Gov. Mike Dunleavy is right. This isn’t the end of the world. But his proposed budget would mean the end of the Constitutional Budget Reserve and the beginning of the end of the Permanent Fund.
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If Mike Prax wants to become a competent legislator, he needs a mentor, not David Eastman. Prax and Eastman were the only two legislators to oppose emergency funding to deal with the coronavirus crisis.
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Lucinda Mahoney, nominated to be revenue commissioner, says the state has set up a “Chinese wall” to keep her from being informed about any cases worked on by her husband, an oil company lawyer who has been involved in key cases against the state.
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The state’s financial situation has become much worse in the past week. The economic and health threats point to a calamity and there is no coherent response from the governor, who would spend all state reserves except the Permanent Fund within the next year.
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The state needs bold leadership to deal with the crisis created by oil prices, the stock market, the coronavirus and the threat to the tourism industry and other businesses. What we have here is more than a momentary glitch. What we have here is a governor running from the recall.
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On “Meet the Press” Sunday, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said the words that no one in the Alaska tourism industry wanted to hear. “Don’t get on a cruise ship.”
Our political, community and business leaders need to recognize that the worldwide spread of the corornavirus has triggered an oil price war that will soon drain all state savings except the Permanent Fund.
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Those of us who believe in right-size government can tell that a job shouldn’t exist if the state can’t explain how the newly hired employee is going to occupy her working hours, earning $135,168 a year.
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The governor promised a "deep dive" into the awarding of the no-bid contract to the grandson of a major benefactor. Even the shallowest of dives into the document pool shows that the state violated procurement regulations designed to prevent insider dealing.
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Because so much remains unknown about the transmission of the coronavirus disease, the Legislature needs to maintain monitoring of cruise ships in Alaska waters this summer and reinstate the Ocean Ranger program.
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