A group of Alaskans, inspired by Elon Musk and his team of analysts are the Department of Government Efficiency, has started DOGE Alaska.
The initiative was conceptualized in November by Jamie Allard, who has since recruited Alaska citizens dedicated to the same lean-government principles as the Department of Government Efficiency that is exposing government waste and fraud on behalf of President Donald Trump.
In her capacity as a citizen, and not in her job as a representative for Eagle River, Allard has brought on several people as the founding members of the group, including:
- Cathy Tilton, Wasilla civic leader
- Bob Griffin, former member of Alaska Board of Education
- Craig Campbell, former lieutenant governor
- Loren Leman, former lieutenant governor
- Dan Sullivan, former Anchorage mayor
- Jordan Harary, IT and AI
- Anna London, Mat-Su IT and AI
- Suzanne Downing, Somewhere in Alaska
- Portia Erickson, former community engagement director for Municipality of Anchorage
- Sami Graham, educator and former chief of staff, Anchorage mayor
- Jordan Schuster, Fairbanks businessman
- Jamie Allard, Eagle River
The group will be researching and encouraging others to research waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds in Alaska, and findings will be reported to the public. The group has no role in the administration of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, the Alaska Legislature, or the Trump Administration.
“Of course, it’s our sincerest hope that we don’t find waste, fraud, or abuse in our state budget, but considering that our state has the highest level of federal funding per capita, it’s likely that some federal and state funds are being directed to places where they have marginal benefit. We welcome people to research and send us what they find because this is going to be a group project for Alaska,” said Jamie Allard.
“We are all volunteers, and would love to work ourselves out of the job of tracking down misuse of public money,” she said. “There are so many people in Alaska who have stepped forward to help, and more will step forward, of that I am confident.”
The initial team can be seen here.
A website with contact information has been established. Alaskans who know of specific instances of misuse of funds can forward the information through the website.
To learn more, go to www.DOGE-Alaska.com
Elon/DOGE/Trump will destroy America’s reputation, and much of it is already gone thanks to them. Eviscerating foreign aid is a prime example and it’s only the start.
The America that created U.S.A.I.D. had an expansive view of itself in the world: defending freedom, buttressing international institutions, waging battles for the hearts and minds of peoples across the world — an effort that dovetailed with the civil rights movement at home. The administration that is cannibalizing U.S.A.I.D. has a very different sense of its place in the world: threatening conquest of smaller nations, withdrawing from international institutions, casually proposing ethnic cleansing in Gaza — a worldview that complements the mass deportations and erasure of diversity programs at home. A nation growing smaller in size and self-conception. And of course Chi-na will step right in as Trump has created a huge opening for them.
I wonder what this almost all-White group will do to Alaska. It’s apparently got its own IT arm and its own propaganda tool (MRAK), just like Elon. If I were a Native I think I would be a little afraid.
What a sad state of affairs. Good luck to all!
Bark bark bark
Go chase some parked cars.
We shouldn’t need to give tons of money to other countries to support or “like” us. It smells like bribery to me. Just being logical, we need to take care of our own first.
Thedog ol’ boy, there you go again.
USAID is nothing like it was at its inception and anyone making that argument is purposefully misinformed.
I encourage you to better inform yourself by reading an article at Foreign Policy, which explains how USAID has been covertly operating in vile, costly, and non-humanitarian ways for decades.
‘https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/
Here’s just a clip of it for you: “Though better known for administering humanitarian aid around the world, USAID has a long history of engaging in intelligence work and meddling in the domestic politics of aid recipients. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the agency often partnered with the CIA’s now-shuttered Office of Public Safety, a department beset by allegations that it trained foreign police in “terror and torture techniques” and encouraged official brutality, according to a 1976 Government Accountability Office report.”
That does not even scratch the surface of the spy-and-meddle activities it is involved in. Of course, USAID denied it,.
Maybe you don’t believe the magazine. Maybe they’re lying. How about your friends at AP writing about the twitter app that USAID developed for Cuba to start a revolution…Does ZunZuneo ring any bells or have you fried those brain cells with all that dope you are evidently smoking?
‘ https://apnews.com/article/technology-cuba-united-states-government-904a9a6a1bcd46cebfc14bea2ee30fdf
Really sad, Whidbey, that you can’t take off your blinders. I didn’t think you were that irrational … until you asked MRAK to reveal how many handguns it has on site…that was kind of whack of you TBH. No, actually, that was totally whack.
To be clear, I asked MRAK to state their policy for carrying guns on their work premises. Please don’t misrepresent my words. And also to be clear, they never replied which means to me that they are afraid to post it.
Or maybe it was simply over the line for you to ask such an intrusive question in the first place?
Whidbey, you have stated repeatedly that you are not a radical leftist, but virtually EVERY post that I have ever read from you here in MRAK is reflective of the classic radical leftist mindset — anti-gun, arrogant, elitist, pro-big-government, pro-conformity, pro-dependence, pro-deviancy, and all the rest of it. Who do you think you are fooling here?
What does skin color have to do with anything?
Haven’t you heard, we are a meritocracy now.
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And, it is very interesting how the left is all kinds of angry at the people who are exposing the fraud and waste, but not outraged at the people who are committing fraud, and wasting their tax dollars.
Thedog, If you knew anything about Native politics you would know that the level of corruption and misuse of grant monies, the modern basis of the rural “economy”, is massive.
The resource based economy was ended by a variety of factors, the Sea Mammal Protection Act being a prime example to create humiliating dependence on the outside culture hand outs. Removing the ability of men to hunt for resources convertible to earned cash, making them superfluous.
Mass rape of children by “educators” to create generational extended family dysfunction, insuring a large percentage of the people were both largely illiterate and constantly coping with issues of child abuse, to prevent a cohesive resistance to outside control.
The women largely became the providers by becoming grant writers to fund all aspects of rural existence. The grant based spending economy creates issues for which another series of grants were created to “solve” the problems the 1st level created. Yet the whole model is flawed and is a continuous waste.
As with all human beings as fallen creatures, petty politics and corruption took hold and we have created the putrid mess of impoverished ghettos and loss of societal order out of what where functional and pleasant villages.
This is why you see objections raised by certain villages towards modern resource development and productive economic activity in and near their communities.
The grant writers are simply paid off, very well, to perpetuate this failed system. They do not want to relinquish their cushy, non productive careers in favor of actual productive careers. Never mind the cost to everyone else in the communities. The same holds true for the non Natives in the rest of our State are doing in government positions.
Shedding sunlight on state wasteful spending is just as important as at the federal level for us. Time to clean out rat infested Juneau and go back to a resource, private enterprise economic based society.
“Almost all white” …they just can’t help it, can they? When in doubt pull out the race card. If you want to have some fun with liberals just replace “white” with any other racial color and then sit back and enjoy the howls of outrage.
Put down the crack pipe, Whidbey.
Dog, take a seat and be quiet.
Reputation? Reputation of Democrats.
Stealing, cheating, lying, self-dealing. It’s what Democrats do for each other in the name of building up more government at the expense of taxpayers who flit the bill for all of their dirty deeds
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Under Trump, it’s coming to an end, quick. Trump Time.
Actually whidbey… Weak liberals have destroyed our reputation. They look at limp noodles and gag.
The times are a changing. Change with it or be left behind.
Here’s a good place to start.
Look at the Mayor and the Anchorage Assembly.
Also look at the legislators and their legislation as who benefited from it.
An impressive group of Patriots with a noble mission‼️
GOD Bless them every one‼️
Start with an audit of the education!
Also, if public schools are closing statewide due to lack of funding then it’s time to move the capital to Anchorage.
No first start with GOV, Dunleavy’s office then the APFC ect
You should talk to some of the captains and mates in the ferry system over the past 20 years who earnestly tried to do things to save money… Operate efficiently, maximize fuel efficiency, optimize routes, avoid egregious pricing schemes for SOLAS approved equipment etc. Always fell on deaf ears with the management. most of them just gave up and put their heads down and stopped trying to do things efficiently. So much state money unnecessarily wasted. Not to mention the north Lynn canal ferry terminal debacle and the multi-million dollar retrofit for the Tazlina and Hubbard.
I echo this post!! The one department that has suffered either misplaced funding, or reflecting total disregard for the system, it is our State legislature’s allowing the system to self destruct through lack of forward planning.
Good place to start
Pipe line money has long been gone !
I know 1st hand out in Chugiak,
Parks and Rec. hides at the horse arena
Behind Loretta French , just playing around and gets real upset when called out!
Multiple times caught on duty employees
Stoned and shopping for munchies at 3 bears!
Audit all government
We the people
We need this badly. Thank you, Donald Trump. And thank you, Elon Musk. Exposing all of the Democrat’s fraud and corruption is going to cause them to go nuts. But, it HAS to be done.
Good crew
Most of the founding members of this DOGE. Were or are part of government that ignored the waste in the level of government, they controlled of had/have jurisdiction over. Should we believe, they seen the light? Now they want to expose it and fix it? Is this all because of President Trump? If this team needs a placed to start. Start at all the unfilled and still being funded. The empty positions in every state Division. If that can’t be fixed with this A Team, they may as well go back to their day jobs, spending our dollars.
Mayor Dan was good on less government, but his hands were tied by his Assembly.
For instance, an MOA shop was weatherizing houses here for about 35 years.
Sullivan closed that shop & now Rural-Cap hands that Fed money out to small, private, contractors.
Also you can trust Loren Leman, Bob Griffin & Suzanne Downing to zero in on gov waste …..imo.
Promising!
How about convening a grand jury that this group can report to?
DEI is alive and well in the bureaucracy here in Alaska. And we still have people working from home instead of reporting to the office. Step one eliminate both of these.
Hopefully, Alaska DOGE will be able to take a look see at Anchorage School District. Start at the top and plow through the waste. Anchorage needs to return to education that helps build futures and stops pandering and virtual signaling to globalist agendas.
‘https://apfc.org/fund-news/apfc-board-of-trustees-quarterly-meeting-february-12-13-2025/
Attend the next Alaska Permanent Fund Board Meeting. What is happening to our money? An investigation is needed.
You will need the governor on board, and the corrupt democrat legislators will fight this. Watch.
DOGE-Alaska would be better served trying to determine which portion of state spending is NOT waste, fraud and abuse. It is certainly the much smaller fraction.
PS: And please, folks, pronounce the word correctly — It is like “DOAG”, with a hard “g”, NOT “DOJE”, like the former rulers of Venice.
Start with the bypass mail. Why are we subsidizing flying hundreds (not a typo) of pallets of soda into the bush every day?
I know and can agree with most of what you said, but consider the fact many of the outlying villages do not have septic tanks or a sewage system..Many of them are still carrying buckets of home sewage out somewhere and dumping it or some other place. This in itself has caused alot of health problems and to say many of the villages do not have SAFE water to drink..Thereby they’re shipping sodas etc.and whatever else from here. of course the young people prefer the sodas.. Probably don’t trust water anymore. For many of the native people that read this, you can correct me if I’m wrong…I apologize..
You have to be kidding me! All the names in the article are former politicians and or, in the public eye. You are the people who and others that should be investigated. The Alaskan R’s and D’s are all the same. You want real a investigation hire the citizens or cannot pay there bills or buy groceries or the property taxes are too high and have no agenda or special interest, what a joke.
Why don’t you contact them and volunteer to help? I bet they would be very happy to have you!
Maybe they will have the ‘c-ones’ to point out the elephant in the room: the native villager that forever receive yet have nothing or little tangible products to show for.
JanL, the economic black hole that is Bush Alaska, sucking in vast resources and money, with effectively nothing coming back out, is one of the many third rails of Alaskan politics that can never be touched in polite company.
I am shocked that Jamie Allard DID NOT invite her trusted confidant and close friend Eddie Burke to join her and this group in its search for waste, fraud, and abuse in Alaska. By all appearances, she believes he is a stellar candidate for just about anything.
Wishing you the very best in your endeavor.
Post investigations and audits, be prepared to seize assets and apply claw-backs with associated interest to offenders. If not paid back in a timely manner (ie: immediately), then arrest and prosecute followed by incarceration.
Blah, blah, blah! Oh, and Blah, blah, blah!
All of this government accountability is long overdue and greatly needed, my thanks to all thise who have stepped up.
What stikes me as odd is when folks on the left like Whidbey howl and scream about government accountability and the wasting of taxpayer funds. They claim that by spending funds responsibly that government services are being denied when in fact thise funds can be pit to better use. Take USAID for example the mission statement says “Our Mission: On behalf of the American people, we promote and demonstrate democratic values abroad, and advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world. In support of America’s foreign policy, the U.S. Agency for International Development leads the U.S. Government’s international development and disaster assistance through partnerships and investments that save lives, reduce poverty, strengthen democratic governance, and help people emerge from humanitarian crises and progress beyond assistance.” The waste and fraud that has been brought to light by DOGE would be better served fulfilling the mission statement of USAID than spending money on left leaning newspapers for people making high wages, or better spent fulfilling the mission statement than on a transgender opera in Columbia or a transgender comic book in Peru or sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala or in poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan or tourism in Egypt. Instead of acknowledging the waste and admitting that there are better uses it’s unhinged wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Start with the Merricks and Murkowskis. Duh.
Then look at contract “usps” mail.
Try Office of Children’s Services after that.
Anyone who can’t see the theft and fraud from the American tax payers with in virtually all channels of Local, State, and Federal government is either a complete idiot,OR they are willingly participating in it at some level. The sad truth is about 40 percent of all the people nowdays are theives and have no problem circumventing and taking advantage of any situation that directly benifits themselves and their self serving alliances . There is absolutely no logical reason any decent person would have any good reason not to like the idea of DOGE or any other effort to seek out waste and fruad of any kind unless your directly benefiting from this fraud, or in on the taking of it. God Bless any and all who are trying to purge and dismantle any kinds of this BS, we know it’s been going on for decades , thank god we finally have people who are now exsposing these scum bags for who they really are, dredge out these entrenched Hogs and make examples of them all.Drain the Swamp once and for all!!!