Sen. Dan Sullivan’s memory fails him when it comes to openly supporting Sen. Lisa Murkowski because Sullivan fears Donald Trump and is afraid to cross the former president. This is striking, considering that Sullivan won’t be on the ballot for four years and he claims to be a good friend of Murkowski.
Read MoreNow we know that A Stronger Alaska doesn’t exist. It is simply part of the name of a checking account controlled by the Republican Governors Association. Since early 2021, the association has claimed to Alaska campaign regulators that A Stronger Alaska is a real organization.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy claimed during a rare statewide debate that he hasn’t shown up at 13 debates in recent months because of natural disasters, including the 2018 Anchorage earthquake, the COVID pandemic, fires, storms and other catastrophes.
Former Gov. Bill Walker and former Rep. Les Gara say the political disaster of the Dunleavy administration is the real catastrophe that has kept him far from the debate stage.
Read MoreIf 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.
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