The 85-year-old Young may claim to be the paragon of responsibility, but he didn’t act in a adult manner a year ago when he voted to explode the federal deficit and grant a giant corporate tax cut that mainly benefits the wealthiest people and institutions in the country.
Read MoreThe 2017 version of Rep. Don Young left no doubt about his views on spending billions for President Trump’s border wall. He said a wall would never work and the federal government had no business promoting it.
Read MoreFormer Sen. Mike Dunleavy keeps talking about cutting a $4.5 million state expenditure on a commuter rail study from Mat-Su to Anchorage. There is nothing to cut because the money was never appropriated.
Read MoreFormer Sen. Mike Dunleavy keeps saying he’s discovered a $200 million slush fund in the state budget. Anyone who spent years warming a chair in the Senate Finance Committee should know this is false.
Read More“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.
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