If A Stronger Alaska is not paying its bills and the Republican Governors Association is actually writing the checks, all of the documents filed by the Dunleavy support group with the Alaska Public Offices Commission since February 25, 2021 are as honest as Herschel Walker’s police badge.
Read MoreOutside money has long been the main source of campaign funds in Alaska congressional races. Both Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Kelly Tshibaka are getting most of their money from Outside. The News-Miner should correct its headline to say, “Out-of-state money boosts Murkowski, Tshibaka campaigns.”
Read MoreOn Monday, the Alaska Public Interest Research Group and the 907 Initiative filed a detailed complaint about the Dunleavy support group financed by the Republican Governors Association. The complaint says the evidence supporting the allegations that numerous violations have taken place is “incredibly strong,” based mainly on sworn filings with the IRS and APOC from the RGA and its Dunleavy support group.
Read MoreIt appears that “A Stronger Alaska” is an empty front group for the Republican Governors Association, which told the Alaska Public Offices Commission it gave “A Stronger Alaska” $3 million. But IRS filings by the RGA show that it did not give any money to the Alaska group, which was created three days before a rule went into effects saying donors had to be identified.
Read MoreThe problem for Suzanne “Hounds of Hell’ Downing and Kelly Tshibaka is that the Mitch McConnell Super PAC attack ads are based on a real investigation by independent federal officials who found that Tshibaka billed the government for 596 hours of work that she wasn’t entitled to get paid for.
Read MoreThe University of Alaska is allowing itself to be used for partisan political purposes by taking part in this latest campaign event. UAF and UA officials should know that this is inappropriate and that they should divorce themselves from overt political activity with the incumbent governor. What’s wrong here is not the subject matter of the research—oil—but the timing of a Dunleavy event promoting it just before the election.
Read MoreTshibaka claims the state was a victim of fraud and that she gave the information to the attorney general’s office, but the Dunleavy administration did nothing about it.
Read MoreWhen Dunleavy agreed to stop pleading the Fifth Amendment and have his state-funded campaign respond to written questions from Alaska news organizations, the end result was another exercise in evasion.
Read MoreAfter having his state-paid spokesman announce his refusal to answer written questions from news organizations in July, Gov. Mike Dunleavy or his spokesman, Andrew Jensen, reversed their decision and replied to a set of questions from four Alaska news organizations. There has been no news coverage of Dunleavy’s reversal or of the Jensen/Dunleavy claim that Dunleavy had answered all important questions in the past so there was no need to do so again.
Read MoreThe two good Fairbanks school board candidates—Brandy Harty and Kaneisha Radgosky—did not respond to Mahatma Jim Minnery’s culture war quiz. Les Nichols and Melissa Burnett, on the other hand, have shown they want to bring sideshow zealotry to the Fairbanks school board, where it doesn’t belong.
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