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4 Feb, 6 tweets, 6 min read
The revelation that @GovDunleavy gave a gas line consulting contract to former Gov. Sean Parnell, at the “discount” rate of $450 an hour, starting April 30, 2020, puts this April 24 Parnell/Begich plug for bigger PFDs in a new light. #akleg #akgov ImageImageImage
A similar valuable gas line contract with Begich followed in the fall. The Dunleavy administration never announced or revealed why it hired the two for a total cost of close to $250,000. #akleg #akgov Image
Parnell and Begich appear to be the point men on the Dunleavy plan to try to get a federal subsidy from the Biden administration to build a pipeline to Fairbanks. But the state withheld disclosure of the Parnell/Begich role. #akleg #akgov dermotcole.com/reportingfroma…
The Parnell/Begich gas line promotional contracts with @GovDunleavy’s administration also put their joint opposition to the ranked choice election initiative in a new light. And the phony claim that they were big donors. #akgov #akleg
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The chronology of the Parnell/Begich “volunteer” work for Dunleavy and their later state contracts and high-profile joint endorsement of causes backed by Dunleavy deserves news coverage in Alaska. #akleg #Akgov
The Parnell/Begich team endorsed @GovDunleavy's ideas of a Permanent Fund raid and also joined in opposition to the ranked-choice-voting measure, also aligning with Dunleavy. Parnell and Begich should have revealed their state contracts to Alaskans. #akleg #akgov Image

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7 Feb
1. Just before the pandemic, John Binkley, a political ally of @GovDunleavy, whose family owns @adndotcom, announced plans for a group to fight the recall, which had been illegally blocked by former AG Kevin Clarkson. #akleg #akgov
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2. Clarkson’s illegal stalling and the pandemic stalled the recall. Now comes @adndotcom with another high-handed defense of Dunleavy, linking his recall to Felix Rivera, claiming it is a similar situation. #akleg #akgov
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5 Feb
1. Former Gov. Sean Parnell and former Sen. Mark Begich are each getting hundreds of dollars an hour for promoting the Dunleavy gas pipeline dream—which consists of hoping the feds will pay $4.5 billion for it. #akleg #akgov
2. Parnell and Begich teamed up last year to offer high-profile support for Dunleavy's point of view on raiding the Permanent Fund and opposing the election initiative. The state contracts should have been disclosed. Parnell signed in April. Begich in Sept. #akgov
3. In March, as "volunteers" for Dunleavy, they claimed to have a big, bold plan for Alaska that was neither. #akgov
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9 Jan
1. I've had second thoughts about the value of the extensive weasel words the @adndotcom published from the lips of @SenDanSullivan the other day. Thanks to @AK_OK for offering this profile in evasion. I've added annotation.
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3. As late as Monday Jan. 4, Sullivan's office refused comment on the GOP coup proposed by members of Congress. On Jan. 7, Sullivan said he had "decided a number of days ago" to oppose the coup. So he stayed silent in the corner, avoiding triggering Trump or Trump voters.
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1. The claim by @repdonyoung, who is running against @AlyseGalvin, that he changed his position on the "beer virus" only "when it became serious" is nonsense. COVID was serious when Young called it the beer virus on March 13. But the oldest Congressman was seriously inattentive.
2. “This is blown out of proportion about how deadly this is. It’s deadly but it’s not nearly as deadly as the other viruses we have. But we respond, I’ll call it the hysteria concept,” Young said on March 13.
3. Young was wrong on every serious detail. The beer virus news coverage led to national ridicule. His young employees tried to clean up the mess, even inventing the idea that he wrote: “Knowledge is one of our best defenses against the spread of Coronavirus."
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26 Aug 20
1. @GovDunleavy pretended Tuesday that he learned of Kevin Clarkson’s pursuit of a young, low-level state employee that day. He said Clarkson did the right thing to quit. #akleg
2. But Dunleavy knew about this “deeply disappointing” behavior for months. Clarkson was suspended without pay starting Aug.1, which Dunleavy kept secret from state employees and the public. Clarkson was due back Sept. 1.
3. Had Anchorage Daily News reporter @kylehopkinsAK not kept asking questions, leading to publication Tuesday, Dunleavy would probably have been content with the secret one-month suspension, making a lie of the “high expectations” prattle. #akleg

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