A smart governor, a competent governor, would learn from his mistakes. A smart governor would realize that the problem is not with the school boards, school administrators, teachers and parents that he constantly attempts to belittle.
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Dunleavy called the special session not to deal with his recycled education bill or his recycled plan to create an agriculture department.
He called it as part of a scheme in which he is asking his Republican allies to refuse to show up for work and preserve his vetoes. It’s the most underhanded special session declaration in the state’s history.
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We need to hear an explanation from Crum, the governor and the Permanent Fund about whether Crum is advancing a plan to invest state money in this enterprise based on his membership in a mutual admiration society.
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Millions of Americans would lose health care coverage, the national debt would grow by trillions and billionaires would enjoy big tax cuts, but ignore all of that because Alaska got special treatment.
That’s what Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan want us to believe, that the state with 0.2 percent of the nation’s population is all that matters.
They want us to forget about their responsibility, and our responsibility, to the entire nation.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who had claimed she opposed cutting Medicaid, provided the deciding Senate vote on the Republican plan to slash Medicaid by $1 trillion, add $3.3 trillion to $5.3 trillion to the national debt and extend tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the country.
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The Republican Senate approved the $1 trillion cut to Medicaid, the $3.3 trillion increase in debt and the giant tax cut for billionaires Tuesday. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan voted for it.
Murkowski had said many times she opposed Medicaid cuts. But it appears she was lying.
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Two of the six Alaska kickbacks granted to Sen. Lisa Murkowski to buy her vote on the GOP/Trump big tax scam cannot be approved with a simple majority vote, the Senate parliamentarian ruled.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy, trying to cement his legacy as Alaska’s Worst Governor, is demanding that the Legislature stop asking what deals his administration has made with the oil companies on tax disputes.
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Alaska Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum still doesn’t understand his duties as a state employee responsible for overseeing vast sums of public money.
If he did, he wouldn’t be attaching the state Department of Revenue to a private investment fund run by a friend of his who lavishes praise on Crum as a “rising star” among financial wizards.
Read MoreThe Alaska Constitution is completely clear that three members of the Alaska Judicial Council are not allowed to be attorneys.
Attorney John W. Wood, 79, a longtime associate of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, does not meet the constitutional qualification, but Dunleavy appointed him to the council anyway.
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