The news coverage about Donald Trump’s alleged plan to visit Alaska to campaign for Sen. Dan Sullivan presented this information as if it was revealed by a man with full control of his faculties.
The news coverage concealed the context, which is that Trump made his so-called announcement after nearly 50 disjointed minutes of lies and half-truths about everything from the evil Canadians to his ballroom obsession, his beautiful helipad and how cheap gasoline was a year ago.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan is campaigning with wealthy Trump lackeys in Alaska, claiming that they are working together to lower energy costs.
What are you going to believe? The $4.94-per-gallon price at the gas pump in major Alaska cities? The electric bills in Interior Alaska that show the highest rates ever? The $5,000 bill that many homeowners are facing to fill up with heating oil?
Or the two white-haired rich guys boasting about “lowering costs” as they stride out of the Alaska Energy Authority to try to get votes, dressed in white shirts in their cute state-supplied embroidered black vests?
Read MoreI suspect that Candice English is going to be a candidate in name only.
It is more likely that English, who stepped into the Tregarrick Taylor void, will call on Republicans to support Bernadette Wilson alone or along with Dave Bronson.
That would create a three-way race with Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, Bronson and Wilson.
Read MoreThe remaining candidates for governor in Alaska are Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, Bernadette Wilson, Dave Bronson and maybe Candice English.
Read MoreThe new board of the Fairbanks newspaper—the selection of which should require real community outreach—is going to have to wrestle with big questions such as whether the print publication should be ended entirely and how to improve its online presence and generate more revenue.
Read MoreDemocrat Tom Begich ended his campaign for governor Friday and endorsed the Democratic leader Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, who shares many of the same political positions.
The decision to unify behind JKT increases the chances for the Democratic candidate in the November election.
Read MoreThe experience of the past year-and-a-half points to a series of red flags that went unheeded by Alaskans.
The uncomfortable truth is that Glenfarne was never the right company to plan and execute one of the world’s largest construction projects.
Read More“He’s slandering Bernadette,” GOP publicist Suzanne Downing claims about Dave Bronson, calling him a misogynist who is helping the Democrats by refusing to drop out of the governor’s race and clear the way for Bernadette Wilson.
Read MoreSeven months ago President Donald Trump praised himself for starting the giant Alaska LNG pipeline project.
“Launched a massive Alaska pipeline project to export natural gas to Asia. We made a deal with South Korea and Japan that gives us money, the likes of which nobody’s ever seen before,” he said during his one-year victory lap as a two-time president.
Read MoreWhat Glenfarne and the “Build the Line!” propaganda campaign want Alaskans to forget about are the extravagant promises of 2025 that Donald Trump would make the Alaska LNG pipeline a reality.
Alaska’s Republican governor and Republican Congressional delegation claimed for months that Trump would get Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and other nations to pay for Alaska’s largest construction project and get it built in record time.
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