The news coverage of the oil price and production guesses fails to make clear that the state computes its guesses in a way that no private company, no investor, no utility, no agency, no economist and no competent person would use.
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The Anchorage Daily News and Alaska Public Media published news accounts Monday that failed to make this clear. They sanitized Bronson’s secret role and failed to dig into the conflicting claims about it.
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Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson said he “didn’t want his fingerprints” on the so-called “early treatment summit” held in Anchorage Saturday at Changepoint church, so he concealed the role played by his administration in setting up the event. In effect, he lied to the public.
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In a pre-election sermon last spring, the pastor of the Anchorage Baptist Temple denounced and ridiculed Forrest Dunbar, while endorsing Dave Bronson. The camera cut to Bronson in the audience as the pastor praised his political positions.
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The question arises because Prevo’s attempt to do at Liberty University in Virginia what he did in Anchorage—use a tax-free institution to boost the fortunes of elect right-wing candidates—is now at the center of a lawsuit filed by a fired senior vice president at Liberty. Scott Lamb was the spokesman for the university.
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I’m surprised that Tshibaka is still repeating this humble brag, perhaps expecting that Alaska news organizations will continue to do no real news ncoverage of her campaign.
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“I never intended for state resources to support their a partisan political purpose,” Dunleavy said a year ago, adding that his staff would undergo “the appropriate ethics training.” There are plenty of signs he is still using state resources for partisan political purposes, including the new state-funded campaign podcast he started Monday.
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The pro and anti Zaletel partisans seem to be talking about two different women, two different members of the Anchorage Assembly.
—By Michael Carey
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The governor and his allies in the Legislature will soon be saying that oil prices have solved all of the state’s financial problems once again, avoiding the political risk in tax talk. But oil prices have not solved all of the state’s financial problems.
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With the lack of diversity represented by Dunleavy/Meyer, someone other than Meyer is likely to take on the task of guarding the state seal and saying that Dunleavy is doing a great job.
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