The law firm hired by the Dunleavy administration goes to great lengths to excuse Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his staff for failing to stop Adam Crum’s scheme to take $225 million from the Constitutional Budget Reserve and make long-term investments with it.
The administration paid $350,000 to an Outside law firm and received a report that blames the entire episode on Crum, absolving the governor and his staff.
Read MoreIt didn’t take a $350,000 contract with WilmerHale to determine that Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum failed to conduct “rigorous due diligence” when he decided to take up to $225 million in short-term money and make long-term investments with three giant companies he chose on his own.
Read MoreI would not be surprised if the Pentagon move to prepare Alaska troops to deploy to Minnesota is a ruse to cover for preparing an attack on Greenland.
Either action would be crazy, I know. And shameful.
Read MorePete Hegseth, who calls himself the war secretary, has handed Mary Peltola a powerful campaign weapon to use against Sullivan in the months ahead. The opponents of Nick Begich the Third should also send Hegseth a thank you note and flowers.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan, who has mastered the art of kissing up to Trump, hopes that Alaskans won’t notice because his kowtowing goes unreported in Alaska.
Read MoreIn a fitting capstone to the bungling of state finances that has marked Dunleavyland, the state has dumped the $50 million long-term investment made by former Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum at a loss of nearly $860,000.
Read MoreAG Stephen Cox, ignoring the conflict of interest created when he gave a $350,000 no-bid contract to a former employer, claims to have found conflicts of interest with two law firms targeted by right wing interests because they have lawyers who make political donations to Democrats.
Cox claims the action has nothing to do with politics.
Read MoreThe topic for today’s edition of Things Dan Sulivan is afraid to talk about: Greenland.
Read MoreSen. Lisa Murkowski, whose endorsement of Sen. Dan Sullivan set a world record for a lack of enthusiasm, correctly called out the Trump administration for the criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for failing to cut interest rates as much as Trump wants.
Read MoreAlaska lobbyist Ashley Reed, who has many clients who pay him a great deal of money to influence the state government on their behalf, gets $5,000 a month from Armstrong to claim that Alaska taxes are too high.
“If Hildebrand takes his money down there, and Bill, we don't have much left, except ConocoPhillips,” Reed said.
Such scare tactics have often worked in the past.
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