Does State Budget Really Need Drastic Action This Year?
Many lawmakers clearly don’t agree with the the Governor, Alaska’s Future, Plan4Alaska, and our new friends at Our Alaska that Alaska’s fiscal sky is falling.
February 2016
Legislative Minority Offers Power Sharing To Majority
The Alaska Senate Democrats and Alaska Independent Democratic Coalition have outlined the proposal for a Caucus of the Whole in a letter that has been delivered to Senate President Kevin Meyer and Speaker of the House Mike Chenault.
Friday in the Sun!!! (Feb 5)
Lisa rakes in big cash in Seattle, more assembly candidates fundraising numbers, and there’s one big name Dem the Alaska GOP says they won’t be challenging. Its Friday in the sun.
What Your PFD Says About You… And Your Political Party
Now these conservative groups are not simply happy to take the PFD, they are its champions? I’d challenge any of those groups to define for me, please, exactly what conservative or Republican principle is furthered by preserving the PFD? Government handouts are good, so long as they are Alaska government handouts? The conservative hypocrisy is alarming.
Hadley Ends Run For East Anchorage Assembly Seat
Don Hadley will be ending his run for East Anchorage Assembly and instead will focus on a bid for the state house seat currently held by Rep. Max Gruenberg.
Energy Bill Blocked Over Flint Water Impasse
The energy bill championed by Senator Lisa Murkowski has been blocked in the Senate over concerns about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, the Associated Press reports
Some Legislators Spend A lot Of Our Money….On Themselves
There are some legislators that just don’t care. They spend our money with reckless abandon. They think they’re badasses, flying over here and over there, pocketing all the money we give them for office expenses, charging us more to relocate them than it would cost to just buy them a new car in Juneau. And they are crazy. They think they can bilk the good people of Alaska for it all and we won’t even notice.
Inside the Numbers: Number of Republican States Growing
Gallup’s analysis of political party affiliation at the state level in 2015 finds that 20 states are solidly Republican or leaning Republican, compared with 14 solidly Democratic or leaning Democratic states.
For Republicans, State Budget Is A Messaging Trap
Virtually every Republican legislator is messaging via newsletter, committee-question time, or posting a video on Facebook of some version of Revenue Commissioner Randy Hoffbeck’s line “the price of admission for new revenues is significant cuts.†But what is “significant†or “meaningful†when it comes to budget cuts?
Breaking: Democrat Challenging Giessel Drops Out
Hillary Morgan has sent an email to supporters saying she will be dropping out of her run for the East Anchorage/Hillside state senate seat.