The most striking element of Sullivan’s presentation was his inability and/or unwillingness to talk about the president to perhaps the friendliest audience that he could have anywhere.
It’s bizarre that Sullivan would not address an audience of loyal Republicans—including what Sullivan called an “all-star” list of local co-hosts—about how proud he is to stand with Trump.
Read MoreThe lieutenant governor has only one job—other than looking after the state seal—and Nancy Dahlstrom isn’t getting the job done in supervising the Division of Elections.
In removing thousands of names from Alaska’s voter rolls, Division of Elections Directory Carol Beecher admitted to legislators this week, the state used old data that hasn’t been checked.
Read MoreHilcorp opposes the proposal that owner Texas billionaire Jeff Hildebrand be forced to start paying an oil tax that has always applied to ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil.
The proposal is “punitive” and aimed at Hilcorp and Hildebrand, according to one of Hildebrand’s Alaska executives.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal transcript of an friendly interview by Kim Strassel with Sen. Dan Sullivan has her pausing for an ad at one point and saying, “When we come back more with Dan J. Sullivan, Senator for Alaska about his race for reelection.”
The Journal audio has the correct middle initial, but it’s noteworthy that even a stalwart Wasilla supporter of Sullivan’s like Strassel can get the incumbent’s name wrong.
Read MoreOn November 19, 2025, the president of Glenfarne told legislators that the company was so optimistic about the Alaska LNG project that it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars of its own money to order pipe and get it shipped to Alaska.
This was supposed to happen before the state agreed on a property tax break.
The pipe was never ordered. The company did not spend hundreds of millions.
Read MoreState employee Tammie Wilson, a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly, has her own campaign organization she calls “Save the State.”
The largest donors to “Save the State” are Wilson and fellow assembly member Brett Rotermund, co-owner of Bulletproof Trailers.
Save the State from what?
It’s not a group saving the state from sleazy political ads and character assassination.
Read MoreIn a dumb diatribe against Sens. Bill Wielechowski and Cathy Giessel Thursday, Gov. Mike Dunleavy stumbled over an answer of sorts about why his gasline predictions from last fall turned out to be so wrong.
“Calculations,” he said.
Read MoreThere is a compelling and simple reason to end the Hilcorp loophole and do it in the gasline bill, one that nearly all Republican legislators and Gov. Mike Dunleavy are either unaware of or hoping that the public will never learn about.
State income from oil and gas production taxes would take a $220 million total hit from 2029 to 2032 under the gas pipeline plan because the oil companies would be able to deduct lease expenditures from their tax bills, according to the Department of Revenue.
Closing the Hilcorp loophole would help.
Read MoreDunleavy called Sen. Bill Wielechowski a “bullshitter” after a press conference Thursday night, following rejection of a compromise gasline bill that would have also closed the Hilcorp loophole.
Dunleavy also complained about Sen. Cathy Giessel and said those two senators are the problem.
“Wielechowski said he’d love to know specifically what the governor ‘thinks I’m bullshitting about,’’ the Anchorage Daily News said.
“Looking for a scapegoat is a normal response, so I don’t blame him for that,” Giessel told the Daily News. “Considering he’s been absent (from Juneau) this whole time, he wouldn’t know the Senate Majority views this as a priority.”
Read MoreAlaskans have had plenty of time to understand the Hilcorp loophole and how to plug it.
The compromise gas line bill up in the Legislature today would do the job. Ignore the moaning and groaning from Hilcorp and the members of oil company benevolent society.
Republican members of the Legislature are pretending that no one has studied or analyzed this matter, which is not true.
The gridlock in state government, enabled by Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his allies in the Legislature, has prevented the state from closing the loophole.
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