Sen. Lisa Murkowski could have been performing “Both Sides Now,” summing up opposition to Trump’s acceptance of a luxury airliner and her decision to do nothing about it with some classic weasel words:
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Jordan Shilling, who really should take his talents to the private sector, is supposed to be Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s point man who deals with the Alaska Legislature.
Note what he said below about legislators, calling them incompetent and claiming they “fucked up” state transportation funding. Dunleavy needs a new point man.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan has been in Washington, D.C. so long he doesn’t understand that complaining about having to spend too much time voting on Trump nominees is the sign of a pampered politician.
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Trump said on July 10 that anyone who supported public broadcasting “will not have my support or Endorsement.”
Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is running for reelection in 2026, cast a key vote a week later to defund public broadcasting along will all other Senate Republicans, except Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.
After Sullivan performed as instructed, Trump praised him as “a GREAT man.”
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy is considering calling off the special session he called for August 2, based on comments he made in phone calls to Senate President Gary Stevens.
Stevens told the Anchorage Daily News about Dunleavy’s dithering.
This is a chronic condition for which there is no known cure.
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Among his litany of lies Tuesday about elections and immigrants, Donald Trump again boasted that the Japanese are ready to spend tens of billions to build the Alaska LNG pipeline.
Speaking to cheering House Republicans, he claimed at the White House that “They’re forming a joint venture with us at, in Alaska, as you know for the LNG.”
“We’re gonna make a deal with Japan on the LNG in Alaska,” Trump claimed.
If you believed Trump about Mexico paying for his wall or if you signed up to buy a Trump phone or Trump cologne, his talk about the gas pipeline might sound plausible. For everyone else, consider the source.
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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.
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Sen. 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.
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Gov. 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.
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Julie 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.”
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