Elections have consequences and although Alaskans favored President Donald Trump in the November general elections, the Democrats flipped three seats in the Alaska House from red to blue, enough for them to assert that they have control, with the help of two breakaway Republicans.
Alaskans can expect a lot of radical legislation to be passed by the House in 2025, and at least some of it will get through the Democrat-controlled Senate and make it to the governor’s desk. They may also see spending so high that it erodes their Alaska Permanent Fund dividend even further, as one of the big initiatives of the group is to bring back defined benefits for public employees.
According to the Democrat caucus that has the turncoat Republicans, it’s a done deal. The group released the names of committee chairs for the coming two-year legislative session.
Here are the members who will be in charge of the House when Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom gavels it in on Jan. 17, 2025:
Speaker Bryce Edgmon
Majority Leader Chuck Kopp
Rules Committee Chair Louise Stutes
Majority Whip Zack Fields
House Finance Committee Co-chairs Neal Foster, Andy Josephson, and Calvin Schrage, with Sara Hannan, Alyse Galvin, and Nellie Jimmie as members from the Democrat caucus.
Natural Resource Committee Co-chairs Maxine Dibert and Robyn Burke.
Education Committee Co-chairs Andi Story and Rebecca Himshoot.
Energy Committee Co-chairs Donna Mears and Ky Holland.
State Affairs Committee Chair Ashley Carrick.
Health and Social Services Committee Chair Genevieve Mina.
Labor and Commerce Committee Chairs Zack Fields and Carolyn Hall.
Community and Regional Affairs Committee Co-Chairs Donna Mears and Rebecca Himshoot.
Judiciary Committee Chair Andrew Gray.
Transportation Committee Co-chairs Ted Eischeid and Ashley Carrick.
Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Chair Ted Eischeid.
Joint Armed Services Committee Chair Andrew Gray.
Fisheries Committee Chair Louise Stutes.
Tribal Affairs Committee Co-chairs Bryce Edgmon and Maxine Dibert.
All our gov needs is 14 in the House or 7 in the Senate. Who will be the stalwarts of the 34th legislature?
Excellent point pertaining to sustaining a gubernatorial veto. Whether the Governor will act in a stalwart manner is worth contemplating.
Time will tell.
Fritz doesn’t matter because you know the politicians are it for their well-being in themselves not for the state or the people of the state. Their track record proves that.
Our houses need to understand who they work for. I don’t care about their caucuses. Time to settle this with the constituents.
“……….with the help of two breakaway Republicans……..”
The story of Alaska for the past half century. If the Republican Party can’t reform this practice they deserve what they’ve been getting.
With very few exceptions, what’s the difference between the two anymore?
The Democrats want to bankrupt Alaska in one massive go.
The Republicans want to stretch it out over the course of a couple years.
Either way, the same result.
We are so screwed. And we did it to ourselves.
Ask Devenger, you are correct. We are screwed. I just hope these people that voted for it and people are too lazy to vote. Pay the price and the price to be really high.
7.5% Port of Alaska tariff increase (Anchorage Ordinance 2023-34), 28% Minimum Wage increase (Ballot Measure 1), 4.6% increase in Municipality of Anchorage Budget, and an Alaska Legislature poised to run off-leash for two years with its most infamous clowns leading the circus. In the 1970’s increases like these – and others we can expect soon from the legislature – were the result of economic realities associated with unprecedented resource development activity. Reinstituting these increases absent similar activity does not pave the pathway to our future prosperity. Their preemptive deployment, in this case, paves the pathway to Alaska’s economic peril.
It is just a darned shame that these elected officials see their role as “destroy Alaska” instead of Make Alaska Great Again.
The worst part is the stupidity of the Alaska citizenry voting these Demons in due to successful marketing campains.
Stupidity rules Alaska. Our “elected” officials see it as a power and money grab, exactly what being a government employee is NOT all about.
Too bad it wasn’t a Republican majority elected!
Oh, wait.
The rest of the United States went conservative. Why is Alaska still stuck in the Dark Ages of radical liberalism? News travels slow to the 49th.
More of the same old, same old!
Republicans make up the majority of both the house, and the senate. Yet, this is the result? The Alaska Republican Party needs new leadership. Those who abandon the party need to face tough consequences.
Here’s the party leadership.
‘https://alaskagop.net/about/party-leadership/
Does Warfield need to be booted? Is she providing a strategic vision?
Carmela is essentially brand new to the role and has been working overtime since she took over to get the party back on track. Things take time and it takes awhile to turn a big ship.
With the failure of ranked choice repeal (and a chance to return to closed primaries), there’s no hope to correct this for at least another 2-3 years when we can vote on ranked choice again.
Thanks Anchorage… You are gift that keeps on giving.
You may want to ask Kodiak why they keep sending Stutes the Fluke back to Juneau? It’s not just Los Anchorage because Fairbanks also has their commies going south to Juneau. I also will confront anyone in the Eagle River/Chugiak area that is dumb enough to send Merrick and her dumbbut husband back there as well.
Alaska is officially blue. The MSB is the last Conservative borough and it is falling thanks to the infiltrators and the Conservatives don’t have the spine to go against the infiltrators.
Ashley Carrick is chomping at the bit to shut down black gold ore haul.
Time ro make sure you let your elected employees know what you expect them to do. We pay them, not we pay for them. Figure it out alaska
The only thing the gov can do is to reline veto or veto the whole legislation. The people keep voting these politicians in, then wonder why the governor doesn’t do more. He has no votes in the legislature, and is one against the legislature. Bad odds. He has to fight to maintain any semblance of a budget. Thanks, Anchorage and Fairbanks!
We are a state under the NEA…check out APOC reports
Great. Now that they have their ill begotten power, the Great State of Alaska will now be governed by perverted psychopaths and nihilist.
Aw yes we can blame the voters We need to also hold the Party leadership Accountable. Where were they as Party members spent weeks attacking a actual Republican to replace him with another “republican” (we shall see if she is).
Where were they helping to get rid of RCV (Rigged Communist Voting Scheme)?
Why do they fund RINOs?
The GOP Alaska it weak and has no real power because they are as Feckless as many of their candidates!
The situation we are in has taken many years to develop. Before Lt. Gov. Mallot was kicked out of office but he consented to the Dominion machines that we probably paid for and that we now have. Lt. Governor Kevin Meyer paid Soros and Zuckerberg money to clean up our voter rolls. Kevin accepted ERIC which was illegal. As a result the Soros gang has all of our voter information and can bombard our addresses with political cards that lie and and smear our good candidates and tell the military lies about RCV . The three states running this election was DC, Colorado and Texas. DC is the same swamp that got RCV into our state so that Lisa once again could cheat her way into office and be a thorn in the side of Congress. Our election process is broken so we do not know really if these candidates got in fair and square. We were ahead on the election until the numbers of ballots took a noticeable dive after day 12 when counting was going on in the villages. From then on the election continued downward for conservatives. The longer the count took the more suspicious the outcome. Concerning RCV, Governor Dunleavy can cancel RCV as his prerogative per Article 3, section 16 in the AK Constitution. Call his office at 907-465-3500 and do not let the receptionist defer to Nancy Dahlstrom as RCV is already in the system. Different subject pertaining to our governor. He has power he does not use to bring the courts in line as the executive branch. The courts have not ruled according to the Alaska Constitution and as the Chief Officer of Alaska, he could use his power. The unions are stealing the money from the rank and file to pay the democrats. The case that passed in 2018 in the Supreme Court that disallows union bosses to take money from the rank and file without their knowledge or permission. Union money in these races is overpowering the citizens. I am sure there are more illegal things happening. We have come to a generation when those elected to power do not care whether they can be trusted or believed. or not.
Just sayin’ – Alaskans did this to themselves.
Alaska is the last western state not 100% blue liberal. There’s been a well funded effort in the last few years to make AK just like WA, OR, and CA. Dark money, lawsuits, and Liberals moving in from the lower 48 are all conspiring to make us a Liberal state, all we need is a Democrat Governor then its mission accomplished.
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