If the Costello mailer, a partisan document, is acceptable because she has not filed to run again in 2022; and if the Revak mailer, a partisan document, is acceptable because he filed a letter of intent that did not include the name of a candidate, this shows the mighty slim threads on which attorney John Tiemessen hangs his conclusions.
Read MoreUnder the faulty logic of independent counsel John Tiemessen, it is possible to use public money in any amount to target or support legislators who have not declared plans to run again.
Read MoreDunleavy blames his staff for the actions and says the communications targeting legislators were done without his knowledge or approval.
Read MoreIn a press release sent to Alaska newspapers Friday, Administration Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka claims there have been “questions and misinformation” about the Tandem Motion contract I have been reporting on for the past few weeks.
Read MoreIf Alaska news organizations are taking up the governor on his offer to ask about Clarkson, they should demand the exact legal authority under which Dunleavy says he has to keep his mouth shut. The personnel act doesn’t apply.
Read MoreAt the Dunleavy COVID-19 show Tuesday, the governor’s office banned participation by Anchorage Daily News reporter Kyle Hopkins, fearing that he would ask Dunleavy about when he first learned about Kevin Clarkson’s 558 text messages to a low-level state employee half his age.
Read MoreTwo of the high earners on the Tandem Motion list of workers earned master’s degrees this year, but one was working as a barista in Washington in 2018 and another was working as a “boat mate” in Florida for the first seven months of 2018.
Read MoreThe Tandem Motion contract illegally transfers work that should be conducted in Alaska by state employees to a Seattle company and the contract should be cancelled, the Alaska Public Employees Association charges.
Read MoreUnder terms of the Dunleavy plan to outsource state personnel management work to a small Seattle company, eight people—some of them with limited professional experience—are in line to collect more than $200,000 each for working six months.
Read MoreThe former general would have Alaskans believe that his real concern was not with preserving his carcass, but in protecting the identity of the young woman, half his age, on the receiving end of 558 of his text messages.
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