Maybe the $25,000 is a token of thanks for taking the first step to remove former Sen. Hollis French from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Or maybe it was a reminder to the governor that he has a billionaire friend in Texas.
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“I will be homeless without these payments,” a Kodiak resident wrote legislators in 2017. “At 66 years of age, retired from almost 20 years of commercial fishing due to disabilities, this is a terrifying prospect for me!”
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The attempt by the Dunleavy administration to turn over the Alaska Psychiatric Institute to a private company without competitive bidding deserves an independent investigation by the Legislature.
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He promised he would not cut the ferry system, education spending or the University of Alaska. He promised to spend more on rural education and repeatedly stressed that budget cuts would be aimed at making everything more efficient.
“While I understand the reluctance to compare Alaska to the lower 48, I am confident that in the lower 48 there are many examples of institutions that created a plan and successfully implemented a value proposition for higher education that attracted both students and non-state funding,” Mike Barnhill said.
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Senate President Cathy Giessel is repeating bogus talking points from the Republican Party, downplaying Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s attempt to dismantle the University of Alaska.
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Alaska is not an appropriate environment for the extreme right wing/hate government cookie cutter model the governor has imported.
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“I was tempted to say that was one of the most dishonest presentations I've ever seen anyone give to the Legislature. But that is an overstatement. To be charitable, I'll call it grossly incomplete.”
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One of the magic elements in the Dunleavy budget for the University of Alaska is to shift $154 million from real money to Angel Bucks. The state won’t admit that the $154 million is imaginary. So much for the honest budget every Alaskan can understand.
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“We're doing this because the state is out of money and we need to balance our budget," said the temporary budget director.
Wrong answer, as Sen. Click Bishop said..
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