puts him in the top third of the U.S. Senate wealth rankings.
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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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