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Good morning, Anchorage and South Central Alaska.

Rick Whitback here, filling in for Amy here, yesterday, Monday and today, final day behind

the mic for me.

Then you're blessed the next three days with Glenn Beagle, then are esteemed in comparable

hostess and radio talk show goddess, returns to the airwaves next Tuesday.

Before we go to the phones, we've already got a caller.

You can join the call here with us at 907-522-0650.

I have a simple question for you.

If government is frustrating you right now, what would you actually do about it?

So if you were king for the day, what would you do?

Local, state, national, you name it, call in, let's talk about it.

But on the phone right now, my dear friend, Randy.

Randy, thanks for calling into the Amy Domboski show, hosted by a lesser-known guy.

How are you?

Very well.

I just had a call and give a joke to you and also express my great gratitude when I

was doing my GMO on a last-of-nine-sixty project to get a small and light industrial

manufacturing up here from other states.

It's just a work because what you just said, it's just a difficult situation when they

try to pin something out and they say, oh, the tax situation may shift, I mean, I can't

afford that.

Yeah, it's going to be a rough rest of the legislative session, I think, right?

I mean, we see it all the time.

So Darryl said you had a joke for me.

Yeah.

Where are penguins at least vacation spots?

I don't know, Rand, where is it?

Wales.

That was, yeah, you are correct there, sir.

The Jonah vacation, hey, I got one for you though, before you go.

Oh, okay.

Since it's Wednesday, right?

What do you call a camel with no hump on a Wednesday?

Oh, baby, you got me there.

Humphrey.

And Randy, thanks for the call.

Okay.

Have a blessed day, man.

I'll hang out with you.

Sounds good.

Talk soon.

And all kinds of great things going on up there.

Do want to let people know if you're listening in the O'Malley, an old seward area.

We did have a accident over there right now, there's a vehicle that's in blocking the

roads.

Police and choke trucks are on the scene.

So just an FYI for you guys out there might be a little backed up.

I'll have a dramatic report.

Sounds good.

And another call this morning.

Hey, this is awesome.

You're the phone and Warren, you're on the Amy Domboski show.

How you doing this morning?

Hey, pretty good.

Yeah.

How about you guys?

So it's a beautiful day here in Anchorage, man.

It's above zero at my house.

We're just taking the blessings one by one.

Yeah, that's why I'm hoping spring is finally coming.

Let's hope.

What's on your mind?

Oh, you asked a question if you were king for the day, what would you do?

Yeah.

Well, for me, I would have mandatory counseling for the US Senate, the Juno people, everybody

down there, the Anchorage Assembly, because just my opinion, what I think is going on,

it's ruling by hate and hate consumes you from the inside.

Once it gets a whole of you, if you don't find some way I let them go over it, it just

eats you, it destroys your body, and it just eats your soul.

I mean, look at Lisa McCarthy, okay?

She will not vote as a Republican because she hates Trump, that to me, it's what it boils

down to.

The Senate will not get together because one side hates the other side.

Down in Juno, I can give you an example, as soon as they find in this year, Juno people

said, oh, we don't have time to listen to Dunlaby.

You know, because we just don't like him, so we're not going to listen, even though

it might have good policies, we're not going to listen to him, we're going to do our

own thing.

The City Assembly, the same way, you go to one of these assembly meetings here, if you

disagree with them, they immediately, they want to call the police and have you removed

from the assembly meeting, because you disagree with them.

So it's really sad because nothing is getting done, and I mean, really, what rate does Congress

have?

Not to pay their own workers, you know, just destroying lives and all that.

Juno, because they don't like somebody, they're trying to destroy the state, and Anchorage,

if you're living it, I've been here 42 years, it's already not even a place to be, but

you know, we're still here in Trump.

So reduce the hate, show some love, get along, and if you were king for the day, you'd

make that happen.

I think it's a good policy, weren't you?

Well, that's US, and that was just my opinion.

No, man, I appreciate the call.

Anything else for us this morning?

Well, no, you show it's fantastic yesterday, it's usual.

I guess that my solution will be counseling for mandatory counseling for all of them.

Okay, well, you guys have a great day there.

I appreciate the comment.

Thank you very much.

I mean, absolutely.

It is.

It is just around the corner.

I keep telling myself that.

Warren, have a great day.

Thank you.

Thanks again.

I bet.

So the rest of the show, guys, and I think Warren gets the right.

If we could all get along, we wouldn't have some of the problems we have today, right?

So we're going to talk at 630 with Dave Donnelly, who wants to move from the school board

to the assembly from Midtown Anchorage going up against Janice Park in a very well-contrasted

battle of substance and position.

So we'll talk today from 630, almost all the way up to 7.

And then we are supposed to have US Senator Dan Sullivan, if he can break out of the meeting

that he's in, call in for 10 minutes or so at the top of the hour.

So we might get Dan Sullivan, Senator Sullivan, we might not, if not, we'll take calls and

just continue with the show.

And then at 730, you heard him call in yesterday, Todd Spolden from the governor's office.

He called in and wanted to chat, but we were up against a break and so I offered to give

him some time today.

So he's going to call in at 730.

So we'll still take calls.

We just have a bunch of guests here the rest of the day, but that doesn't mean don't call.

We want your calls at 907-522-0650.

I'm sure Dave will take calls.

I'm sure Todd will take calls, not going to interrupt Senator Sullivan.

That's just, we'll just keep that protocol in place.

But Darryl, anything else to add before we go to break?

You know, the only thing I was thinking is Warren has it correct?

100% correct.

Spring has got to be here because I had a bounce in my step this morning.

And I mean, if that's going on, it's definitely spring time.

I agree with you, Mr. Bunny.

Get that spring going.

Let's have spring happen.

It is time for spring.

You are right.

Hey, let's take a break, guys.

When we come back, more of your calls here on the Amy Domboski show on News Radio

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All right.

So we have a couple calls coming in, one hanging out.

Let's go to it.

Ken, three days in a row, man.

You must be having some fun this morning.

What's going on in your life and are you calling to answer the question?

What would you do if you were king for the day?

Blood pressure down because that's important.

And I think you just got to take care of that.

So I apologize.

Many car goes by 78 degrees, but I'm coming home next week.

Enjoy that warm weather.

Hopefully it'll be nicer when you get home than it is today.

I mean, it's still, it was two degrees above zero at my house.

That's a blessing because it's above zero.

So that's good.

Yeah.

I'm packing my suitcase full of sunshine.

I'll drag it on up there with me.

Appreciate that.

You know, king for a day.

You know what?

I would like that.

Try this weird thing.

And I know it's going to seem odd in Alex Jones's, you know, in way over the top,

I would try to try this thing called a representative republic.

I'd love to do that.

The idea from 250 years ago could actually live on today is what you're telling me.

Yeah, but you know, because we have this weird thing where we have business agents

that run around and legislate your activists, NGOs, stakeholders.

Can you please explain to me what in the Tarnation is a stakeholder, sir?

Could you do that?

Could you identify that precisely in our constitution?

I don't believe that word is in the Constitution.

I can almost guarantee that word is not in the state or U.S. Constitution.

But it's in every mouth of every legislator we have in Juneau and Washington because it's

a new scapegoat way out and what it is is just the aforementioned influences that we

have in Juneau and it's really in Washington.

It's really bad because we tried and we asked and we won.

And we were told, I remember old Rick Raidel 10, 15 years ago I started listening to

him up here.

He said, well, you get out of vote and we get these people in, that's what you need

to do.

So they did.

And that's what happened.

And we see the infighting and the deal making in Juneau.

And you know, I'm particularly frustrated as point reason you got, I'm sure, but the

call for what we could have if we were keen for the day.

I don't want to keen.

I don't want to represent republic.

And when I'm sitting there, I've got a legislator in committee hearing and I'm giving questions

and I'm not a special guy, but I'm just saying you're the one that's got my text on

that because you're trying to go under my support and I text you a very pertinent question

in committee hearing and you ignore it because you know it's going to turn the whole discussion

on his head.

Yeah.

It's a fact, you know, and I'm sitting there, you know, now I'm disappointed.

And as I'm, you know, almost as you can see why we have apathy in Alaska.

We're never railing on people for that voting and being involved.

But after when people do try, I've seen it now with dealing with you.

As long as I've been with you, I've seen people get really excited, work really hard.

They get the stuffings pulled up like a kid's teddy bear, a German shepherd got hold

of.

And then so now they're just this deflated give up being and get along, get along and

hope maybe they can get a scrap out of something somewhere.

But I tell you, we do not have a representative republic right now.

We don't.

It's all a deal making and people own and I'd say that all the way up to the governor

when you got the guy, try and institute globalist policy because while how are we going to

get investors if we don't do that?

So you're selling the state out for that on the speculative hope that it might benefit

us financially as a state.

I can't deal with that guy.

It's just, it's been killing me this whole time to watch these things and then I have

legislators telling me the same thing.

How are we going to get investors if we don't bow to what they want?

Yeah.

Well, one that they want is this progressive policy growth garbage.

I, the whole sentence ends with no.

Yes, where the people have no.

Go try again, but don't do that.

That's all we're asking.

Well, let's do this, Kim, just because I've got calls stacked up, I'm going to let you

go.

I appreciate your input.

I appreciate the call as always, my brother.

And I hope you have an enjoyable time there in the sun before you bring it back with

you here to the state.

How about that?

Thanks a lot, man.

Have a great day.

Have a great day.

Absolutely.

All right, guys.

Going to the phone, first of all, I want to, before I bring on the next caller, I had

a call yesterday asking if I knew what was going on in Hillcorp and I actually called

out to three of my buddies and none of them knew anything about going on and they all

should know.

So I did a little research myself.

I literally, I actually found two new sites that I've never seen before that are phenomenal

if you want to know about oil wells, gas wells, what's in production?

How long?

Where?

When declining?

And I found nothing.

Also, the only closest thing I found is that they're looking up in the Yukon, Cutsco and

Delta.

There's a bit of work going on up there, but otherwise not down here in Swanson.

Yeah.

No, exactly.

So we'll continue to try to look into that, but I understand we might have breaking news

on Glenfahren.

Let's go to the phones.

Hey, Joe.

Good morning.

Thanks for calling the Amy Domboski show.

What's up?

Thank you, love.

Thank you, Rick.

Yeah.

I've been enjoying listening to you over the years and I went to buy some stocks from Glenfahren.

And I went to my analysis page and I looked up the stock symbols for Glenfahren.

I typed them in and there's nothing they don't recognize Glenfahren.

So I did some research and found out that Glenfahren had been advertising that they built

a gas line in Louisiana and another one in Texas and that they financed it, built it and

are operating it.

Well, there's only one problem.

Those two projects have never been started yet.

I know that the Louisiana one is obviously in, I believe, still permitting, but it's supposed

to be going.

We'll see.

We'll see, right?

I mean.

So Rick, the primary reason that companies issue stocks is to raise capital, fund operations

and growth, avoid debt, reduce liability, and financial expansion.

And without Glenfahren having stocks for all means and purposes, Glenfahren does not exist.

And Michael Dunlavy and Martin Beggages, Alaska Gas Line, it's a farce.

They need to get another developer in there.

And people can Google this.

If they think they wanted to know for themselves, this is big, breaking news.

Dermot Cole broke it out some time ago.

I don't know him.

I don't know if he's a lefty or a righty.

He's a lefty.

It's a hard lefty.

And let me say this, Glenfahrens, they're privately held, right?

They're no different than Hillcorp.

They are owned by, you know, they're not publicly traded.

And there's nothing wrong with that, right?

I mean, if you have the means to raise capital privately and you don't have to go to the public

to raise capital, by all means.

I mean, John Hendrix and crew with Fury, you know, obviously Jeff Hildbrand and Hillcorp,

Glenfahrens, same thing.

If you can raise capital within your private equity, social circle, you know, to be able

to run your company, all the better.

Well, I don't think they do.

And the other thing is, the reason why people, why companies stop issuing stocks is because

they're in trouble.

They want to avoid securities fraud.

And I think it's exactly what I do not trust Glenfahrens with a 10-foot stick.

I do not.

It's over.

We need to get another developer to develop that gas line.

This is not going to work.

Glenfahren doesn't exist.

Alaska gas line proposal by Dunlavy is a farce.

Well, John, I'll tell you what.

I'll continue to look into it.

I appreciate the call, my friend.

And thanks for calling the show this morning.

And you're welcome.

I'll be listening.

Absolutely.

Sounds good.

Hey, guys, come just a couple of minutes before the break comes up.

When we come back, Dave Donnelly, who is running for Anchorage Assembly, has been the only

conservative member of the school board for the last umpteen years, right?

And now he wants to take that step after being termed out of the school board.

We've sent him there to work for us in the school board of the last three terms.

He's done.

Can't go any further.

So now he's stepping up into the uh, into the assembly race against uh, gadfly activist,

progressive all around I'll not finish the sentence, but you know where I'm headed, Janice

Park.

Um, so we want to talk to Dave.

We'll take your calls during that if you, if you want, um, I'll give Dave the first

couple of minutes to kind of you know, introduce himself in, but I really think when we, um,

when we look at the assembly, we have a great list of candidates uh, throughout the municipality

and we need to take advantage of being able to get them elected.

So when we come back here on the Ameet and Boschie show, we'll talk to Dave Donnelly, take

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As we come back to the Amy Demposky show, Rick Whitbach filling in one more day.

Glenn Beagle will be here Thursday, Friday, and Monday before Amy returns from vacation.

Special guest here calling in.

He wants to be your next Midtown Anchorage Assemblyman.

He's already done a great job here on the school board.

He's my friend, Dave Donnelly, and he is joining us now.

Welcome to the Amy Demposky show.

Thanks for giving us some time this morning.

Yeah, sure. Good morning, Rick.

Good morning to all the listeners out there.

Yeah, you know, we've already had really good discussion this morning about.

If you were king for the day, what would you do?

I don't need you to be king for the day.

I just need you to be the Anchorage Assemblyman for the next three years.

What would you do?

And why do you want to do this?

Well, you know, my roots run pretty deep here.

I was born in downtown Anchorage and grew up in Spanard and Midtown neighborhoods.

I helped my dad build houses in Spanard University Park College Village when I was a teenager.

Worked at Northern Television for three years as an engineering assistant.

Dischocky and the news camera man, which was kind of a dream job for a teenager, right?

I was not the college University of Oregon.

I got some courses in at UAA while I was in high school.

Then went off the college University of Oregon and the pipeline came along.

So I worked out on the Alaska pipeline, which is certainly one of the most interesting experiences of my entire life.

I was actually on the original logging crew that cut the right away down.

I noticed a terminal camp up to a sheep creek there.

That was with flying in a helicopter's Huey's every morning and chopped down trees.

And then we used the trees to build the access road.

It was a system called Corderoid, where we buck up the trees and lay them down side by side.

And then they'd come along and pour gravel over it.

It's a road building technique and that road is still holding up there today.

That's pretty awesome.

Yeah. Then went on to working on different VSM crews, the vertical support number crews,

installing that all along the pipeline and ended up on the fire department there in Beldees,

which was a great learning experience also.

Suppressed in fires and knocking down doors and getting people out of burning buildings.

So went back to the city's law school, passed the law exam.

I first tried here, the bar exam, and here in Alaska, and went into being a lawyer.

See Tom Overmire, it can be done on the first try.

Yeah.

And I went back to my life in Spanard, and I got really concerned about way politics were going.

And I tried to talk some friends of mine and people I respected in the run for office.

And nobody wanted to do it.

So one election I just decided, well, nobody else I can vote for is going to run.

I guess I'll run.

So that's how I got into politics.

I think that's about this.

I think you were in your second term in the house when you and I first met.

So yeah, yeah.

Go back a few years, Dave.

Yeah, I ended up being the representative from Spanard for six years.

And as a freshman, they made me had made me chair the labor and commerce committee,

because I had a lot of experience already working as a legislative aid.

And then my colleagues asked me to do that again.

My next year there.

So I spent four years chairing labor and commerce.

And then my last two years in the house, I was a judiciary chair, which was really rewarding for me as an attorney.

Then I got gerrymandered.

And I didn't have a lot of my old Spanard district left.

So my friend said, well, you might as well run for the Senate.

And, you know, I love Spanard, but ran for Midtown, feet in the Senate and won.

And it was a close race, but I won.

And at that point, I was in the minority for a couple of years.

But then they ended up on the finance committee as a minority member.

And so I served quite a few years on the Senate Finance Committee,

eventually rising up to Vice Chair, and where they allowed me to chair the operating budget.

I mean, the capital budget for those two years.

Those were rough years, by the way.

The price was down, oil was down to like $8 a barrel, I think.

And then two years as the operating budget co-chair of the Senate Finance Committee,

which was very challenging job.

But gave me a lot of good experience towards dealing with your questions about the budget.

I've got experience dealing with a really tough budget situations and proven my ability.

Because back then, we used to have to get 45 votes to access the constitutional budget reserve.

So it wasn't just, you know, we'll just go push a budget through.

Every year, I had to work with the minority members and get a 45 vote agreement to pass a budget,

which is not easy to do.

So I've got experience doing budgeting in difficult times and working across the aisle to get things done.

So on the Anchorage Assembly, right?

Lots of things that are supposedly important, like bike lanes and Title 21 rewrites.

You know, those probably have their play, but taxes, homelessness, budget, school district,

which obviously you're intimately familiar with.

If you get on the Anchorage Assembly, and I sure hope you do,

what's the first thing you would try to do with your colleagues?

Address public safety in Anchorage.

And by public safety, I mean police.

We need more police officers.

We need lower response times to 9.11 emergency calls.

We also need a full contingent of our school resource officers, too, which we don't have right now.

Right.

Very concerned about that because, you know, the threats to our elementary schools come from outside.

So we've been working really hard, and I've actually amended bond propositions to include hardening our elementary schools from outside threats.

But the threats from middle schools and high schools can originate from inside to school.

And that's what, so it's so important to have a school.

That's why SROs are so important in those schools.

Yeah, absolutely.

School resource officers.

Especially trained English police officers to be in schools and work with the kids.

Principles love them.

And the kids like them.

I mean, they're just a real asset to the schools.

Traditionally Anchorage has had 15 of these officers.

Right now, there's only 10 deployed, which means we've got high schools that some days of the month don't have any police officer defense of those schools and protecting those kids.

And that's really something we need to address right away and get.

I sponsored a resolution by the school board, which passed to expand that program to all the middle schools also.

Because they have the same kind of dynamic where a threat can emerge inside the school.

And if an officer is there, it can, you know, seconds can mean lives 1000%.

I mean, as Colby, you know, my son gets ready to go to to hands you next year as a sixth grader incoming sixth grader.

You know, one of the things that I like about that school is that I know the two, you know, ASD district security people.

But it would be nice to have an officer there just because let's be honest.

Like you said, threats can come from anywhere.

I certainly hope nothing happens.

But if you had to bring an officer who was patrolling South Anchorage into the school, it literally could be minutes.

If not, you know, 10 or more, depending on where they are and where people are coming from.

If there was an emergency situation from Midtown or East Anchorage.

So I mean, yeah, I think that's a, that's a super important first priority, Dave.

What?

Brick, you know, many states are mandating it for Texas.

I believe mandated.

We shouldn't have to wait till some tragedy appear, you know, happens to dress that issue.

Yeah, absolutely.

Let's do this, Dave.

I want to take a break.

Come back.

Catch up with you on, on your other thoughts and why voters if they have not already sent their ballot in.

Should be checking the box next to Dave Donnelly's name.

Let's do that here when we come back to the Amy DeBosky show in just a few minutes.

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We have on the phone with us and holding over so that we can continue to talk about his Anchorage assembly run.

The one and only Dave Donnelly.

So Dave, welcome back to the show.

Appreciate you holding through the break.

Let me ask you a question.

We just talked about what would be the most important thing that you would try to push when you get on the assembly.

Obviously, budgets being what they are, money has to come from somewhere in order to increase other areas.

So where is Anchorage overspending today?

Well, I think they are overspending on things that aren't the basics of local government.

My question is about common sense, restoring common sense to city hall by focusing on the basics.

Safety, public safety, the school system and streets.

And when I talk about streets, I include the port of Anchorage because the port of Anchorage has a direct relation to holding down consumer goods cost in Anchorage.

You have an efficient port.

It's going to make life more affordable here in Anchorage.

Actually, a lot of parts of Alaska because so much of all of Alaska's commerce goes through the port of Anchorage.

Yeah, 85% of the goods that come through the state of Alaska are into the state of Alaska come through that port.

So we need to be doing those things well before we do everything else.

I mean, that's the way I prioritize.

Nice.

So Alaska or Anchorage voters are being asked to decide not only on your race, but on races across town and on school board seats.

You've been sitting on the school board for the last decade almost, right?

And you've seen a lot of tension around spending and decisions that have been made by that administration.

I know you don't want to go too far out on this plank, but I'm going to walk you out there a little bit.

How should voters be thinking about the current bonds as they relate to school boards and our school opportunities and the tax questions as they relate to schools?

Well, first of all, every year on the school board, I proposed reductions to non-classroom related administration.

There's actually a state funding category required by school districts to report.

And so I would target that because I wanted the Anchorage school district to be the most efficient in Alaska.

It's the largest district in Alaska. It should be the most efficient.

And ironically, a lot of those amendments that I sponsored over the years, which were rejected by the board, were incorporated in this year's budget because they were forced to by the massive budget gap.

They were faced with. So it was kind of almost like it was kind of funny because some of the board members were saying, hey, you finally got your amendments passed, you know?

Yeah. Nice. Nice to be the voice of sanity and reason on the board, right?

Yeah. Only took a $90 million deficit to accomplish it.

Yeah. When crap hits the fan, some other proposals start to look really, really good.

Once that you've been pushing for nine years.

Yeah. So the district clearly has a spending problem and a revenue problem.

And an accountability problem and a performance problem. And yes.

Yes. All that's true, which makes the politics of bonds more complicated than this should be.

The closure of particularly Campbell STEM and Lake Otis was so inappropriate.

The failure to provide proper notice was just egregious on the part of the school district and school board.

The families in Campbell STEM had only three days notice over a holiday weekend to be able to provide testimony.

And that was their only opportunity to provide testimony.

And then they shut the school down and voted on a close vote after only 11 days.

That's not the way we should do things in Anchorage.

So there's an awful lot of hard feeling out there in the community about that.

It's just really, really difficult.

The bonds themselves are pretty solid.

But man, they just destroyed their credibility, pulling a scent like that with closing down Campbell STEM in particular.

So the last three minutes of the segment before we have a hard stop, what else would you like voters to know about you?

And as many have not filled their ballots out yet, I filled mine out over the last weekend.

You got my vote. I know we're supposed to keep those secret, but you got not only my vote, my mom's vote, and my wife's vote.

So you have three.

What needs to happen is people need to vote.

I feel great about this election if we can get voter turnout.

And I understand there's no mayor to vote for this time.

So it's not like voting for president.

Everybody wants to vote for president.

But these seats are really important to the future of our families, our neighborhoods,

just our way of life here in Anchorage.

And I've got this amazing experience that I've been blessed by the people of Anchorage

of holding office for 25 years now.

You know, as a senator or representative and a school board member, I can bring all that experience

and my budgeting experience to play here to really try to make Anchorage better than it is right now.

Dave, I am excited about the thought of having you on the assembly.

Darryl, you really want to chime in here.

I just want to say I have a group of colors that want to find more information out from you.

Here they are.

Yeah, you need to lead the sheep out there.

They've got to find the shepherd day if they do.

Well, it's donleyforalaska.com, Darryl.

Donleyforalaska.com.

And we've got a great website.

There's tons of issue policy papers on there.

There's all my position on issues, the fundamentals that voters need to know.

And, you know, I've got a lot of stuff out there on social media too.

Not a big fan of social media, but it's kind of a necessary and these days campaigning.

Yeah, it certainly is.

Here's what I'll say.

If you are an Anchorage voter in Midtown district four, I believe.

You need to exercise your right to make the right decision because it's a clear, clear choice between you and your opponent.

Dave, I mean, probably the most clear choice outside.

Maybe the Scout Millet race is close.

But I mean, like everybody else.

Oh, my goodness.

Your opponent is crazy.

Well, you know, I've stayed on the issues.

You have.

I just went off of it for about five seconds, but.

Yeah, because I just believe there's so there's so many crucial ones.

We've just touched barely touched the surface here of them, right?

Of everything is going on.

I want to protect neighborhoods from the attacks on our one zoning.

I think it's a threat to, you know, the biggest investment the family makes is in their home.

And in these kinds of changes, the assembly's proposing could really hurt home values.

Yeah, absolutely.

Dave, I'm going to cut you loose.

I know you've got a bunch of other things going on.

We're coming up on a hard stop.

But I really appreciate your time.

Thanks for calling into the Aby Domboski show.

Best to like the rest of the way on your campaign.

Rick, thanks for stepping in for Amy.

Absolutely, man.

I appreciate you, my brother.

Have a great day.

That's Dave Donnelly, everyone.

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Welcome back to live, local, and insightful morning drive radio.

On UseRadio, 650 KENI.

Dave Donnelly, our guest in the last couple of segments.

Todd Spolton coming up with the governor's office at the bottom of the hour.

We are waiting.

And I just got confirmation that he's walking out of a meeting,

getting ready to go to another meeting.

But we're going to get him in between US Senator Dan Sullivan.

Here in just a little bit here on the Amy Domboski show.

Rick Whitbeck sitting in for the incomparable one.

I got to tell you, the best time to catch Dan Sullivan is when he's between those meetings.

Have you ever seen any of the videos as he walks out the door,

gives you that brief rundown and walks back away?

I mean, the man is concise.

It's the best time.

I'm looking forward to this.

So I mean, I think that when we get Senator Sullivan on,

I mean, you know that from a, from a fighting perspective,

he loves a good skirmish.

He has had the Biden administration for the last four years before this last year with Trump.

Fighting to shut down Alaska every, every step of the way.

Chuck Schumer continuing to try to make his life miserable.

And the Democrats here, fighting every resource opportunity.

We will.

The Biden plan is now basically being dismantled one brick at a time,

which is fantastic because of the current president.

And between baggage, you know, my former boss,

because I worked for Nick all the way through 20 from the time he was seated in 2025

until the end of January this year.

And I'm proud of what he did.

We accomplished more in that office than any other freshman,

led just our congressman in this congress.

And I think we went back like 40 years and hadn't seen anything like it.

But it's because we have an amazing delegation.

And Senator Sullivan leads on things like the Coast Guard and infrastructure.

And I mean, he's he's fantastic, right?

When it comes to the military and and resource development.

So when we, when we think about the opportunities under this current president

with this administration, with this team of congressional delegation from Alaska,

it's just flat out amazing.

So let's do this.

We're going to tee it up with this thought.

Schumer is trying to shut down everything that we're trying to do good with the state of Alaska.

And so our next guest is going to tell us about what he's doing to fight it online with us now.

He is my friend.

He is your US Senator, Dan Sullivan.

Welcome to the Amy Dembosky show, Senator.

How you doing?

Hey, Rick.

Boy, that's great applause there.

I didn't know you got in studio people.

That's really great.

You know, I brought him in just for you, sir.

Good, good.

Well, thanks for what you're doing.

And Amy, great to be on the show.

And look, I really wanted to talk about the NPRA lease sale.

Because I think a lot of Alaskans are recognizing the importance.

But the background on how we got to where we did last week with the biggest, most historic lease sale in the history of our state is important.

And, you know, I know you know about it, but it's important let everybody know about it.

Yeah, I mean, 163 million dollars most in the history of the NPRA historic.

You guys have worked hard, hard, hard to get that done.

I mean, you're in your office and the delegation.

So tell me about it.

I mean, well, that's just part of the revolution.

You know, this was in many ways driven by federal actions.

The good and the bad, right?

Let's start with the bad.

You know, I've talked a lot about the Biden last frontier lockup.

But the 70 executive orders that they took to shut down our state.

But there is no doubt that one of the top goals of the Biden administration when they came in was to kill NPRA to make it a wilderness.

Now, of course, Rick, you know that's completely illegal.

But that scares the heck out of energy companies that want to invest in our state.

The National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska was set aside for oil and gas development.

They didn't care.

They were lawless.

The native leaders, by the way, on the north slope from the tribe, from the borough, from the ASRC, came to DC eight different times to tell the Biden administration don't lock up NPRA.

Right.

You need it for jobs.

The Alaska needs it.

America needs it.

They completely ignored the native voices.

And they did all these regulations to shut down NPRA.

So they tried to kill it.

Now, elections have consequences.

When the Trump administration came in, when Republicans took the Senate, we said we're not going to let NPRA die to the contrary.

We're going to lift it up, give it certainty so that we will get people to develop it.

So, President Trump put out his day one executive order on Alaska, which is great unleashing Alaska's extraordinary resource potential.

But, you know, because you were there, you saw it.

What we did in the Working Families Tax Cut Act is we got 10 years of mandatory lease sales in the law, required in the law.

And then, I was proud to lead the effort on a Congressional Review Act resolution in December.

And what a Congressional Review Act, a CRA resolution does, it rips out a previous reg.

Yep.

And it tells federal agencies if this CRA passes and becomes law, you cannot regulate in that space again.

So, God forbid if Elizabeth Warren is president in three years, she can't come and re-regulate.

They have to do mandatory lease sales 10 years of them, and the CRA made it so they can't regulate again.

That gave the energy companies certainty to say, hey, if I'm going to do a long-term investment, what do I have?

Yep.

Well, now they have legal certainty from our CRA that we passed, from the Working Families Tax Cut Act, which has mandatory lease sales for the next 10 years.

And that's why, in addition to having more oil and gas in almost any place in the world, the big companies, and as big companies, small companies, everybody came back.

Shell, Exxon, Conaco, Armstrong Oil and Gas, a great wild counter.

They said, we're coming back.

The Alaska Comebacks happening because Republicans are in control in DC, not Democrats who want to shut us down.

And that's going to be thousands of jobs and probably billions in revenues as you know, Rick.

Yeah, absolutely.

That's how it happened.

Well, and the beauty of that, sir, is that we had, like you said, multiple, multiple companies getting in, bidding on multiple tracks, right?

It is a renaissance. It's an opportunity for the NPRA to once again just help bring back American energy dominance.

And again, the NPRA is that reserve for America set aside by Congress to do exactly what we're absolutely being able to do now.

Yep. But look, here's one thing. And again, I think it's really important for people to know the threat from DC to our state on things like NPRA is not over.

It is a constant battle, a constant fight. What do I mean?

Well, the Biden administration is gone, right?

The last frontier lockup is the thing in the past.

I love to hold up that chart that we have. The seven executive orders that Biden used to exclusively target Alaska, rip that thing up.

But you know who's not gone is Schumer.

He's the Democrat minority leader.

And I have a chart that we're going to be trotting out here on my official website.

What you guys to put it on your website is called the Schumer shut down of Alaska.

And what it does, it details the ways in which Schumer and the Senate Democrats on each of those maneuvers that I told you about to get NPRA revived.

They fought them, okay? How did they do that? They fought?

Of course, they voted against the working families tax cuts act. So all Democrats voting against it.

But worse, they went through that bill line by line trying to use what's called the parliamentary procedure in the Senate, the bird rule to strip out any in all provisions that were good for Alaska.

This is unprecedented, Rick. They went through every line in that bill.

And if there was something remotely positive for the great state of Alaska, they went to the parliamentarian.

And they said, we think this violates the bird rule.

Madam parliamentarians strip it out. We went before the parliamentarian each time fought Schumer beat them on all this stuff, except for a few relating big ones relating to health care where he got it, Medicaid increases for Alaska.

But they came and trying to strip out the mandatory lease sales for NPRA. We beat them on that.

In NIN, just in December when we were on the Senate floor trying to pass my CRA Congressional Review Act resolution to rip out the Biden shutdown of NPRA and not allow them to re-regulate NPRA.

Guess you led the effort fighting against me on the Senate floor.

Schumer.

And guess what I did. I beat him.

We beat him.

That's the Senate. The president signed it. Nick did a great job.

Nick Baggett did a great job of getting this over the goal line.

But look, this caused me to look back at this guy's record.

Now I'm talking about Chuck Schumer.

And he's been in Congress since 1980.

He has the most anti-Alaska record of any member of Congress in history.

We went through all his votes. Rick, it's hundreds and hundreds of votes to shut down our state, not just resource development, which he led.

He had just has particular amnesty for Alaska Native people.

And you know, Alaska Native groups are a very important part of our economy.

This guy's the number one antagonist go after Alaska Native groups.

But it's not just that. It's second amendment.

It's funding our military in Alaska.

The guy's record is so long on trying to shut down our state.

So look, the Schumer shutdown to Alaska has been a core tenant of the leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate for four decades.

And we are going to post this Schumer shutdown handout.

The people need to see because you can't imagine a more anti-Alaska guy.

I fight him every day.

So the threat's not gone, but guess what?

We're winning. The Alaska comebacks happening.

We just had the biggest lease sale on NPRA in our state's history.

That's great for Alaska. It's great for our workers. It's great for America.

And we're winning in that regard. And that's how it happened.

It's a non-going battle with the far left Democrats whose primary goal is to shut down our great state, turn us into a national park.

Yeah, and it won't and it won't change.

I mean, unfortunately, they're not going away. So that's why it's important.

It's important to not only support the effort that you, your team and the rest of the delegation are doing,

but also when it comes time for August and November to make smart choices when people go to the ballot box, right, sir?

Well, look, I mean, empowering this guy to be Senate Majority Leader.

Lord Schumer, the most anti-Alaska member of Congress in history, would be Alaska Suicide.

I mean, this guy's got a rap sheet. Like I said, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of votes against our state and actions.

And I just explained a couple of them, but they were big. I mean, that was unprecedented in what happened last summer.

Blind by line on a bill that is one of the most historically positive bills for Alaska.

Schumer and the Senate Democrats went through it line by line to strip out everything good for us.

Oh, I remember fighting like hell. You saw it.

I remember those guys and we beat them on a most everything. You know, the one that was kind of a real gut punch for me.

We, because I always thought the Medicaid formula for Alaska was unfair that we needed a higher match in terms of what most states got in terms of Medicaid for their state.

As one of the lowest in the country, I finally got my bill over the goal line in that working families tax cuts to get a dramatic increase in Medicaid from the federal government to Alaska.

The guy who went and stripped it out with Schumer and the Democrats, which is, you know, a real irony given some of the ads you may have seen for our left groups running.

Disgusting. Disgusting and typical of his record. Your team just sent me that Schumer shut down document. It's, yeah, post.

We're going to get that out there. Alaskans need to know this guy's record and what he's doing literally daily.

And like I said, the NPRA CRA, which in many ways was the catalyst for this great lease sale that we just had because it strips out legally.

The Biden lock up and then it makes it so federal agencies can't redo that.

He fought me on the floor in December and we beat him and that was critical to this great lease sale that we just had.

So it's exciting times. You know, we got a lot of challenges, but boy oh boy, you know, there's some things we're working on the rebuilding of our military, which by the way, Schumer is always against the ice breakers coming to Alaska.

They try to strip all of those out in the bill. All this is things that we've been talking about, Rick, as you know, but now we're not talking where we're doing it.

Even the gas line, we're not there yet, but you know, I think this is the moment.

This is the time. This is the moment. You know, the other thing I've been talking about, cutter, a lot of our producers, a lot of our Asian allies have been doubling and tripling down on Katari gas.

And for well over a decade, I kept saying to them in public and in private, hey, why would you triple down on Katari gas? They're in a very dangerous neighborhood.

If there's ever a conflict with Iran, because they share the same gas field, I have no doubt Iran's going to put a missile through their LNG facilities.

And look, I'm not happy about it, but unfortunately that just happened. And that's 20% of global LNG.

And if that's not the moment where people wake up saying, maybe I should diversify my LNG purchases, get them from Alaska, which is right across, you know, the North Pacific, six day cargo shipment to Asia.

The time is now. So we're working on that issue every single day.

And by the way, the dam is all opposed that. I was going to say the end and the dams hate that idea too, right? I mean, they'd rather give.

They'd rather give away our energy security and our dominant opportunities at every turn.

You can't make this up, but I know for a fact I even confronted them directly Biden's climates are John Kerry went over to Asian more than one occasion.

I got this firsthand from the Asian allies. He met with any told them don't buy American LNG. Don't buy Alaska LNG.

And I confronted John Kerry. I said, what are you doing, man? Like that's treasonous. Why would you say that?

But they're just hell bent on making sure our state doesn't benefit from what we need, which is American energy and our workers who are the best in the world.

Well, Senator, anything else you got got for us. I know you're busy in DC. I love the call, man. It's it was great to get that yesterday.

That note and and bless us with your with your time today. But we have about five more minutes. If you want it, if not, we'll we'll let you get back to the work you're doing in DC.

I'm, believe it or not, I'm heading into a really important meeting right now with the habitual investor in the Alaska LNG project right now, but I look, keep up the great work.

You and Amy are doing a great job getting the word out. You know, it's not always easy to get the word out with our media in Alaska.

But these are the things that are going on here. These are the things that matter, you know, when I gave my speech to the Alaska legislature.

I highlighted the comeback that was happening because of Republican policies because of Republicans in the executive branch in the house in the Senate.

And then I walked through this Schumer shutdown. I walked through all the elements of what he and the Senate Democrats tried to do to undermine Alaska.

And some of them said, well, that was a part of Senate dress. It's not partisan. People back home need to know who's for us.

And who's absolutely. And I think that's really important. And we know who it is. And it's not Schumer and Democrat senators. I can tell you that I fight these guys every day when they come after the interest of our great state.

Senator Sullivan, thank you for your work in DC. Thank you for always putting Alaska first. And thanks for calling into the Amy Domboski show this morning.

Okay, Rick. Look forward to being on again. Keep up the great work. Thanks, sir. Have a great day.

I see you.

Senator Sullivan giving us some giving us some of his time here. We have a caller. Let's take it. We'll go to the bottom of the break.

And it's Amanda. Amanda, thanks for calling the Amy Domboski show. What's on your mind?

Hey, the calling in with an assembly update from last night.

Sure. What what happened last night of the anchor assembly?

Oh, man. It was it was a big night for all things education. I just really encourage everyone to either recording at the beginning.

There was this amazing talk on education from a local Jewish leader because that simply passed resolution for commemorative day of education.

Okay.

So we, you know, come where on that high plane, just all the important things, he really praised the moral spiritual responsibility of, you know, people in education.

And then it came time for the ASD officials to defend their budget that the assembly was set to approve.

Sure.

And that's where just the contrast was so, so incredibly different.

There were a long line of Campbell parents who testified and let assembly members know just how public process wasn't followed.

There are, you know, that like a respectful public process wasn't followed in their school closure, how, you know, excellent programs like art, gifted, and these are all being targeted for closure.

And then the superintendent had to defend those before the assembly.

And I'm guessing he shocked and jived his way through that defense because there really isn't a defense for the, for the mismanagement that they, they have under his leadership.

Yeah, what is interesting, he wouldn't, he wouldn't talk to those directly, but he did give why it's important for it to actually really see what he, you know, do that segment was, I picked up on how they're really viewing.

The closure, they're picking tools to close because they can get money out of those tools that they close.

They can get state bond debt reimbursement that is fungible and can use it however they wanted.

So if you listen to his talk, you can see that.

I think they found a cash cow with the charter schools moving in these old buildings because the charter schools, if they move in, they have to pay them.

They pay the maintenance exactly, yep, that's, that's how they, when they closed my, my son's school and avid loop, you know, in the first round of closures, right.

They immediately moved, they immediately moved the Alaska native charter school in.

And then when the Alaska native charter school moved over to Lake Hood, when they closed that, they moved in Rikashula.

And now they're going to move Rikashula over to Lake, over to the Lake Otis so that they can prop that building up and apparently actually get rid of avid loops.

So it's kind of a shell game of, of shuffling responsibility away from the taxpayer so that they can get actual revenues, maintenance fees, things like that.

From charter schools, which ultimately hurts the charter school because they now don't have the budget that they would normally have to be able to produce the educational outcomes that, let's be honest, parents send their kids to charter schools for.

Yes, and it, yeah, that's what became really apparent. So to move charter, to move Rikashula and to Lake Otis, they have to move three student populations.

Right.

Three school populations, right. And it's just saying, you know, where's the transparency of those several assembly members.

So really the amazing thing that happened was that five assembly members voted down the budget.

Yes, it would have ended the symbolic act pretty much, but it did, I think it did get people worried.

Well, if they did not think comfortable with that at all, so I think it got their attention, but something, you know, they're kind of on the high alert right now.

But that thing was that I know it's election season, right. They was not a conservative turnout at the assembly meeting. So I just encourage our listeners, you know, these local meetings seem that are like, I have to step away for a bit.

I need to take care of my kiddos. You can turn my life to right. We all need to take turns doing this, but I think for everything you're doing.

Absolutely. I appreciate it. I mean, I'm going to let you go because we have a hard stop right now because we blew through it with Senator Sullivan, but certainly appreciate the call in the update.

Thanks. How did I do? You got it. You guys, we're going to take a break. Come back with Todd smolden from the governor's office.

We'll see if he's taking your calls here when he calls in and if not, we'll finish off my time guest hosting the Amy Domboski show here with Todd.

I really appreciate you tuning in this morning. It's been a great show so far. Todd's going to join us here in just a bit.

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You know, Darryl, we had Senator Sullivan on last segment.

And you with your severe amazing talent were able to find a clip of Senator Sullivan and Chuck Schumer having a minor disagreement on the floor of the Senate.

And we wanted to share that with listeners this morning here on the Amy Dombowski show.

Yes, hosted by Rick Whitbeck. Go for it, dude.

I think that's about what happens every time that Schumer sees Sullivan and Sullivan see Schumer in public, let alone in private.

On the phone now finishing off the show with one of my long time friends he called in yesterday.

He wanted to chat. We ran into a hard stop break. I asked him to call back.

So now let's do it. Todd Smolden, one of the leading, amazing former educators now working with the governor's office.

He's a fierce advocate for responsible government. He's my friend.

And he's now on the Amy Dombowski show. Good morning, Todd.

Hey, good morning. Was that Mase Wimby, a sparring with Emperor Palpatine, or was that Anakin Skywalker and Ben Kenelby on most of the bar?

That was Anakin that just so you know.

I mean, I couldn't I couldn't find it. I couldn't find it fast enough. Darryl was all over it.

So yeah, it's great to talk to you again this morning. And we'll probably have a little bit more time.

I'm happy to take phone calls. I actually one of the things that I do in the governor's office is I respond to emails and to phone calls.

And I've been doing that for quite some time, especially when there are hot topics, I will request that all of those things get sent to me.

And especially if people are contrarians, because the one thing I've discovered in my seven years in the governor's office is just how many people don't understand either how our system of government works.

You know, with the three branches and who's responsible for what? And I also have come to realize that there's a lot of really bad information out there.

There's a lot of people who assume motives. And you know, they just have bad information. And I'm going to say ignorance in the kindest sense of the word, because that's what it is.

It's ignorance, a lack of knowledge. And so yeah, so I take that very seriously. As a former educator, I want people to understand the truth and what's happening.

And so yeah, I take a great pride in trying to communicate with people and help them to understand what the governor's motives are, why he's putting forward the policies he's putting forward.

I think that you do an outstanding job of advocating for the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish in a very, let's say sometimes non-workable environment, right?

So let's get to it. What are the top couple of priorities that the Dunlevy administration and the governor want to see happen between now and the end of his term here coming up in December?

Yeah, well, I mean, obviously the last couple of years there was a big push by the governor. And I say obviously because if you're paying attention to politics, you're well aware that the governor was spending a lot of time on education issues.

It seems like he has been interrupted by disasters during his seven years, you know, seven and a half going on eight, you know, COVID and other things.

And so it's unfortunate that we've had the level of disasters that we've had, including the Biden administration, because in some ways that reduced the amount of time we had to focus on strictly his agenda items.

But the last few years education was a big push, of course. And then this year, we're really trying to focus on not only the regulation changes through AO360 reducing regulations, but also, of course, the gas line.

And I didn't get a chance to hear everything Joe was saying, excuse me, because I was also getting ready to go to work and get in the car.

But I think that what Joe is demonstrating is exactly what the problem that we have in Alaska, and it's a culture of no, and rather than a culture of north to the future.

And so, yeah, the gas line is a huge issue. Right now, we seem to have at least one senator, a couple of senators that are trying to do everything to stop that.

Senator Diesel, I don't really understand what's happened to her. Maybe you can explain that to me. I sense you're from Anchorage.

But yeah, it's pretty sad what some of the legislature are doing right now with the gas line as the governor tries to get that over the finish line.

Well, let me just say this. It's a twilight zone world when Kathy Giesel is against the tax or against the gas line. And Bill Wilkowski comes out in favor of the gasoline.

Well, I mean, relatively speaking, right? Like, I was playing twilight zone music in my head when I saw that.

Yeah, I mean, I appreciate that. And, you know, Senator Walikowski is for the gas line, kind of like he's for the full PFD, right?

I mean, he says he's been in favor of a full PFD while he continues to vote and do things to take people's PFD.

So I'm not ready to trust Senator Walikowski on that, but I understand exactly what you're saying.

I'm not anointing him as the man that you should put up in front of the, you know, the Japanese and the funders, right? Like, I wouldn't.

But certainly the messaging is different than his colleague, Senator Giesel. How about that?

Yeah, most definitely. And, you know, what? It's appreciated because it is nice to recognize the end of four, four people who are, I guess, on the opposite side of the political spectrum of the governor to recognize what a huge potential it is for our state.

And, you know, I guess I just, I don't get too excited because I think Senator Walikowski also changed the governor's revenue legislation to include what a 17% production tax change it from 4% to 17%.

So I'm going to hold off on my enthusiasm for a little bit on Senator Walikowski and his oil and gas policy.

But, yeah, so the gas oil is a huge, huge push. You know, the other thing I mentioned is AO360.

But I, I guess what I wanted to spend more time talking about is really just how people, especially in the legislature, the actions that they take, which indicate that they really don't understand economics.

And, I, I am continual. I continue to be very non-plussed. There's a, there's a word.

Oh, there you go.

Yes, I be wildered at what, at, at, and, and this is politicians who say they're fiscal conservatives who continue to, to claim that they want to save their,

constituents from taxes. Well, at the same time, they are spending more and more of the PFD for government services.

And I'm not, I want people to understand something about, about the PFD. And I think from the governor's perspective, why he supports the PFD.

Hey, Todd, can, can, can we pick this up after the other side of the break?

Because I think that's, this is a good, this is a good breaking point, right?

And then we'll come back to the governor's point about his, or your point on the governor's stance on the PFD and why it's not being loved on like it should be by the legislature.

How about that?

Sounds good. And I'll take calls Rick if anybody wants to call it.

Yeah. So I was just going to say if anybody wants to call in and talk to Todd, 907-522-0650, we're going to take a quick break.

Come back with the last segment of me guest hosting the Amy Nibboski show here on News Radio 650 K E and I.

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One last segment with me co-hosting or guest hosting the Amy Nibboski show.

Our guest here, my good friend from the governor's office Todd Smolden, let's bring him back online here.

Hey Todd, again, appreciate you holding through the break while we were and I know we want to get to the governor's position and thoughts on the permanent fund, the permanent fund dividend.

Bruce called in and asked if you had changed your mind about the about the legislature moving to Willow.

So let's catch that before the end of the show, but let's talk about the permanent fund first.

Yeah, sure. Well, I can take, actually I can take that one real real quick. Rick, no, not only no, but can you say hello on the radio?

I think you can. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, if that happens, I would be at the burrow building in that city the very next day.

So I'm going to set up the lighting and then also finding a realtor to sell my house.

So there's a lot of, I think there are a lot of people who, you know, the last is kind of a transient state.

People come and go, you and I have been here forever, but, you know, not everybody makes it.

And so I think there's a lot of people that don't really understand the purpose of the PFD.

And so let's start there real quick. You know, the very first lease sales when oil was discovered in their release sales, it was $900 million was collected on those lease sales.

Which, if you think about the MPRA, right, that was a record. And I think they're solving for, for shepherding that.

But we're talking $900 million in 19, what was it? $79.

So the value of that, if you think about the value of those lease sales and the amount of money that was, and the legislature in about a year and a half blew through that.

They blew through it. I mean, it was, I'm not going to say that it wasn't, there weren't good quality, you know, capital projects and other things.

Some of them was built, but a lot of it also just was special interest, you know, government waste and want.

And so the reason why the permanent fund and the permanent fund dividend were established was to get that money into the private sector and to protect it from being protected.

From being wasted by government. And here we are today, you know, 40 some years later, and we are living out the fear of governor Hammond and those who voted for the permanent fund dividend and established permanent fund because the legislature is spending all of the earnings now almost all of the earnings from our oil revenues.

And what are we getting for it, Rick? Like, what are we getting for it? We're not even getting capital projects.

No, we're getting more money to a BSA. And I'm going to remind you and people of this that more money for the BSA, which the governor supported an increase in the BSA, but he also supported education reform.

We had three quarters of the legislature, including a bunch of Republicans, who voted to override just a partial veto of that.

So when you have the legislators who claim that they're fiscal conservatives, while they continue to take the PFC money out of the private sector to give to government, we have a serious problem.

I'm not, you know, the governor is not in favor of the PFC because there's some welfare program. He's not in favor of constitutionalizing the PFC because, you know, people quote unquote, need it or he likes quote unquote free money.

He's in favor of constitutionalizing the PFC and protecting the earnings reserve account with a constitutional amendment because that's the only way we can keep it from legislators and from them wasting it.

The argument about the PFC, unfortunately, since governor Walker decided to confiscate portions of it.

That was a nice choice. That was nice. That's a nice way to say skill.

Yeah. I was trying to think of how I could say, say exactly that word and not say that word.

Reallocate how we want to call it will probably be there until, unfortunately, I think you and I are long gone from this world.

Unless we can get a constitutional amendment. I'm not saying that I'm in favor of full PFC being put in the Constitution, but let's just say this.

It needs to stop being the political football that it is every session with the games of well, we can't give a full PFC this year.

We can only give this because, you know, because we need it for education, we need it for, you know, this program, that program, we need it for capital.

I mean, like, guys, legislators, I know you're listening, figure it out, please.

Yeah. I hear the music there, so that's what I was going to say is the governor proposed a constitutional amendment.

He's really, he's very willing to work on what that constitutional amendment is.

Um, he proposed a plan, but there's room to compromise on that.

And I, it would be great if the legislature would actually be that possible.

As always, appreciate your time, my brother. Have a great day.

Yeah. Now, if you talk to you later, right?

All right. Sounds good.

Hey, guys, that's the end of my time here guest hosting the Amy Domboski show.

It's been an absolute pleasure of the last three days.

I look forward to another opportunity down the road and tell them, God bless.

God bless America, Alaska, Darryl, great job.

Listeners, you're fantastic. Have a super rest of your hump day.

What a fun.

By the way, Humbernickel bread is a camel's favorite, uh, favorite sandwich bread.

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