Let’s not fool ourselves. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vision of Alaska “self-reliance” on the and his call to “think big” about the gas pipeline would be courtesy of the red, white and blue.
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The gas pipeline dream promoted by Gov. Mike Dunleavy would be a federal public works project unlike anything in Alaska history. As an opponent of big government, he’s trying to downplay the enormous federal subsidy.
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A year ago, Gov. Dunleavy said this about the Clark Penney contract: “To answer your question, we’re looking into all of the details surrounding that contract and other contracts. And once we are finished with our deep dive, we will come out and we will have a presser on it.” The long-promised “presser” (press conference) never happened.
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The prepared statements from Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan about Trump’s insurrection provide a real contrast—Murkowski displayed leadership and size up Trump for what he did to try to overturn the results of the election. Sullivan played word games, hiding behind another in the endless series of term papers his staff produces when he tries to cover all of his political bases.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s plan for giant $5,000 dividends, with no fiscal plan, would set a course to wipe out the Permanent Fund earnings reserve, ending future dividends. He is the king of bad-faith arguments.
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The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority did not want to hear from the public about the plan to spend $35 million in state money on pre-construction work for the proposed Ambler Road. It succeeded.
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The confusion created by the deceptive Dunleavy press release, the lack of disclosure by AGDC and the misleading coverage by Alaska news organizations has to be cleared up if Alaskans are to avoid fooling themselves once more about the financial challenges of any pipeline.
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The state Department of Administration does not need to be spending $88,400 to put a right-wing political campaign operative in place as a “communication specialist” for the next year.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy has been paying a Washington, D.C. public relations consultant $4,000 a month to promote his image in right-wing media circles.
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William Consovoy, the Virginia lawyer who claimed President Trump could kill someone and not face prosecution as long as he remained in office, has collected nearly $600,000 from the Dunleavy administration to pursue the failed anti-union crusade, now under its third attorney general.
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