Among the gems in the 30-day state financial reports filed by candidates is a curious line item: Gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker is no longer using the Portland, Oregon polling firm he used last cycle, nor one that has history of polling in Alaska. Instead, he has turned to a New York and Florida-based Schoen Research LLC, run by a former advisor to President Bill Clinton.
The amount spent on polling by Walker is likely some of the highest spending on polling in this election cycle in the governor’s race, and appears to be the reason why he is shapeshifting into a pro-abortion candidate.
Doug Schoen, principal of the firm, calls himself a Democrat dedicated to increasing bipartisanship and sats he was an advisor to Clinton and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was an ally of former Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz. Bloomberg, through his philanthropic interests, gave $1 million to Anchorage to set up a climate change and equity project called “Solutions for Energy and Equity Through Design Lab, or SEED Lab.” Berkowitz then endorsed Bloomberg for president.
But Schoen doesn’t appear to have much history of his own in Alaska politics. Schoen does a lot of history in polling to push the abortion agenda. One of his main areas of focus is to try to persuade voters to favor abortion by telling them that most abortions in America are actually done through the morning after pill, and that when that is explained to voters, they soften their stance against abortion. Much of the Schoen Twitter feed has ideas on how to use the abortion question to elect more Democrats this cycle. Tweets, such as the one that follows, are standard issue for Schoen:
Walker has paid the Schoen Research firm $93,500 for polling this election cycle, with a possible objective of increasing Walker’s chances with Democrats who support abortion and swing voters who are all over the map on the issue.
Walker, a former Republican who now runs as a loner candidate without a political party, served for four years as governor before being harshly judged by voters in 2018. This is his fourth run for governor. He ran as a pro-life candidate in 2010 and 2014, and was mushy on the issue in 2018, but has since developed a strong alliance with Democrats and the polling is telling him what he needs to do this time around — be pro-abortion.
Although he withdrew from the ballot on Oct. 19 of 2018 and endorsed Democrat Mark Begich for governor, Walker still got 2% of the vote two weeks later. So he knows there are about 5,757 voters who are still with him.
This year, Walker is going back to the Democrat well, telling voters that after ranking him first, they should rank Democrat Les Walker second. Walker and Gara are campaign allies, but Gara has the endorsement of Planned Parenthood, a coveted endorsement for pro-abortion candidates.
And that’s where a company like Schoen can come in and do push-polling to help craft the narrative for Walker.
Among clients that Schoen has helped with his company and his associated company Schoen Cooperman Research in New York are well-known Democrat candidates such as Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and entities, such as the “vote yes” on Maine’s ranked choice voting ballot initiative in 2016, and anti-Second Amendment legislation.
Walker used Patinkin Research out of Portland, Ore. for polling during his last run for office four years ago. That company produced a result for him that showed that he was winning. It appears Patinkin wasn’t really cut out for polling Alaska’s elections accurately, but the company had no way of knowing that their candidate would simply quit, so there’s no real way to know if Patinkin was close to the mark.
Hard to imagine Walker hosted a fundraiser in his home in 2010 for the statewide ballot measure to ensure parents had a right to simply be notified when their 15 or 16 year old daughters were considering abortion. Too many people, Cathy Giessel included, are “evolving” in the wrong direction. Proverbs 24:11 comes to mind in terms of accountability.
Look at the actions of sleazy Bill Walker. NOT his campaign rhetoric. He doesn’t know whether to be a Republican, Independent, Democrat, pro-abortion, pro-development, etc, etc candidate.
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Bill knows he’s in trouble with voters. His lapdog, Scott Kendall is desperate to get Bill votes, from anywhere. Kendall is a known cheater.
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Voters now know better about Walker, as exercised at the polls in August.
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Walker is a Liar. A PFD thief. A traitor to Alaska’s energy sovereignty. A party-switcher on-demand. A friend to pedophiles. He has YET to even attempt to explain the Byron Mallott pedophile episode, that Walker resigned over in 2018.
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Bill Walker is not trustworthy. Look at the people
who support him and endorse him. Egomaniacs like Walker himself, who think they are important, more important than ordinary Alaskans.
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REJECT Bill Walker. REJECT!
Agree with Marla. Walker’s position on pro-abortion is in line with his old political partner, Byron Mallott. That is, sometimes abortion is necessary to hide the evidence of a pedophile.
Walker is a sick puppy.
Mallott was the pedophile soulmate of Bill Walker who self-aborted. Walker is the ex-governor who covered it up and is trying to get in one last trick or treat with Alaskans.
Walker continues to evolve into an ever slimier swamp creature. I don’t know how anyone can stand him, let alone vote for him.
Bill “China” Walker.
54 percent in 2020 via pill, good up to seven weeks. Then why are liberals wanting such late term abortions? Seven weeks seems fair; late term, not so much. I have no further position
Grandpa Munster.
I know Dunleavy is the favorite to win, but with RCV and counting that apparently takes weeks, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Walker or Gara “win.”
In light of his secret deals with Peoples Republic of China officials, one wonders whether the “loner candidate without a political party” might actually be backed by no less than the Chinese Communist Party.
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This is the same CCP generationally dedicated to economic and military dominance over Americans they haven’t been able to kill outright with fentanyl.
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One might reasonably ask whether China Bill Walker’s people are the same CCP who directly, or through proxies like BlackRock, can be expected to do whatever’s necessary to maneuver Alaska’s government officials into some sort of debt trap involving artificially cheap natural gas, real estate, and most or all of Alaska’s Permanent Fund.
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Can’t happen here? Draw your own conclusions:
(1) blackrock.com/ca/investors/en/market-insights/discover-the-china-opportunity?switchLocale=y&siteEntryPassthrough=true
(2) mustreadalaska.com/gasline-chatter-ramps-up-as-blackrock-exec-talks-up-alaska-gas-project-with-cnbcs-jim-cramer-on-mad-money-show/
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Who’ll stop China Bill Walker’s CCP from getting what they want? See how the Walker-Biden timelines coincide in 2017. Americans have no idea what was promised, contracted, or given away, for which they’ll have to foot the country-busting bill somewhere down the road. The ominous conclusion is… no one.
(1) nypost.com/article/hunter-biden-china-timeline-business-ties/
(2) mustreadalaska.com/bill-walker-had-once-signed-mou-for-gas-contract-to-sinopec-which-is-now-delisting-from-ny-stock-exchange/
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Throw in truckloads of parts for Alaska’s dead-baby industry, and a state election system which seems so easily compromised by mail-in voting, proprietary Dominion vote-tabulation gear, ballot harvesting, corrupted voter rolls, Zuckerbucks, ballot harvesting, and election “observers” who’ve no clue what they’re observing… maybe China Bill’s got more going for him than people think, maybe this is a wake-up call which Alaska’s chapter of GOP Inc., better damn well heed if they want to stay in business.
Poll this Walker is a thief and tax happy.
Great photo of Bill Walker above. He looks like a devil about to do Alaskans dirty,…….again.
He does look sinister. He and the child-molester Mallott made a good couple.
Walker: the look of a man who has revenge in his heart.
Unfortunately, he probably will win with a small percentage of actual votes just like like the congressional election. The conservatives have too many candidates in all the elections this year and the left have only one. They know how to use their new system, while all we do is complain about it.
I wish he would just go away. He is nothing but bad gas that you want to pass. He already has made Alaska suffer and his return will do nothing but seek to put the final nail in all of our coffins.
Just leave us alone HillBillery.
Actually, Kerry, his running mate Drygas had the bad gas. The photo proved it as she leaned hard into it. Walker is the gasbag.
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I’ll be going with Dunleavy! That is no wonder, Walker is a loser!
Calling the polling a “Poll” is a mis-nomer. All the “polls” I’ve taken lately are to sway my vote by “telling” me their candidate’s views, or the lies about the opponent, then asking me if I change my mind. There must be another word for these “polls.” Suzanne, perhaps you can come up with the correct word.
Walker probably just put the last nail in his coffin. This won’t sell well.
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