Attorney General Treg Taylor offered an absurd explanation Monday for his failure and the failure of Gov. Mike Dunleavy to insist on protecting the state and requiring a public interest waiver for former Chief of Staff Ben Stevens.
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If there is a real budget strategy by the governor for the ferry system or anything else, it seems to be one in which he hopes to keep his head above water until after the 2022 gubernatorial election.
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There is a state law that says for two years after a state official leaves public office, that former official cannot work on certain issues. This protects the state. It’s not enough for the governor and a company that hires a state employee to announce, as Dunleavy and ConocoPhillips did, that there is nothing to see here.
Dunleavy is comfortable attacking President Biden and big spenders in Washington, D.C., but he is not at all comfortable in admitting that his pipeline dream depends upon the cooperation of Biden and the big spenders in D.C. to provide a subsidy of $4.5 billion.
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ConocoPhillips wants Alaskans to believe Stevens will be the George Costanza of Alaska’s oil company for the next two years. It doesn’t pass the smell test to believe that Stevens will be cutting ribbons, handing out checks to charities, talking about the weather and never mentioning what levers to pull to defend Conoco's interests in Juneau.
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Brett Huber, former campaign manager and aide to Gov. Mike Dunleavy, testified under oath last fall that he was serving as a volunteer in the effort to defeat the initiative to reform the election process in Alaska.
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The unmentionable objectionables need to be identified by Murkowski and Sullivan, lest it be revealed that this was not at all about specifics, but the blanket wall of opposition built by Republicans.
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The most important slide of all was missing from the package of eight slides presented to the Senate Transportation Committee by Administration Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka—the one that detailed the increased costs to consumers by privatizing six offices of the Division of Motor Vehicles.
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It appears Lucinda Mahoney is more interested in holding the job of revenue commissioner than in doing the work of the revenue commissioner. She almost told the House Finance Committee the truth about the disastrous impact of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s failure to offer a fiscal plan.
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What happens when a judge who believes in the strict interpretation of the Constitution encounters someone who believes in a stricter interpretation? Time for the Shower scale.
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