Posted by Jeanne Devon on September 22, 2020 · Leave a Comment
TALL TALES from Juneau and the DC Debacle AND IT’S ALLLL ON TAPE Sometimes you know things, but it’s nice to have them proven right out loud, through dramatic and surreptitious means. Such is the case with the immediately infamous “Pebble tapes.” If you haven’t heard them, make yourself a beverage and get ready to be a fly on the wall as your beautiful state and all its salmon get sold down the river (not the beautiful blue Nushagak of today – the contaminated, cyanide-filled Nushagak of tomorrow). We now know what our elected Republican leadership thinks of us,…
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Category ACLU, Alaska, Alaska House Race, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska politics, Alaska Senate Race, Anchorage Police Department, Election 2020, Elections, Environment, Ethics, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Headlines, Law & Order, LGBT, Lisa Murkowski, Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, Municipality of Anchorage, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Pebble Mine, Public Safety, Republicans, Skulduggery, TALL Tales from Juneau, Voting · Tags Alaska Division of Elections, Alaska Permanent Fund Corp., Alaska voting, Alyse Galvin for Congress, Bart LeBon, Ben Stevens, Casey Steinau, Corrupt Bastards Club, Craig Richards APFC, Dermot Cole, Dr. Al Gross for Senate, Gail Fenumiai, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Joe Biden Pebble Mine, Kevin Clarkson, Lisa Murkowski, Matt Buxton, Mel Gillis, No Pebble, Pebble Mine, Pebble Partnership, Pebble tapes, Ronald Thiessen, Sen. Dan Sullivan, Suzanne LaFrance, tom collier
Posted by Jeanne Devon on August 26, 2020 · Leave a Comment
GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH It’s been a very bad week for faux “family values” Christians in positions of power this week. First, Jerry Falwell Jr. was outed by the pool boy for an ongoing sexual dalliance with him and his wife that spanned seven years and began when he was barely out of his teens. This revelation prompted Falwell to 1) throw his wife under the bus and disavow his own involvement (new developments on that today) and 2) step down, giving way to his temporary (or maybe not-so-temporary) replacement, Alaska’s own Jerry Prevo of the Anchorage Baptist…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Alaska politics, Ethics, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Headlines, Jim Minnery, Mike Dunleavy, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Skulduggery, TALL Tales from Juneau · Tags Attorney General Kevin Clarkson, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Jerry Falwell, Jerry Prevo, Kevin Clarkson, Kevin Clarkson resigns, Kevin Clarkson texts, Libby Bakalar
Posted by Jeanne Devon on August 14, 2020 · 2 Comments
ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE Let’s start off with a little Facebook gem from Rep. Steve Thompson (R-Fairbanks). It takes a look at the sunny side of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hey, you guys… Don’t think of it as 168,000 dead Americans – think of how many Americans are still alive! Considering that any day now, COVID-19 is going to be the third leading cause of death in the United States, it’s hard not to wonder when Rep. Thompson will stop thinking that the “panic is out of control.” And if you google Rep. Steve Thompson, here’s his weirdly ironic…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska politics, Election 2020, Ethan Berkowitz, Headlines, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Public Safety, Rep. Ben Carpenter, Republicans, Sen. Lora Reinbold, TALL Tales from Juneau, Voting · Tags Alyse Galvin Congress, Becker for House, Dan Sullivan Senate, Dr. Al Gross Senate, Ethan Berkowitz Mayor, Leslie Becker Ministries, Pastor Leslie Becker Ketchikan, Rep. Steve Thompson, Ron Gillham, Ted Cruz
Posted by Jeanne Devon on July 24, 2020 · 4 Comments
TALL TALES from Juneau and the D.C. Debacle OOPS After last week’s edition of Tall Tales hit your screen, Dan Sullivan let all Alaskans know how it feels when your United States Senator can’t even tell the difference between two civil rights icons that he served with in Congress. He expressed his obligatory regrets at the passing of Rep. John Lewis by posting a picture of himself in front of the Smithsonian’s new Musem of African-American History and Culture with… the late Rep. Elijah Cummings. He wasn’t the only one to make this cringe-worthy gaffe – His fellow Republican…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska politics, Anchorage Assembly, Election 2020, Elections, Headlines, Health, Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, Municipality of Anchorage, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Republicans, Sen. Lora Reinbold, TALL Tales from Juneau, Voting · Tags Alaska Democrats, Alaska Republiicans, Dr. Al Gross for U.S. Senate, Elijah Cummings, Jamie Allard, John Lewis, Lora Reinbold, North Pole Santa, Sen. Dan Sullivan, Tall Tales from Juneau, vote by mail, Wasilla Santa
Posted by Jeanne Devon on July 17, 2020 · 4 Comments
I WATCHED THE MAT-SU REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FORUM SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO Yep, I watched it all, courtesy of the video taken by the eponymously-named Republican blogger, “Politadick.” There’s no easy way to prepare you for this, so let’s just dive in. But first, a visit to the United States Flag Code: THE EMCEE: Mike Coons, recently reappointed by Gov. Dunleavy to the Alaska Commission on Aging hosted a Mat-Su candidate forum this past weekend. It took place at the Senior Center in Wasilla. Why isn’t the governor’s appointee to the Commission on Aging wearing a mask at an…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska politics, Donald Trump, Election 2020, Elections, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Headlines, Humor, Mat Su, Mike Dunleavy, Nation, Oil & Gas, Rallies and Events, Republicans, Resource Development, SB21, Second Amendment, TALL Tales from Juneau, Teabaggery, Voting, Whackjobbery · Tags Alaska Democrats, Alaska republicans
Posted by Jeanne Devon on June 19, 2020 · Leave a Comment
Hey, Republicans – you’re doing it wrong. In a time when the most NON-political issues have become political third rails like, I dunno… basic hygiene during a pandemic, the Republican party never ceases to amaze. As the Black Lives Matter movement rolls forward, demanding that Alaskans and all Americans look hard at reforming our law enforcement agencies in the wake of decades of horrific inequities and violence against people of color, toxic seeds of racial division are being sown even by our Republican Congressional Delegation. Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. IT’S ONLY RACIST IF THERE’S OIL…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Don Young, Election 2020, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Headlines, Lisa Murkowski, Native issues, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Oil & Gas, Republicans, Resource Development, Rural Issues, TALL Tales from Juneau · Tags Congressman Don Young, Forrest Dunbar, Gwich'in, Sam Alexander, Sen. Dan Sullivan, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, vote by mail
Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 29, 2020 · 1 Comment
By Zachary Brown She stood in the roiling crowd, amid clean-cut college kids and potbellied dudes in cowboy hats and media men dashing this way and that. Her stringy blonde hair, her dark eyeliner, her sneakers and the flannel tied round her waist, all gave a picture of punk defiance. How ironic, I thought, given the suit-wearing merchants of the status quo she represents. They chose someone small and thin as a garter snake for their enormous, dreadful task. Meet Naomi Seibt: the anti-Greta. The GOP needed an answer to Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has gained astonishing traction…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Senate Race, Election 2020, Environment, Headlines, Nation, Rallies and Events, Republicans · Tags climate change, CPAC, Greta Thunberg, Naomi Seibt
Posted by Jeanne Devon on April 11, 2020 · 1 Comment
TALL TALES from Juneau Eyes on the Dunleavy Disaster NEVER LET A GOOD DISASTER GO TO WASTE That’s the hallmark of Republican politics. Remember the Patriot Act that got shoved through during the immediate aftermath of 9/11 – chock-full of provisions to trample civil liberties and violate the Constitution? It was basically ready to go, and waiting for an opportunity. Well, don’t think that COVID-19 isn’t going to have its own set of nefarious legislation that gets implemented during these days of crisis when people are looking the other way. We’ve already seen public money dumped into funding the private…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Election 2020, Headlines, Mike Dunleavy, Municipality of Anchorage, Oil & Gas, Republicans, TALL Tales from Juneau · Tags ACLU, Alaska abortion, Alaska coronavirus, Alaska Primary, Alaska Republican party, Jamie Allard, Jennifer Johnston, Kevin Clarkson, Liz Snyder for State House, Mike Dunleavy, Sarah Vance
Posted by Jeanne Devon on December 7, 2019 · 13 Comments
You could practically hear the eye rolling as he stared at his watch. It’s hard to say when that might be; are we “done venting” about the horrendous cuts to the university system? Are we “done venting” about skyrocketing charges at the Pioneer Homes? Are we “done venting” at incompetent, partisan cronies, and conservative talk radio hacks making six figures? Are we “done venting” about disingenuous promises used to get into office? Are we “done venting” at extreme cuts to Medicaid, homeless services, pre-K, agriculture programs, and public safety? Thumbing his nose at the Constitution and rights of workers?…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Headlines, Mike Dunleavy, Republicans, TALL Tales from Juneau · Tags Alaska Municipal League, Lance Pruitt, Liz Snyder, Mary Ann Pruitt, Mike Dunleavy
Posted by Jeanne Devon on November 14, 2019 · 3 Comments
Hey kids, it’s Word Thursday! Whether you find it grotesque, or humorous (or both), the transmogrification of Governor Dunleavy from a humble Wasilla man of the people into a self-glorifying Trump wannabe continues before our very eyes. And it’s not really a stretch to say that the governor thinks he’s Tundra Trump because he is literally saying it himself… while gazing meaningfully into the middle-distance. It’s not clear why the State Senator who voted against a budget so he could get thrown out of the caucus so he could justify quitting so he could get an early…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Governors Race, Alaska House Race, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Donald Trump, Education, Elections, Headlines, Mat Su, Mike Dunleavy, Republicans, TALL Tales from Juneau · Tags Chris Birch, Kevin Clarkson, Mike Dunleavy, Recall Dunleavy, Tim Hale