Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka wrote that a student at her church who could not speak any Chinese suddenly found herself able to speak fluent Chinese while on a mission trip to Hong Kong. But the ability to speak Chinese left her when she got back on the plane to fly home. This was an example of the “gift of tongues,” Tshibaka said.
Read MoreIn Alaska, Kelly Tshibaka leads the list of candidates following Trump’s lead who won’t commit themselves to accepting the results of the election and continue to spread lies about the 2020 election.
Read MoreIn a campaign tactic identical to what it is doing in Alaska, the Republican Governors Association has set up a front group in Michigan to spend money on its favored candidate under false pretenses.
Read MoreAce right-wing investigator John Solomon introduced Kelly Tshibaka on his TV show March 1 by saying: “You have an amazing story. Your parents were born in Russia. You emigrated here. You’ve become a leader in Alaska.” What’s surprising is that he didn’t go on to announce that Tshibaka could see Russia from her house.
Read MoreThe humble origin brag is a mainstay of Kelly Tshibaka’s campaign. “We are literally a family that went from homeless to Harvard,” Tshibaka said in 2020 in an interview with right-wing politician Jim Minnery, a slogan she also tried out with other right-wing groups. Along with the fake claim of being homeless, she almost always repeats the fake claim that no one else in her family attended college before she did.
Read MoreWhile complaining that Alaska doesn’t get enough money from the infrastructure law, Kelly Tshibaka and Nick Begich the Third also claimed the law spends too much and is creating inflation the nation can’t afford. With this, they have earned themselves another place in the Hall of Hypocrites.
Read MoreThe Alaska Public Offices Commission couldn’t decide whether the decision by the Republican Governors Association to create a $3 million bank account and call it an independent group was allowed under Alaska law, so the commission punted, calling for more information and future deliberations after the election.
Read MoreKelly Tshibaka released a copy of the two-sentence letter that she says exonerated her of all claims made against her in an investigation by the National Reconnaissance Office in 2011. The letter does not exonerate her. The letter says the matter is closed, which is not the same thing.
Read MoreVoters don’t have to understand or accept Kelly Tshibaka’s religious practices, but they should at least know what Tshibaka preaches.
Read MoreBecause the documents filed in this case reveal that “A Stronger Alaska” is an empty front, this should be an easy thing for the Alaska Public Offices Commission to decide. But that requires the ability to ignore most of what the Dunleavy support group lawyers said during their day-long effort to distract and confuse the commission.
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