Before he quit the Legislature to run for governor, Mike Dunleavy should have applied himself to examining the state budget. Had he done so, maybe he wouldn't be spreading a fable about one element of state spending that is obvious to anyone who has ever looked into the subject.
Listen closely to former Sen. Mike Dunleavy as he speaks with conviction about the state budget and oil prices. He rattles off numbers like a desperate timeshare salesman, which makes it hard to tell which statistics are real and which are imaginary.
Read MoreRepublican Mike Dunleavy can always get a laugh when he says the most important campaign question is about how tall he is, but it's no joke that he has failed to produce a coherent plan for state finances.
Sen. Dan Sullivan described McCain as his mentor and close friend. But Trump went on mocking the dying McCain at rallies and Sullivan stayed silent.
Read MoreMy wife and I drove north to Fairbanks on the Parks Highway Monday from Cantwell and while we never saw any signs of the Alaska State Troopers, we saw plenty of reckless drivers hitting 80 mph or 90 mph, expressing their conviction that no one would stop them for speeding.
Read MoreAt one point Sen. John McCain wondered aloud about how Alaskans felt about being put on welfare as the recipients of unwarranted federal earmarks.
Sen. Tom Begich, brother of gubernatorial candidate Mark Begich, responded to my post complaining about the failure of both Begich and Republican Mike Dunleavy to offer a sensible fiscal plan.
Former Sen. Mike Dunleavy and former Sen. Mark Begich have this much in common—both are pandering to the public about the Permanent Fund Dividend and paying for government services.
Read MoreThe ACLU and the Dunleavy shadow campaign are seeking to have a judge overturn the state law against billboards enacted by voters in 1998.
Read MoreAlaska Sen. Dan Sullivan is one of eight GOP senators questioned by Vox who isn’t interested in digging into the allegations against President Trump made by his former attorney, Michael Cohen. No surprise there.
Read MoreOn the day that his former campaign manager and his former lawyer became felons, the leader of the Republican Party ranted about exploding windmills and pipelines and a great deal of other nonsense.
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