Mike Dunleavy today named Commissioner of Corrections and former State Rep. Nancy Dahlstrom as his running mate for 2022.
“Nancy is well-qualified, experienced, knowledgeable, and has the temperament to do the job of Lieutenant Governor well,” said Dunleavy.“Over the past four years, Nancy and I have worked together to make Alaska a safer, better place for everyone. Alaska has long struggled to address public safety issues – but Nancy and I are committed to continuing to reverse these troubling trends and statistics. We are seeing progress, but we have more work to do. I am pleased that Nancy is joining the ticket. With her experience in the private sector, the legislative process, and the executive branch, I know she’s dedicated to the role of lieutenant governor.”
Dahlstrom has a long history of public service. She moved to Alaska when she was 18. She ran against Lisa Murkowski for Alaska House in 2002. After losing by just 56 votes, she was tapped to finish Murkowski’s term in the Alaska House after Gov. Frank Murkowski named his daughter Lisa to finish his seat in the U.S. Senate, as he had been elected governor.
Dahlstrom is a Republican from Eagle River, who also served in the Parnell Administration as a senior advisor to the governor.
“She’s a Republican, but she’s an Alaskan first and foremost. She will serve Alaskans and this great state competently. Nancy Dahlstrom is willing, able, and ready to serve,” Dunleavy said.
Dahlstrom, in an interview with Must Read Alaska, says she has built a strong relationship with the governor and he is comfortable with her working style and judgment. He appointed her to take over the Department of Corrections shortly after he took office in 2018.
Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka has named national political veteran Greg Manz as campaign manager, a role he will assume on June 1. Manz has served in key roles in both of President Donald Trump’s campaigns and has worked in national and state politics for nearly a decade. Tshibaka is challenging incumbent U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski in the 2022 election.
“The Alaska Senate race is a national race with national implications, and it will take someone with the experience and instincts necessary for the big political stage. We are thrilled to welcome Greg Manz to the team,” Tshibaka said. “We already have been running an aggressive and energetic campaign and Greg will help us step it up even further just as the summer is arriving.”
“It is an honor and a privilege to join Team Kelly and work for one of the brightest and strongest candidates in the entire nation,” Manz said. “Lisa Murkowski is historically unpopular and has cast egregious votes that prove she has turned her back on Alaskans in favor of her Washington, D.C. friends. This campaign will be about restoring the voices of Alaskans to the Senate.”
Manz served as a Strategic Advisor on Trump’s 2020 campaign and was Donald Trump’s Communications Director in the battleground state of Pennsylvania in 2016. He also served as the Deputy State Director in Iowa for Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign and Statewide Field Director for the Pennsylvania House Republican Campaign Committee. Manz has also been Communications Director for the Republican Party of Pennsylvania.
Manz is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where he played NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey, earning Hockey East All-Academic honors four years in a row.
The campaign has been doing a national search for a campaign manager for several weeks, according to sources in the campaign.
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Tuesday night fights Tuesday night at the Anchorage Assembly, the leftists led by Assemblyman Chris Constant will attempt to pass an ordinance giving them vast authority to remove the mayor for nearly any reason, in spite of the will of the voters. Watch for a story at Must Read Alaska later today (and be prepared to make your voice heard.) Related documents for your review: Notice of public hearing on Ordinance 2022-60Friday’s work session documents
Before the main show, the mayor of Anchorage is having an ice cream social, details in the graphic above.
Dennis Prager packs the house in Anchorage, warns of threat to country The conservative talk show host has nothing much good to say about American universities and what they are doing to society. Read more here.
Beast mode: ConocoPhillips gets first oil from record-setting well It will bring 10,000 barrels per day to the TAPS, and the oil has already begun to flow to help stem the decline. Read more here.
Alaska Redistricting Board dissidents lose one in court The Supremes said the gruesome twosome who have been throwing tantrums may not hire their own attorney, separate from the board attorney, for the purpose of filing their own court brief in the case. Read more here. Update: I am expecting an Alaska Supreme Court ruling on the Eagle River-Girdwood Senate map today.
Sen. Click Bishop faces ire of his Interior Republicans They censure him and vow to withhold support.Read more here.
Notes from the trail: Palin stumps in Georgia, Murkowski gets NEA endorsement And who was spotted in a red gown at the Dennis Prager gala? Read more here.
Notes from the trail: Revak’s war on Santa seems like payback for coal We found the old tapes from Christmas, when Santa gave Josh Revak a real talking-to over his behavior the past year. Revak doubled down.Read more here.
How did gun legislation fare this session? One bad gun bill dies, but so does a good one. Read more here.
Biden names BIPOC-focused social justice EPA lead for Northwest He’s a Seattleite and he’s really far left. In charge of EPA in Alaska. Read more here.
Murkowski unhappy with gas prices, blames Biden She held a press conference to talk about how bad the administration is. Read more here.
Soldotna Planned Parenthood closing The organization is moving toward telehealth.Read more here.
Latest polling on Alaska governor’s race (Lake poll, done on behalf of candidate Les Gara): Mike Dunleavy (R-Incumbent) 40%Les Gara (D) 24%Bill Walker (I) 18%Charlie Pierce (R) 5%Other 3%Undecided 10%
Check Must Read Alaska later today for a new edition of “Notes from the trail.”
Biden says everyone should be concerned about monkeypox Whatever happened to Covid? Read more here. Update: AP reports that monkeypox was spread in Spain, Belgium by sex among men at raves, according to former WHO official.
Podcast today with Jeff Lowenfels Jeff is running for Congress. The podcast should be on Facebook by 9 am. Podcast with Jack Coghill Coghill, former senator from North Pole, is running for Congress. Watch it here. Podcast with Charlie Pierce Kenai Borough Mayor has cut the mill rate and balanced the budget on the Kenai. Watch it here. Podcast with Danika Baldwin Instagram influencer is going big with her new Alaska travel business, and she has a zillion views on social media, as she shows off Alaska. John Quick interviews her. Tune in here. Podcast with Rep. David Eastman John Quick hosts this show with the representative from Wasilla; they talk about the PFD and more.Tune in here. Podcast with Santa Claus That guy named Santa Claus in North Pole, who serves on the City Council, was our podcast guest on Monday. He’s running for Congress. On our Facebook feed here and on podcast channels here. Podcast with Rep. Laddie Shaw John Quick talks with the retired Navy SEAL and lawmaker about what’s ahead in the final two weeks of session. More here. Podcast with Tara Sweeney Candidate for House Tara Sweeney joins us on Facebook live, and on all our stations, including Pandora. More here.
The Alaska Supreme Court today denied a request by two radical dissident members of the Alaska Redistricting Board to join a lawsuit as a separate entity from the redistricting board’s three-member majority, which has a case pending before the Supreme Court.
The ruling from the court came within an hour after the end of Sunday’s testy meeting of the Alaska Redistricting Board, during which the two radicals badgered the chair and other members, and said they’d hired a separate lawyer at their own expense to challenge the board’s legal decisions, which they said were illegal.
The Alaska Supreme Court quickly ruled that Melanie Bahnke and Nicole Borromeo’s attorney, which they said they would pay for with a fundraiser, would not be allowed to file a separate brief in the pending case. They were simply grandstanding, and the Supreme Court put a quick stop to it.
The court is expected to issue a ruling as early as Monday on the last remaining points of contention in redistricting — Eagle River, East Anchorage, and Girdwood. The urgency is due to the filing deadline for political office being just a week away, on June 1; candidates need to know what House and Senate district they live in before they file. The majority of the board decided to pair Eagle River and Girdwood to meet the demands of the court over a tough-to-draw Senate seat.
Board member Bahnke earlier on Sunday attacked board member Budd Simpson’s wife, who was not present. They have attacked Paulette Simpson before. Bahnke continued the pattern of the two Leftists on the board of picking on Budd Simpson because, while he voted with them on earlier House maps, agreeing with them on several occasions, he later voted with members Bethany Marcum and board Chair John Binkley on the Senate maps. No good deed would go unpunished by Bahnke, who targeted Budd, impugning his character, and blaming his well-known wife for influencing him. Bahnke offered no proof, just allegations.
During the Sunday meeting, Bahnke and Borromeo continued in their role as Rottweilers, gnarling and growling at the three-member majority over every decision.
But it was Bahnke, appointed by former Alaska Chief Justice Joel Bolger, who went off the rails.
Chairman Binkley cautioned Bahnke repeatedly to not make personal attacks, yet she persisted in her claims about Paulette, and then, when counseled against unprofessional behavior, pivoted and said it wasn’t her who brought it up, but it was Budd Simpson who brought it up. Budd responded to the claims by saying they were absolutely false.
“I reject the assertion that my wife or anybody else had any impact or pressured me in any way on that vote,” Budd said.
The board has met since last August to redraw House and Senate districts, and all of them have passed legal muster with the Alaska Supreme Court except the East Anchorage-Eagle River-Girdwood map that currently creates a hillside district. While the process started out in an orderly fashion, it has devolved into nastiness in recent weeks, as Democrats in Anchorage are fighting every step of the way to carve out a Senate seat that will favor their party.
In addition to Bahnke attacking Simpson, Borromeo also made false claims that the board’s own attorney had characterized board member Bethany Marcum as “nuts and crazy.” Binkley cautioned Borromeo to stop making personal attacks.
Bahnke also said on the record she will not honor the decision of the board on the maps or on the board’s legal challenge, as she considers the board process illegitimate.
It appeared that during her attacks and arguments Bahnke was being scripted by her private lawyer, Scott Kendall, who she and Borromeo hired to represent them in their failed effort to block the board majority. Kendall is a leading lawyer for Democrats.
Photo credit: Melanie Bahnke at U.S. Helsinki Commission, via Flickr.
President Joe Biden, speaking to reporters in Korea, said everyone should be concerned about monkeypox, which has been reported on the African continent, in Europe and two cases in the United States — one in Massachusetts and one in New York.
Cases have been reported in Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Canada and other countries — and none of the individuals who have had the illness had any travel history in Africa, where the virus is endemic.
“We’re working on it, hard to figure out what we do,” Biden said to reporters, adding “if it were to spread, it’s consequential.”
Biden’s exact remarks, given as he boarded his jet for Japan, are transcribed at this White House link.
Monkeypox is transmitted by skin contact, air droplets, and infected surfaces. Smallpox-like sores, and the illness also comes with fever and other flu symptoms. It can be fatal. The media has seized upon the news of the disease with gusto and suddenly there is no rush to report on Covid-19, the pandemic that began in early 2020 and that spawned numerous unconstitutional policies by federal, state, and local governments.
Belgium was the first European country to introduce a mandatory 21-day monkeypox quarantine for those who contact the virus, after three cases were recorded.
“I’m stunned by this. Every day I wake up and there are more countries infected,” said Oyewale Tomori, a virologist and World Health Organization advisory board member, as reported by Fox News.
Monkeypox used to be confined to animals, but the first human case of the pox disease broke through from research monkeys to humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, monkeypox has been reported in humans in other central and western African countries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The World Health Organization writes that as of May 21, 92 laboratory confirmed cases, and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox with investigations ongoing, have been reported to WHO from 12 states that are not endemic for the virus, across three WHO regions. No associated deaths have been reported to date.
“The identification of confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox with no direct travel links to an endemic area represents a highly unusual event. Surveillance to date in non-endemic areas has been limited, but is now expanding. WHO expects that more cases in non-endemic areas will be reported. Available information suggests that human-to-human transmission is occurring among people in close physical contact with cases who are symptomatic,” the WHO writes.
WHO says monkeypox is a viral zoonosis with symptoms very similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although it is clinically less severe. Monkeypox virus is now transmitted from one person to another by close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets, and contaminated materials such as bedding. The incubation period of monkeypox is usually from 6 to 13 days but can range from 5 to 21 days, WHO says.
Risk factors include eating inadequately cooked meat and other animal products of infected animals. Monkeypox is usually self-limiting but may be severe in some individuals, such as children, pregnant women or persons with immune suppression due to other health conditions. Human infections with the West African version of the virus appear to cause less severe disease compared to the Congo Basin version, with a case fatality rate of 3.6% compared to 10.6%.
Has monkeypox been weaponized? According to the Daily Mirror, a specialist in biological weapons during the Soviet Union says that in those days a program was run to find out which viruses could be made weapons. Colonel Kanat Alibekov was the deputy head of the country’s biological weapons program until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. He said, “We started a special program to find out which ‘model’ virus of interest can be used for human smallpox. We used vaccinia virus, mousepox virus, rabbitpox virus and monkeypox virus as model viruses for smallpox.”
At midnight on Wednesday, the Alaska Legislature adjourned from its 2022 Legislative Session. Second Amendment legislation — both pro-gun ownership and anti-gun ownership — died that night.
Mandatory firearm storage legislation, House Bill 203, failed to gain enough votes to pass in committee.
Second Amendment emergency powers protection legislation, Senate Bill 136, fell short by just two votes in the House for final passage.
House Bill 203 – (“Safe Storage”) sought to give law enforcement the ability to issue a fine to gun owners of up to $1,000 if an unauthorized individual gains access to a firearm and proceeds to injure themselves or another. The bill essentially required firearms to be locked and rendered inaccessible for self-defense in the home. HB 203 was an attempt to punish law-abiding gun owners for the crimes of criminals, while current state law already provides an avenue for cases where true negligence with a firearm is present.
Senate Bill 136, (“Emergency Powers Protections”) sponsored by Sen. Rob Myers and co-sponsored by 23 other legislators, sought to provide protections for gun stores, ranges, or any other entity that engages in the lawful selling or servicing of firearms, components, or accessories. This measure would have prevented the prohibition, regulation, or seizure of citizens’ Second Amendment rights during a declared State of Emergency. SB 136 was a direct response to infringements on the Second Amendment that occurred across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill fell short of passage by two votes in the House on the final day of the legislative session.
SB 136 had unanimously passed the Senate on March 16, and spent nearly two-months in the House Community and Regional Affairs Committee before receiving its passing vote of 5-2, on May 17. The House companion bill, House Bill 179, sponsored by House Minority Leader Rep. Cathy Tilton, has sat in the House Community and Regional Affairs Committee since its introduction on April 16, 2021. That bill never received a hearing.
SB 136 was advanced to the House Floor where it needed a 3/4 vote to advance from second to third reading. The bill received hours of debate and amendments were offered, including an attempt by Rep. Adam Wool, the sponsor of HB 203, to add his government-issued firearms storage programs into the emergency powers bill – this amendment failed to pass by a vote of 16-24.
One amendment, offered by Rep. Sara Rasmussen was adopted; it would have required K-12 grade school districts to offer hunter safety education courses.
SB 136 ultimately needed 30 votes to pass from second to third reading, but the final vote was 28-12. Blocking the bill from making it to a final vote were Rep. Harriet Drummond, Rep. Zack Fields, Rep. Sara Hannan, Rep. Andy Josephson, Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, Rep. Daniel Ortiz, Rep. Ivy Spohnholz, Rep. Andi Story, Rep. Geran Tarr, Rep. Chris Tuck, and Rep. Adam Wool.
The NRA thanked Sen. Rob Myers (R-Fairbanks) and Minority Leader Rep. Cathy Tilton (R-Wasilla), both 2A champions who sponsored the emergency powers bills and worked with leadership on both sides of the aisle.
(This story is adapted from NRA Institute for Legislative Action, NRAILA.org).
Spotted at Alaska Family Council banquet: At the Dennis Prager soiree for Alaska Family Council on Saturday, just a few legislators were in the crowd, including Rep. Ben Carpenter, Rep. Kevin McCabe, Sen. Mia Costello, and Sen. Mike Shower. Also a couple of statewide candidates: Nick Begich for Congress in sport coat and Kelly Tshibaka for U.S. Senate in a long red gown. Sharon Jackson, running for State House for Eagle River, was present, and Mayor Dave Bronson and Assemblyman Randy Sulte were also spotted. Gov. Mike Dunleavy was sitting up front.
Charlie Pierce heads to Kodiak: Pierce, who is running for governor as a Republican, will be in Kodiak for the Crab Fest. After that, he and Vonnie will head to Wasilla for a fundraiser.
Daniel Volland, Insta-fake candidate: The 12th seat on the Anchorage Assembly is the race that is now underway, and the chatter is about Daniel Volland, the optometrist who moved to Alaska a few years ago, and then immediately began working on the committee with Assemblyman Chris Constant to carve out another Assembly seat for downtown Anchorage. He is the candidate that the Left is backing, including the leftists on the Assembly. We did an analytic dive into his Instagram account, which boasts over 73,000 followers, even though it’s kind of a “meh” account. We discovered that at least a third of his followers are fake, which typically means the account has purchased followers.
In case you were wondering if you’re in the downtown municipal district for the 12th seat, here’s the new map for the 12th seat election, which ends June 21 and is mail-in only for the people living in this district, which is heavily liberal.
Les Gara blames Tucker Carlson for Buffalo murders: Les Gara, running for governor as a Democrat, blamed news analyst Tucker Carlson for the shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. “The racist murders in Buffalo are heartbreaking. Leaders should be role models. @TuckerCarlson speaks the kind of hate that finds its way to people who act on it.” And then, the money line from Gara: “People with a podium have a duty to speak unity, not the kind of hate that dangerous people act on.” Gara was silent on the matter when in 2018 Carlson’s home was surrounded by a mob of leftist terrorists.
Walker still spellbound by Obama: Bill Walker, running for governor for the third time, recalled his time on Air Force One with President Obama, talking about climate change and such. And then he criticized Gov. Mike Dunleavy for not going out to JBER to meet with President Joe Biden, when Biden was on his way to Korea, stopping for fuel in Anchorage:
“And fast forward to today when Governor Dunleavy passed up the best opportunity to meet with President Biden on his trip through Alaska and fight to get the Willow project going that Alaska really needs right now to jumpstart our economy,” Walker said.
We’re not sure Dunleavy would want to meet with Biden, whose approval rating is in the low 20s in Alaska.
Polling: Lake Research Partners, in a poll sponsored by candidate Les Gara, shows Dunleavy has a +24 lead over Gara and a whopping +30 advantage over Walker:
Murkowski celebrates birthday: Sen. Lisa Murkowski turned 65 today. She shared a photo of herself as a child. What a doll! If she wins reelection this year to the U.S. Senate, Murkowski will be a spry 71 for her next campaign.
Endorsements: The Alaska chapter of the National Education Association (NEA-Alaska) announced its endorsement of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, spurning the Democrat in the race, Pat Chesbro. In making the endorsement, NEA-Alaska President Tom Klaameyer commended Murkowski’s steadfast commitment to public education in Alaska. An affiliate of the National Education Association, NEA-Alaska represents more than 11,000 public school employees, support staff and retirees statewide. In 2021, The New York Post wrote that NEA fought parents who opposed teaching Critical Race Theory. The NEA also supports the 1619 Project of the New York Times, which advances racist CRT ideology and is now widely used in schools to teach children to be racist. The NEA passed a resolution claiming it is “reasonable and appropriate” to include CRT in curriculum — and pledged to create “a team of staffers” to help teachers “fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric,” and says it supports “an already-created, in-depth study that critiques white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy … capitalism … and other forms of power and oppression,” according to the NEA website.
Tali Birch Kindred, wife of Judge Joshua Kindred and daughter of the late Sen. Chris Birch, has endorsed Gov. Bill Walker. Tali is an oil industry attorney. She applied to fill her father’s seat when he died, but was ultimately not chosen by Gov. Dunleavy, nor elected by her district. Her husband, the federal judge, is a Trump appointee.
Correction on Palin:Must Read Alaska said Sarah Palin, running for Congress, was in Savannah, Georgia for a fundraiser but it turns out she was there to campaign for David Perdue for governor of Georgia. Perdue is lagging in the polls. Donald Trump, who endorsed Perdue, has begun to distance himself as Perdue’s chances seem slim.
A clip of her comments to the crowd, as she is introduced by Perdue, who says that because there is only one seat for Alaska in Congress, it makes it a more powerful seat than the two in the Senate.
Nick Begich fundraiser: In case you missed an earlier chance to meet Nick Begich, running for Congress, Joe and Tyra Chandler are hosting a fundraiser on May 26, 5:30-7 pm in Anchorage.
Hate mail winner: Some of Sarah Palin’s fans are really intense. Here’s one that is typical:
Dennis Prager, founder of Prager University (PragerU), host of a nationally syndicated talk show and podcast, author of several books, and highly sought-after conservative speaker, packed the house at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage on Saturday evening. The hotel said it was the largest event held at the hotel since the Covid lockdowns started in 2020.
To a banquet room full of over 550 people attending to support the work of the Alaska Family Council, Prager said one of the most pressing issues in the nation today is that the Left is in control of schools and universities, and is using those platforms to drive a wedge between parents and their children.
He said that across the nation, parents tell him they know of other parents whose children will not speak to them because they voted for Donald Trump for president. He also hears from parents themselves who say their children have pushed them out of their lives. And he said that it’s the stated mission of at least some institutions of higher learning, such as Brown University and his alma mater Columbia University, to separate students from the values of their parents.
Prager gave a similar, albeit more spiritually laced message on Friday evening at the Alaska Jewish Center in Anchorage, to about 100 people, about half them Jewish, the other half Christian. On Sunday afternoon, he will speak at Anchorage Baptist Temple, where over 300 people have already purchased tickets. The event starts at 4 pm and tickets, $75, are available at the door.
Prager implored the audience in Anchorage to tell their children and grandchildren, “I care more about your character than I do about your grades.” And he said parents should consider homeschooling their children at this point, because public schools are creating what he calls an epidemic of children who have essentially dismissed their parents from their lives, something that is contrary to Judeo-Christian foundations.
PragerU is the most viewed conservative video site in the world, with one billion views a year, more than half by people under the age of 35. Dennis Prager is a New York Times bestselling author of nine books on subjects as varied as religion, happiness, morality, the left, Islamism, and America. He is a life-long theologian. His book, The Rational Bible, is the first volume of his five-volume commentary on the first five books of the Bible – rooted in his extensive knowledge of biblical Hebrew. It is currently the bestselling Bible commentary in America, and at publication was the #1 bestselling non-fiction book in the United States. His next book on Deuteronomy has already received an order by Costco of 35,000 copies, he said. It will be released in October.
ConocoPhillips Alaska announced Friday that it achieved first oil production on Thursday from Fiord West Kuparuk reservoir, just a month after setting a new drilling record for a land-based rig.
Doyon 26, the largest mobile land rig in North America (also known as “The Beast,”) is a technologically advanced rig that can drill beyond 40,000 feet, which substantially extends the reach from a single pad. The Beast can develop 154 square miles of reservoir from a 14-acre drilling pad, versus 55 square miles with conventional rigs.
“This project opens a new era we call ‘growth without gravel’ where we can use extended reach technology to access 60 percent more acreage from a single pad, dramatically reducing our footprint and enabling us to safely produce from environmentally sensitive areas,” said Erec Isaacson, president of ConocoPhillips Alaska.
The well, CD2-310, was decades in the making and planning started in 1998. An injection well that will be pre-produced for 5-6 months prior to being converted to permanent injection service, it will give the company a lot of data that can help optimize the design of the next well. The well’s flowrate is being progressively increased and is currently producing close to 10,000 barrels per day, exceeding expectations.
“Extended reach technology has been a game changer for ConocoPhillips,” said Vincent Lelarge, vice president for Alaska asset development. “It’s how we are able to responsibility develop fields like Fiord West Kuparuk with minimal footprint on the tundra and the surrounding environment.”
Lelarge said ConocoPhillips has worked collaboratively on the Doyon 26 rig since 2011 when use of an extended reach drilling rig was being evaluated. From front-end engineering and design studies to our ConocoPhillips Canada colleagues collaborating with Doyon Drilling during construction, the rig arrived on the North Slope of Alaska in 2020.
Fiord West Kuparuk is located in the Colville River Unit and is 100 percent owned and operated by ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.
