This going-out-of-business sale has all the credibility of Rudy’s seminar at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Add it to the Trump catalog of Pyrrhic victories around the world, all of them as phony as a degree from Trump University.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s refusal to follow 35 other states and issue a mask mandate sends a strong signal to his supporters that wearing a mask is optional and that he isn’t serious.
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The bureaucratic language borders on indigestible and some of this is speculation, but the Dunleavy administration appears to be aiming at a future for state government in which key functions are privatized, with low-priced contract workers elsewhere in America or around the world.
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The state revenue department made a loan to an oil company LLC that didn’t get paid back. At the request of the revenue department, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority paid the principal and back interest, taking the loan off the hands of the revenue department. A new audit says the 2015 loan should never have been made.
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I suspect the reason the sale didn’t happen is that the industry made it clear to the Trump administration that a lease sale would not attract the giant bids envisioned by Alaska politicians and a sale could prove to be an embarrassment—not of riches, but of paltry bids from companies without financial muscle.
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The state doesn’t have a dime to spare, but Gov. Mike Dunleavy refuses to give up on the excessive contract with President Trump’s lawyer that has already cost Alaska more than $500.000, pursuing an anti-union crusade that is failing in the courts.
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It’s about time that the Alaska election division, supervised by Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, found out how other states are able to be more prompt in reporting vote totals and what steps they take to keep the process secure.
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In Ketchikan, editor Sid Charles made the same mistake in 1948 that the Chicago Tribune did. He published the immortal headline, “Dewey Next U.S. President.”
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Inadequate management by the state of Alaska—thanks to the political tradition of not caring about the election process for more than a few hours once every two years—means that the review and counting of absentee ballots in Alaska is delayed. The delay in counting the votes of more than 110,000 Alaskans is a serious failure.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy has refused so far to call a special session to extend key provisions of the COVID disaster declaration beyond Nov. 15, keeping up the pretense that it’s not his problem.
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