Gov. Mike Dunleavy is paying attorney John W. Wood $300 an hour as a consultant, violating a provision in the Alaska Constitution that says a nominee to the Alaska Judicial Council may not be on the state dime.
Since 2019, Dunleavy has given Wood no-bid contracts with a total face value of about $900,000, according to documents released by the state under a public records request.
Dunleavy should withdraw Wood’s illegal nomination to the judicial council immediately.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan and his mouthpiece, Amanda Coyne, are making it up as they go along, desperately trying to protect Sullivan from the consequences of his vote and hiding his broken promise about supporting public broadcasting.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy failed to follow the Alaska Constitution when he tried to appoint Alaska attorney John W. Wood, 79, to a position on the Alaska Judicial Council reserved for non-attorneys, Alaskans for Fair Courts says in a complaint filed in Anchorage Superior Court.
Read MoreJulie Sande, state commerce commissioner, hasn’t seen fit to reveal the existence of a $3 million state marketing plan to those who look on the state website.
All you can find on the commerce website is a note from late 2023 saying that the state intends to hire someone “to develop an initial marketing plan and advise on strategies to effectively market Alaska.”
Read MoreBy and large, the Dunleavy task force reports have not been translated into state policy because the governor failed to follow through.
Read MoreRandy Ruaro, the executive director of AIDEA, is now claiming that Northern Economics, the Anchorage company hired to conduct a $250,000 “independent” review of AIDEA, failed to complete the study.
AIDEA wants a new contractor to revise the Northern Economics “independent” report so that the economic analysis matches AIDEA’s view of itself.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreDunleavy 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.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreMillions 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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