Republicans were shocked on Sunday when House Democrat candidate Walter Featherly, running as a nonpartisan, announced he had the endorsement of a major pro-business association known as Associated General Contractors. That’s the group that represents commercial contractors in the state and it generally goes either right down the middle or to the pro-business side of the political spectrum. It’s part of a national group that is decidedly more conservative than Featherly.
Featherly is far from the center, which is why his announcement took Republicans by surprise.
But evidently, Featherly was peddling misinformation. No sooner had he posted his pride in receiving the coveted endorsement, than he took that information down. Someone reached him and made a demand that he pull down the claim. There is no such endorsement for Featherly, who was caught peddling misinformation.
This is the same Walter Featherly who was recalled from the Anchorage School Board in 1992, after he and his collaborators on the school board, including his future wife, started holding secret meetings out of the eye of the public. He lost his seat in a landslide that year during the special recall election.
Featherly is running against Republican Rep. Julie Coulombe for House District 11. Coulombe has served just one two-year term for the South Anchorage district and is part of the Republican majority in the House, while Featherly has aligned financially with the Alaska Democratic Party.
The general election is Nov. 5, with early voting starting Oct. 21 and running through Nov. 4.
Featherly is also touting his “lifelong connections with the Native community.” What that really means is how much he charged in high legal fees to various Native corporations over the years when he worked for Holland & Knight. That should be investigated as well.
Is there such a thing as “low legal fees?” Every lawyer I ever dealt with charged high fees. The only question was, how effective they were.
Parents should not allow their children to view or listen to political campaign ads. Seeing and hearing these ads sets a bad example for them. These ads cause children to believe that it is OK to lie.
You’re right, only problem is that’s really impossible unless you strip your children with their phones and all the popular?? newsfeeds that give the false news. Since the news flash programs that squel before checking the “truth”, they be involved with the garbage spewed on the news. These political feeds are $$ making garbage.
One might suppose that the biography of the previous occupant of the White House proves a cautionary tale, a bedtime story on the scale of the Brothers Grimm.
Which biography? Obama penned several of them.
Featherly already has a sketchy record while in public office involving his recall in 1992. For this campaign, Featherly is apparently resorting to a ‘stolen endorsement’ tactic. Not only does this indicate he is a person who is dishonest, it more importantly suggests Featherly is not the brightest candidate around. Why lie about something obviously false and can be very easily ‘fact checked’? This means that Representative Coulombe is the obvious choice for District 11 on November 5th.
> who was caught peddling misinformation.
How about we stop peddling in the weasel words of the MIC and speak plainly. Like Alaskans.
Here I’ll fix it for you sd.
“Featherly lied.”
‘Slime bag’ is too kind a term for such creatures. Have no doubt, though, that this character has plenty of professional supporters.
“Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.” – H.L. Mencken
At this point claiming to be “non partisan” is an old leftist political trick. When I hear a candidate make that claim, I automatically understand it to mean too far left for the democrats.
Those leftist Democrats have a hard time with the truth. Independent? NO!
I know another certain candidate running for office on the left. Won’t mention any names. But they have lied to potential voters saying they are conservative to hurt his opponent. Anyone this dishonest does not deserve a job in public office.
And of course there is Schrage–who I will mention– who told me he represents all after I asked him if he was a Democrat when he came to my door. We know he heads up a Democrat caucus. So dishonest! They won’t tell you the truth!
Is that a swamp full of bottle brush black spruce you’re eyeing or a lone cottonwood, as the forest obscures examination of a single tree?
I have a friend in Juneau who ironically refers to leftist double-talkers as “feather merchants.”
Wayne, You and I learned the term” Feather Merchant” from our dear departed Social Studies teacher and Bad— War hero friend, Paul Sincic.
Who else uses the term? It’s a goodie and needs to be brought back into common use.
I remember Mr. Sincic, Oosik Puk. He first came to Alaska in 1937, after years of traveling around as a hobo. Here, in addition to being a teacher in Juneau, he had worked as a railroad “gandy dancer” laying track for the Alaska Railroad, on sternwheelers on the Yukon River, as a longshoreman, a grave digger and he founded the Skagway Museum. What an amazing life. He taught Alaska history at JDHS and yes, was a soldier in WW2 and a father of four. Although he seemed to be timeless, he died 26 years ago this week – on Oct. 2, 1998 — at Bartlett Memorial Hospital. Never to be forgotten, he lives on through his photography, which can be found at ‘https://www.sincicphotography.com . Thanks for the memories. – sd
And one of his adoptive sons, Jeff, is still kicking stateside.
Suzanne, I got to know Paul better after High School and learned more about his career in the Military through my study and questioning of him. He was hesitant to talk of those times, but I’ve learned his missions were the stuff of which WWII movie scripts are made. Capturing Enemy Officers behind the lines and so forth, (his collection of SS Paraphernalia and Lugar Pistols was amazing). After retiring from teaching Paul joined the Labors Union and did a stint High Scaling on the Skagway road project in the late ’70s, one tough old man!
Paul perfectly represented the Greatest Generation that you and I were blessed to know.
BTW, I am informed that Joe Geldhof uses the term “Feather Merchant” frequently, so it’s still in use.
Great photos, thanks.
If you are the best candidate for the office, why lie?
Birds of Featherly flock togetherly….
This reminds me of second grade at St. Peter’s school in Henderson, Nevada: “Liar, liar, pants on fire!” It comes so easy for them. They really are (D)ifferent – even if they’re lying about being Independents.
Josephson still has his fake police endorsement on his signs
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