“You bring up an outfit like a Ruger, or a Springfield or Remington to the state of Alaska, you’ll have jobs for generations,” said Mike Dunleavy, sounding like a candidate for governor of the Alaska gun club.
Read MoreYoung, Murkowski and Sullivan should reveal to Alaskans where they stand on the new lie by Trump that he wants a 10 percent tax cut for middle-income people before the election in two weeks.
Read MoreWhat Sen. Anna MacKinnon doesn’t admit is that the GOP majority in the Senate knew in early 2017 that Sen. Mike Dunleavy’s $1 billion budget-cut scheme was dumb, so they talked about a permanent cut of $750 million. Neither number was real.
Read More“There is a narrative that I want to close down rural schools,” former Sen. Mike Dunleavy said at AFN Friday, neglecting to mention that he created that “narrative” when he spoke at the Bible Baptist Church in Fairbanks.
Read MoreRep. Don Young gave challenger Alyse Galvin the old death grip, which is as much a part of his persona as his bolo tie. After a second or so, Galvin pulled back and said “That hurt. That hurts.”
Read MoreWith the exception of Gov. Bill Egan, no Alaska governor has ever been dealt a more difficult hand than Gov. Bill Walker, forced to deal with crisis from the start.
Read MoreIt has been less than a year since the giant GOP tax cut became law. If Sen. Dan Sullivan runs for re-election in 2020, that would be enough time to pass judgment on his prediction that it won’t add to the federal deficit.
Read MoreGov. Bill Walker, already facing the prospect of a loss at the polls, suffered what could be a campaign-ending blow Tuesday with the resignation of Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott.
Read MoreIn a forum in September with his Democratic challenger, Rep. Scott Kawasaki, Sen. Pete Kelly made a series of uninformed and false statements in trying to back up his claim that climate change science is a scam.
Read More“See, and that is what I call, Mr. Chairman, a bullshit answer. Military service,” Rep. Don Young said.
Read MoreThe campaign group masquerading as “Families for Alaska’s Future-Dunleavy” has no real connection to Alaska or its families.
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