Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy just crashed New York City’s mayoral pity party with an invitation to head north.
In a lighthearted-but-pointed op-ed for the New York Daily News, Dunleavy took direct aim at the Big Apple’s latest political drama, where socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani emerged victorious in the Democratic mayoral primary and looks poised to take over the city that is the heartbeat of the international business world. Ranked-choice voting makes him the man to beat.
Dunleavy’s message? If you’re a business owner tired of crime, chaos, and calls to “seize the means of production,” Alaska’s wide open spaces — and wide open markets — are waiting.
Dunleavy wrote that there are two Americas.
“One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism,” he wrote.
Spoiler alert: Alaska is the latter.
Dunleavy gleefully pointed out the red flags in Mamdani’s platform, from targeting wealth creators to cozying up to fringe foreign policy ideas. He painted a bleak picture of a Gotham in economic freefall, driven by anti-business rhetoric, rising crime, and suffocating taxes. Then he offered a stark contrast: life without income taxes, government micromanagement, or the perpetual hum of sirens.
But the governor of Alaska wasn’t just throwing shade — he was throwing out a lifeline: Go North, he urged.
“A century and a half ago, New York newspaperman Horace Greeley encouraged Americans to, “Go West, young man.” Today, I’m telling New York’s business owners and entrepreneurs: Go North. Bring your dreams, your hustle, and your vision to Alaska. We’ll welcome you with open arms and the wide-open spaces of the Last Frontier. You have a choice; Alaska is ready to be your new home,” Dunleavy wrote.
Alaska, with its pro-business climate and friendly communities, is ready to welcome New Yorkers sick of the socialist slide into communism.
Of course, there’s no Madison Avenue in Wasilla. You won’t be ordering off a Michelin star menu in Nome. And if you’re attached to your Nordstrom, let alone Bergdorf Goodman, you might want to brace yourself for a wardrobe downgrade to Carhartt chic.
As the locals like to say, in Alaska the odds are good, but the goods are… well, odd.
Still, with New Yorkers reportedly eyeing the exits amid political upheaval, skyrocketing costs, and crime headaches, Dunleavy’s lighthearted pitch might just strike a chord. Not everybody wants to go to Florida.
Alaska’s taxes are low, and nobody’s threatening to nationalize your grocery store.
“We’re not about tearing down historic statues or chasing away wealth creators; we’re about building opportunity and defending the American Dream. Whether you’re running a small shop or a big corporation, Alaska has a home for you. We have incentives for companies willing to set up shop here — a business-friendly environment and a community that values and supports the entrepreneurial spirit,” he wrote.
“Imagine operating your business where the sun shines 24 hours a day. Where the air is clean, there are endless opportunities, and the state is not trying to run your store for you. You’re the boss, and the government stays out of the way. In Alaska, we’re rolling out the welcome mat for tech startups to family-owned businesses,” Dunleavy wrote.
So if your startup, hedge fund, or bagel shop needs a new home — and you don’t mind swapping subways for snowmachines — the Last Frontier says: welcome aboard.
Just don’t wonder where the nearest Chanel boutique is.
No. We dont need more future anchorage voters
Rick Perry, governor of Texas, did this with Californians a dozen years ago. The resulting surge in housing costs, strain on infrastructure, cultural differences, and job market changes might have outweighed any benefits from the increased capital, enhanced diversity, and the surge in housing construction jobs. Enjoying the misery of urban New Yorkers who are electing communist leaders is one thing. Inviting them here to elect more communists assembly members in Anchorage might not be the brightest idea.
“Enhanced diversity” is a benefit? Name 1 measurable factor that got better when the percentage of Whites decreased in America or Europe or Africa.
Pollution goes up, test scores go down, tax base decreases, criminality dramatically increases, trust in government decreases, power outages increase, boil water notices increase, garbage removal decreases, job growth plummets, corruption skyrockets, drug dealing goes off the chart, hospitals start closing down, everyone hates everyone else, funding for israel goes through the roof, pawn shops increase, prostitution goes up, drunk driving increases, doors remain permanently locked, the police become militarized, everyone becomes a victim advocate, the phone numbers require you to press 2 for English.
Name something that got measurably better when the number of Whites decreased in a community. Name one city that has become stronger with fewer Whites living in it. Name a single industry name a Nobel prize winner in an actual hard science that emerged from a society with fewer White people.
All you have is ethnic restaurants. And you won’t accept that cook books exist
“………“Enhanced diversity” is a benefit?………”
It is to some folks. I like ethnic restaurants. Biologically, the mixing of genetics is a known scientific benefit. But I don’t like the social, ethnic, and cultural hostilities that inevitably result. Like I wrote, most changes offer both benefits and detriments. Some changes are inevitable. Those that are invited might be better not invited.
You should look into the experience of trying to get a matching organ donor with mixed genetics. Not everything the tv tells you is true. Especially about diversity
It’s ironic that you single out funding for Israel in your diatribe and that you also talk about Nobel Prizes. You must consider Israelis to be a white society since they’ve taken a disproportionate percentage of Nobel Prizes in the “actual hard science(s)”, of course if you were to open that up to Jewish Nobel Prize winners the percentage goes up even further…and if you were to add in all the other Nobel Prizes the percentage continues to rise for each group. So is Israel too Jewish for you or not Jewish enough?
I find it extremely telling that the white power movement and the leftist movements all want to label and group people based upon the color of their skin, it only reinforces the fact that the fascist followers of the National Socialist Party are apart of the leftwing movement.
Zionist control of Western nations is slipping away and it freaks you out.
Imagine how much worse things will be in 20 years when the boomers are gone. You had the world in your hand and it wasn’t enough.
Ps, Nobel prizes are awarded by committees. Jewish over-representation in the committees has become astronomical adjusted for the population of Sweden.
You’re the one ignorantly spouting nonsense about Nobel Prizes of white societies. And once again you can’t answer basic questions because you simply repeat the hate that you’ve been brainwashed to believe and so you cannot form a cogent thought in response.
Your hatred overwhelms you.
Just leave your politics in New York.
Even if you are an R. Almost all R’s in New York are squish. We have more then enough squish in AK.
Heck, why not head north?
Worked nice for Big Mike and on his journey he’s made Alaska a veritable shrine to free enterprise and rugged independence as our Governor.
Noooooooo! They are a disease. Nothing good will come from it
This as good as him trolling fired federal employees. Offering all those Alaskan jobs. One month later he declares a hiring freeze. Dunleavy should maybe worry about doing the job he was elected to do. Maybe he will promise New Yorkers a full PFD.
Does not seem like a good idea to me!! Sounds like inviting more criminals to Alaska to me!!
Agreed 👍
“From Denial to Deception: Governor Dunleavy’s Alaska Isn’t the Free Market Haven He Claims”
By Edward D. Martin Jr.
Citizen Advocate for Constitutional Accountability in Alaska
Governor Mike Dunleavy’s recent op-ed in the New York Daily News — and its glowing regurgitation by Suzanne Downing in Must Read Alaska — paints Alaska as a rugged capitalist paradise for disillusioned New Yorkers. But as an Alaskan who has spent years exposing this administration’s failures to follow the law, I can assure you: this glossy sales pitch hides a crisis of governance, transparency, and truth.
While Dunleavy ridicules “coastal elites” for lurching toward socialism, he conveniently ignores his own violations of Alaska law, including:
Failure to enforce mandatory bonding requirements under AS 39.05.050 and AS 39.15.010–100, meant to protect the public from malfeasance by officials.
Guttings of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, where over $14,000 per citizen has been seized from Alaskans since 2016 — a violation of statutory law and the public trust.
Stacking of oversight bodies like the Alaska Judicial Council and Commission on Judicial Conduct with insiders, while shielding judges from accountability and violating constitutional due process.
Ignoring citizen petitions for redress and refusing to refer well-documented cases of misconduct to a grand jury — a constitutional right under Article I, Section 8.
Dunleavy speaks of “opportunity” and “freedom,” yet his administration has repeatedly demonstrated disdain for the rule of law, the very foundation of free enterprise and democratic governance.
A Business-Friendly Environment — for Whom?
While Dunleavy invites tech startups to “Go North,” entrepreneurs should ask:
Where are the bonded fiduciaries overseeing state investments like the Permanent Fund?
Why were Trustees allowed to vote to strip their own bonding obligations from the bylaws — with Dunleavy’s appointees complicit?
Why does the Attorney General’s office shield these actions instead of enforcing the law?
The truth is, Alaska’s laws are only followed when politically convenient. We are witnessing the erosion of constitutional order under a governor who speaks liberty but governs with impunity.
Alaska Deserves Better — So Does America
We Alaskans are not props in Dunleavy’s political theater. We are citizens demanding lawful governance. The America Party rising from Alaska today isn’t about culture wars or coastal trolling — it’s about restoring the founding promises: justice, accountability, and honest service.
If business owners are truly seeking freedom, they should first ask whether Alaska’s government itself is free from fraud, abuse, and lawlessness. The answer today, sadly, is no.
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” — 2 Corinthians 3:17
Ugh our state is already infested with communists why invite more?
Did he also let them know that he’s in favor of “immigrant” employment centers? I’m so glad he has time to write gleeful pieces of fiction while the state burns under his “conservative” leadership.
Spoiler alert: Alaska is the latter.
Is it really? Maybe if you stay out of Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks. In those cities Marxism is alive and thriving.
Dunleavy’s letter is hollow fluff, like all Leftist propaganda. Alaska is NOT “open for business” at all. Our motto “North to the Future” lured me here 50 years ago, and it was true for a while, but now it is a shopworn lie. As long as we permit unconstitutional federal control of our resources, we will continue to wallow in a downward economic spiral. For those worried about liberals bringing their baggage here, there is no need. Soros & Gates already have bought us out. See all the political ads coming from Outside, which give the fig-leaf cover for rigged elections, RCV, etc. Scott Kendall is their keystone.
Trump & Begich are helping, but only mitigate what needs to be done: claim our sovereignty, “equal footing” with the other states, and stop being a “Half-ling”. We are no better off than we were as a pre-statehood colony. Few would argue this, but Dunleavy is trying to create his own fantasy world. Carbon sequestration, anyone?
Good points being made in the comments. Too bad Dunleavy won’t have time to read them, he is too busy with the Times. Maybe he can move to New York.
We don’t want them up here crapping in our nest making it unliveable. It’s bad enough that skAnchorage draws too many of them into its orbit.