The new claim by Rep. Don Young, who is running against Alyse Galvin for Congress, that he changed his position on the "beer virus" only "when it became serious" is complete nonsense.
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When the Anchorage Daily News filed a public records request June 5 seeking communications between Clarkson and a state employee half his age, it was Clarkson who told subordinates in the Department of Law that he did not have them. The department never pushed back on the boss.
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Voting for Ballot Measure One is the most sensible step Alaska can take this fall toward a real fiscal plan for Alaska that strikes a proper balance. Ignore the scare talk. If there are elements of the plan that need to be tweaked, that can happen as early as 2023.
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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.
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Under 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.
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Dunleavy blames his staff for the actions and says the communications targeting legislators were done without his knowledge or approval.
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In 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.
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If 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.
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At 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.
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Two 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.
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