The cornerstone of the Dunleavy plan is to get a constitutional amendment to cap state spending, keeping secret all details of what services would be reduced or eliminated to balance the budget. He’s not about to repeat the mistake he made in 2019 of specifying his plans to gut state government, which created the recall movement.
Read MoreRevenue Commissioner Lucinda Mahoney was either lying to legislators or lied to by Gov. Mike Dunleavy when she said that Dunleavy would support taxes if approved by the Legislature. He now says he won’t support any taxes approved by the Legislature without constitutional amendments to limit spending and require voter and legislative approval for taxes.
Read MoreDunleavy is pitching his amendment as one that would spend half of the percent of market value on dividends, half on government services, and up to half on PCE. This is the 50/50/50 plan. He is counting on people who can’t count.
Read MoreAn Anchorage judge soundly rejected the political justification created by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to stop Power Cost Equalization payments to more than 84,000 rural Alaskans faced with the most expensive electric rates in the country.
Read MoreThe Legislature is not going to approve new taxes when the governor is saying it’s entirely up to the Legislature to take the lead.
Read MoreMost Alaska news organizations have failed to make it clear in their coverage of the issue that this was a policy/political decision by Dunleavy. Most have said that the Legislature failed to approve the funding, which is not true.
Read MoreThe Alaska-Alberta railroad dream continues to fall apart. One of its chief “assets” is a decision announced on Twitter late one night last fall by former President Trump just after a $100,000-per-person fundraiser at which he was lobbied to push the project.
Read MoreIn 2019, the Legislature blocked Dunleavy’s proposal to end the medical program, but the governor is again trying to end funding for the program through the policy decision he made on the so-called “sweep.”
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“We are literally a family that went from homeless to Harvard,” Kelly Tshibaka said. Four years before she was born, her parents spent a brief period in a tent in 1975 during a severe housing shortage in Anchorage. They were not homeless. They were camping.
He supports the idea of people getting vaccinated, he says, but he always follows that up by saying, “It’s your choice.”
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