The proxy vote that Rep. Don Young made while missing from Congress, opposing Trump’s impeachment, is illegal and a sham, according to a bold statement from Don Young circa June, 2020, who said he would never vote that way. A big reversal for Rep. Beer Virus.
Read MoreA key requirement in the state financial disclosure law can be ignored if a public official gets his or her spouse to write a letter claiming the public official doesn’t have any idea how much the spouse makes.
Read MoreThe Pebble appeal is probably already dead with the Biden administration. But Dunleavy will want to go to court on this, especially if he gets the $4 million he has asked from the Legislature for the elite statehood strike force of Outside contract lawyers.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan now says his fervent wish from way back was for Trump to accept the election results. But Sullivan waited to express this fervent wish until a day after the Trump terrorists stormed the Capitol, which leads me to conclude that it wasn’t his fervent wish until it was too late.
Read MoreSen. Mia Costello, a world-class opponent of the evils of Big Government, wants local government officials to face fines of up to $1,000 for attending illegal secret meetings.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy $6.3 billion withdrawal plan would reduce the long-term earning power of the Permanent Fund and expand future deficits by about $160 million a year. A sustainable withdrawal would be about $3 billion.
Read MoreSullivan and Murkowski have encouraged the Trump coup and the Republican terrorists, but they won’t take any responsibility for their political cowardice.
Read MoreOne of the enduring mysteries of the Dunleavy administration is the so-called “Alaska Development Team,” an effort that appears to have grown out of a campaign promise to recruit “distressed gun manufacturers” to build factories in Alaska.
Read MoreThe most serious unexamined question for Alaska’s news organizations is why the Dunleavy administration decided that frontline essential workers should be given a lower priority for vaccine access than medical professionals recommended in a 20-0 vote. This is all about the political power of those aged 65 and older.
Read MoreThat Sen. Dan Sullivan has nothing of substance to say about the Republican attempt to overturn the presidential election is in keeping with his practice of keeping quiet in the corner for as long as possible, sometimes allowing his underlings to make mealy-mouthed statements of inconsequence.
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