If the past is any guide, the Fairbanks news coverage of this debacle will be based on the press release from the state, which is pure campaign propaganda for Dunleavy and Fairbanks Mayor Jim Matherly.
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Amanda Holland, who held key positions in the Dunleavy administration on a temporary basis, is now one of the movers and shakers in a company called OrgShakers, a firm that received a no-bid contract from the Dunleavy administration worth $722,000.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy refuses to answer written questionnaires from Alaska news organizations, claiming he has such a long public record that news organizations can look up the answers on line. If you do that, you’ll find a long public record of evasion, deflection and political dodgeball.
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By relying on state-paid “volunteers” for campaign work and claiming that campaign tasks are state business, Gov. Mike Dunleavy has run his campaign for nearly a year and paid next to nothing for campaign staff.
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Vanity Fair writer T.A. Frank calls for a “reconsideration” of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a long piece in the Washington Post Magazine. He tries to elevate her decision to abandon the governor’s office in 2009 into a noble action. It’s nonsense.
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The fault for abandoning the Chena River State Recreation Site in Fairbanks rests with Gov. Mike Dunleavy, legislators who didn’t question the budget plan and city and borough officials who have failed to call out this mismanagement.
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Dunleavy has never answered the simple question of who in the governor’s office decided to reward Clark Penney with a no-bid contract. Dunleavy claimed he had no idea. Alaskans deserve an answer, especially now that Bob Penney has emerged again as a Dunleavy megadonor, giving $100,000 so far to the Dunleavy reelection campaign. Dunleavy’s brother in Texas, Francis Dunleavy, has given him $200,000 so far.
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The truth is that Kelly Tshibaka’s parents were not homeless when they moved to Alaska in 1975, no matter how many times Tshibaka repeats the lie. They were camping.
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Alaska news organizations have failed to examine Tshibaka’s two-year tenure as administration commissioner and neglected to challenge her robotic assertions that Trump had the 2020 election stolen from him.
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It’s no surprise that Sarah Palin swallows Donald Trump’s lies about who won the 2020 election, while Democrat Mary Peltola does not. But Nick Begich has refused to answer the question. He is trying to appeal to those who believe Trump’s lies without ever saying he believes Trump’s lies.
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