What Dunleavy did not say at his latest staged press event was that he secretly tried to get the Legislature to do away with the special primary election for the U.S. House race by passing an emergency bill to amend the election ballot measure approved in 2020. Instead Dunleavy tried to belittle a reporter who was just doing his job. The Legislature refused to do away with the special primary election.
Read MoreDunleavy has been complaining about the refusal of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and other banks to finance Arctic oil and gas projects for years. He’s also been promising that he would do something, but hasn’t. Now he wants to go after the banks under false pretenses.
Read MoreThe Watergate scandal was closing in on that March day in 1973, but President Nixon loved to plot strategy against enemies real and imagined. He told Rep. Don Young, who had been a Congressman for one day, what should be in his first newsletter to Alaskans and he also said Alaska Democratic Sen. Mike Gravel was a “rat,” who didn’t belong in the Senate.
Read MoreLegislators who set up the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation more than 40 years ago would be appalled by the claims from Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s attorney general that legislators have no business investigating the firing of one of the most important people in state government, the former executive director of the corporation.
Read MoreThe Permanent Fund trustees and Permanent Fund employees would be wise to start cooperating with the Legislature in getting to the bottom of Angela Rodell’s firing. If not, they don’t deserve to be trustees of the fund or employees of the corporation.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy administration and the Alaska Permanent Fund Board of Trustees, led by Craig Richards, are now threatening legal action to stop a legitimate legislative investigation of the firing of Angela Rodell, claiming this is political interference. Dunleavy, Richards and the rest are playing the arrogant card, a foolish decision on their part, damaging the reputation of the permanent fund.
Read MoreThe convoy radicals in Washington, D.C. have turned on Sen. Dan Sullivan, attacking him as an enemy of the people, with the main Alaskan involved in the protest ranting and raving that Sullivan is a coward because he didn’t agree to a livestream video on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
Read MoreThere is a master conspiracy at work for “social engineering,” according to Dunleavy, who goes on Fox News to say Biden wants to punish the American people with high prices: “The purpose behind this, obviously, is to drive us into a green world quicker than the green world itself is ready for.”
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy continues to ignore the state law that prohibits the use of “state funds, facilities, equipment, services or another government asset or resource for partisan political purposes.”
Read MoreDunleavy directed the attorney general not to appeal the court decision that struck down the state law, but his office never revealed that it was his call to drop the case. Attorney General Treg Taylor even filed a document with the federal court which contained the lie that the state dropped the appeal because it was possible the state would lose the case.
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