Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, Rep. Nick Begich the Third and Gov. Mike Dunleavy gushed with effusive praise for Donald Trump’s social media post saying he had approved a disaster declaration for Western Alaska. But maybe they should withhold their praise until they see if FEMA delivers.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan, eager to curry favor with Donald Trump, is calling for the head of career prosecutor Jack Smith, claiming to be a fellow victim.
Smith is the special counsel who investigated Trump’s attempt to overthrow the government after losing the 2020 election. Senate Republicans, including Sullivan, have joined Trump’s campaign to get revenge on Smith, who secured two indictments.
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The stockholders of Trilogy Metals, including some billionaire investors, should help pay for the cost of the 211-mile private road off the Dalton Highway that would give an immense boost to the value of their mining claims.
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Suzanne Downing has failed to correct her false statement that MSNBC used protest footage from 2017 and claimed it was taken Saturday in Boston at the No Kings protest. This was a lie spread by artificial intelligence and accepted by her without question.
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Alaska politicians are asking that the federal government cover the entire cost of emergency assistance, suggesting that the state with an $83 billion Permanent Fund can’t afford to put up a dime to respond to the Western Alaska disaster. Everything the state is doing now should be reimbursed by the feds, they claim.
“In light of the extraordinary circumstances, and consistent with the action taken following Typhoon Merbok, we also request that the administration authorize a 100 percent federal cost share for emergency work during this recovery,” Sullivan, Murkowski and Begich III wrote to Trump.
Read MoreWillie Hensley, a board member of Trilogy Metals, sold 100,000 shares the same day he bought them, making more than $400,000 on those transactions—two days after Trump said he would put $35 million into the Ambler mining promotion—according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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“In sum: an immense disaster, one that’s wrought deep trauma on Western Alaska’s Indigenous residents and that’s raising existential questions about the future of their low-lying communities amid a changing climate and a tightening state budget.”
“The region sits on a broad, dead-flat plain next to the Bering Sea, and weather experts say they expect warming ocean temperatures to fuel more storms like the typhoon — which came just three years after another fall storm caused widespread damage.”——-Nat Herz, Northern Journal.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy told the Resource Development Council Thursday that he expects a big announcement to move forward on the Alaska LNG pipeline in two months, with construction starting next year. He would be shocked if the project stalls, he said.
This rosy view appears to be founded on the idea that Donald Trump will succeed in forcing Japan, South Korea and other Asian nations to pay for the pipeline, whether they like it or not. Dunleavy says that the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. and Glenfarne are telling him that there are no glitches that will derail the proposal.
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The governor and his employees are taking the position that Alaskans have no right to know what exactly happened to the $50 million and what the contract says.
Read MoreThe so-called “implementation strategy” for the arbitrary Dunleavy plan to eliminate 15 percent of regulations by the end of 2026 mentions requirements about continuing education for doctors as an example of the discretionary rules that should be reviewed for possible elimination.
Dunleavy and Dunleavy Chief of Staff Tyson Gallagher will object to that statement, claiming that they have not proposed cutting continuing education requirements for doctors.
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