“Mr. Wood’s contracts with the state do not render him ineligible for appointment any more than other members of the Alaska Judicial Council with contracts under which they are entitled to payment by the state,” wrote attorneys Claire Keneally and Robert Kutchin on Taylor’s behalf.
This legal reasoning would not be out of place in the third grade, where a child breaking the rules defends himself by claiming that the other kid broke the rules and got away with it.
Read MoreSens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan could have tried to prevent RFK’s confirmation, but they sided with ignorance and arrogance in elevating this crackpot to a position of power. Kennedy is in Alaska this week and Alaska senators are helping him spread his anti-vaccine nonsense by what they choose to say and what they refuse to say.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy, who has excelled in making state government less efficient, has ordered state agencies to declare that natural resource permit applications should be approved automatically if the state misses a deadline to take action.
The oil companies, the mining companies and the cruise ship companies will be happy to hear of Dunleavy’s carte blanche initiative.
It’s the latest terrible idea from Dunleavy, contained in an administrative order that is even worse.
Read MoreThe Big Lie from Gov. Mike Dunleavy about public education in Alaska is that those who oppose him only care about money, while he cares about “policy,” the word he repeated three dozen times Saturday in a whinefest after 45 of 60 legislators voted to put $50 million more into public schools.
Read MoreProving one again that he doesn’t have a clue about how to work with people, Gov. Mike Dunleavy chose to pick a needless fight with the Legislature instead of writing a workable plan to create a new Alaska Department of Agriculture.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy has proven he is not serious about education, which is why the Legislature should vote to override his vetoes and end the wasteful special session as soon as possible.
Read MoreSen. 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:
Read MoreJordan 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.
Read MoreSen. 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.
Read MoreTrump 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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