I am in Anchorage 56 in Palmer, 50 in Soldata, 47 in Homer, McCarthy checks in at 48, Fairbanks at 57. Prudhoe Bay at 29 Seattle's at 59 New York 65 Akaroa New Zealand where it's getting to be fall 52 Pensacola Florida 84 Tampa Florida 88 Kifton Georgia 88 Lake Havasu City 96 And London, England is 59. Some of the places that actually admit to listening to this radio show. Which, you know, these are brave people. What can I say?
Well, a lot of news today. We'll get into it all. You know, don't go anywhere. Stick around. You'll find out everything you need to know and stuff you probably didn't know or maybe didn't care about. But nevertheless, we'll present it in an... Entertaining an informative way It's a lot of pressure. I know. It's what it says here on this sheet that I'm reading from. Of course, the legislature today overrode the governor's veto of the education bill.
And, you know, I got to say, and I'll get into this in a bit, but I got to say I'm surprised that there were so many Republicans who voted. along with the Democrats to pass this. The bill passed 46 to 14. Now, that was well over the 40 votes that it needed to sustain, to override the veto. But the governor's got a couple of other things he could do. Whether he's going to do them or not, I don't know.
One of the things he could do is to say, okay, fine, you overrode the veto. It now goes into law, but not so fast. Because I am the governor and I have line item veto power, so I am going to veto the amount of money. I'm going to reduce the amount of money that you have placed in this bill. And he can do that simply by taking out his red veto pen and putting a line through the amount and changing the amount. Only downward not upward.
Okay, so we could do that the effect of that essentially would be that the legislature Would then have to call itself into a special session which I don't think that's going to happen and Override that now that's going to take 45 votes because it's a three-quarter threshold to override a funding veto. They got 46 votes. Well, I'm not so sure that they can hold those 46. That's just my guess. So I'm thinking if he does that, and I'm not saying he is or isn't, I haven't talked to him,
If he does that, what happens is the funding drops to whatever he says it's going to be until January and the legislature can go back. Now he certainly can do that. And if I were governor, guess what? That's what I would do. He also has another bill, Bill 113, which is that internet bill that's out there that was going to be used, and so far, I mean, it passed, but he hasn't made any decisions on that. That was going to go ahead and help fund... some of the education bill.
What he could do is he could completely veto that thing if he wanted to, and then there would be no money to do what some of the legislators want to do with that. So he's got plenty of power. You know in his in his quiver so to speak
The legislature wanted to do that to keep costs down. The lawmakers funded the reading incentive program by linking the passage of a separate bill That would require large out-of-state businesses like Netflix and Amazon to pay corporate income taxes on the money they bring in from Alaskans. There could be, you know, if that thing goes, then there's no money for that unless and until the legislature overrides that.
This is far from being done. I don't know what the governor is going to do. He wasn't particularly happy, I gather, from my sources. And we'll see. I mean immediately what he can do is wait till they leave and say okay I've got 30 days or whatever the time is. I'll wait and I'll just veto this money before the end of the fiscal year. And then when the new fiscal year hits, you're going to get what I tell you you're going to get until you say otherwise. And maybe you won't.
So we'll see. We'll see what happens along with a whole bunch of other crazy things that could happen. All right. Let's do this. Let's take a break. And when we come back, Representative Kevin McCabe from Big Lake is going to be calling in. Kevin was one of the people that voted no. And we'll ask him why and we'll ask him what he thinks. So stay with us. Back to the Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on News Radio. Looking at your last total traffic camera.
I'm familiar with the lovely part of the world called Southern California. In June, for some reason, there's lots of, you know, clouds and foggy looking stuff and then it burns off. And they call it June. But, nevertheless. All right. Kevin McCabe, Republican Representative Kevin McCabe, maybe we may make him a senator, why not, is on the line. Kevin, welcome. How are you? Hey, Mike. How are you? Well I'm, I'm good as good can be, as well can be expected. We did a little bit of chat on the
the education bill, and I kind of wanted to get your take on this thing. A lot of Republicans voted yes, surprising me, I guess, to the point of 46% to 14 was the vote. And I'm just shocked that that many Republicans who had said no voted yes. I'm confused. Well, likewise. I mean, they all sort of have their own reasons. And keep in mind that this was a vote to override a governor's veto. It wasn't really the vote on the education piece.
So there are some other politics at play here. And I can't really speak for any other Republican or any other legislator. They just They'd make their votes for whatever reason. For my reason. Because I still believe in the governor's vision of having an actual bill with actual policy change instead of just a huge mega funding bill for the school districts, which I felt this one was. Well, I think you're right. So there are some things in there
That really it's pretty watered down. I mean there's no shells There's a lot of maize and perhapses and things of that nature so there's really nothing in there that mandates Much of what the governor wanted Yeah, I mean, when the governor first put it in and when we started negotiating it and trying to put things in, you know, we said things like, well, there will be no cell phones in there.
in the schools during the school day, right? I mean, you know, all day, no talk, or there's some special phrase they have for it, but When it came back to us, it was like, well, there will be a definite possibility of a firm maybe that the school district might... Keep the cell phones out of the classroom. And that's not right. That's not what we wanted. We wanted the teachers to be able to lean on the state and say, no, you cannot have your cell phone in the class.
Because the state says you can't. And then it takes it away from the school districts, away from the school boards, away from the teachers, and lets us be the hammer, if you will. Well, that didn't happen. Now, there's another part of this thing that is a little confusing to some of us, maybe to most of us. And that is this what is it is it House bill or Senate bill 113? That one is confusing what that does apparently is it helps with this reading part of the bill
It's completely separate. It's a separate bill, but it's going to tax big businesses like Amazon and Netflix to pay corporate income taxes on the money they bring in from Alaskans. But there isn't anything in there that says that these guys certainly can't pass that along. And usually that's the case, is it not? Well, yeah, that's true. And there's all sorts of explanations for that. And it's a corporate tax. It's not a point-of-sales tax.
So what we are doing is saying, hey, you do business in Alaska. you make a certain amount of money off of our infrastructure and off of our people, so we're going to tax you much the way we do the oil companies. I think it's wrong. I don't necessarily, I mean, many of the cities do the same thing, or they have a sales tax, point of sales tax on an internet purchase.
I think Juno even does that down here if I remember right, but You know, I'm not a tax guy, and I'm really not a fan of tying a piece of legislation such as the Reeds Act that was in the Reeds portion of HB 57. with a funding mechanism that may or may not also survive a governor's red pen. So, you know, to me, that just complicates matters. creates issues where maybe there shouldn't be issues. So the governor has said on numerous occasions he doesn't like taxes.
And... This bill I think is Probably and again, I don't know right the more I watch this stuff the more I think to myself I don't know what I'm watching That seems to be in jeopardy if nothing else maybe that's a nice way to put it I think the governor will most likely veto this. If that happens, then what happens to the Reese portion of the act? Does it just go away? Does it not happen?
So there were several iterations of that. I happen to agree with you, Mike. I think the governor, I will be shocked beyond belief if the governor does not veto that. It will indicate that maybe there's some other negotiations behind the scenes that I don't know about, but you're absolutely right. He said it a couple times. He's also said he's not a tax person, and I believe him when he says that.
But from my reading of it, and I could certainly be wrong, if that bill is vetoed, then all of that portion of the reads... of HB7 goes away, that it's just not funded. I mean, it'll still be there, but it just won't be funded. It will have to be funded in some other manner. And keep in mind this whole internet tax thing.
The Department of Revenue says we won't see a dime from that until 2028. And that's what we found out in the Fiscal Policy Working Group when we explored sales taxes and income taxes and all that kind of thing. It is not something that happens overnight. It takes a long time to put it in place, to hire the people, to set up the accounting, to set up the electronics or the Internet portion of it.
So it's not certain that that's even going to be able to fund anything until 2028, even if it should pass. So that thing is kind of that's on the shelf really until we see a lot of money coming through Yeah, it's total smoke and mirrors. It was just to satisfy those that said this was a huge spending bill, and we need to go find a way to pay for it. So, you know, that's a total red herring, if you ask me.
Well, it's going to be interesting to see what the governor does. Do you think, and again, I don't know any more than anybody. In fact, I keep thinking I know less. I suppose and surmise that the governor certainly could reduce the funding in Bill 57. In which case if he does that the legislature would have to call itself into a special session to try to override that which would take 45 votes I'm not so sure they could sustain that or do that I think some of those which might peel away
But in any event, I don't think they'll see the legislature going into a special session. They would have to do that in January. In the meantime, that money doesn't go anywhere. So really, what was won today if the governor does that? Right. Well, that's a good question, and I absolutely agree with you. I don't see us calling ourselves back into a special session for a veto override.
I doubt seriously there would be the votes to do that, but, you know, I've been surprised down here before. So, yeah, we would have the first five days in January to, uh,
to override the governor's veto, any of his vetoes, either in the budget or veto of SB 113. So it'll be interesting to see, but certainly... I know that the majority of the folks are out there claiming this is a victory, but I'm telling you that We would have been way smarter to negotiate with the governor and find a path forward that included the things that he wants for our children, the policy changes that he wants to help educate our children.
than we are doing this sort of battle the governor at any cost methodology. It's nonsensical to me. Our kids are going to suffer. Our school districts are going to suffer. Yeah, that's I think Kevin I think that's really the bottom line here the ball isn't being advanced At all and and we don't have anything lasting
And it looks like it's just going to be more and more contentious. And of course the governor can't run for re-election, which is good and bad. Sometimes you might just say, well, I've got nothing to lose. You guys want to want to go ahead and get reelected have fun I don't I don't know what he's going to do, but I have a feeling that you know If there were somebody else sitting in that chair, they might do something just like that
Well, I don't blame the governor, frankly. You know, I've been in the governor's office and meeting with kids, and the governor has a big focus on kids. He's been an educator all his while. And, you know, you can go, you can bring your child to a meeting with the governor and he'll say hi to you and spend the next hour talking to your child.
And he loves kids, and I think that he would like his legacy to be an improved school district, an improved education system in Alaska for our children, because right now we are at the bottom of the pile. Well, think about this in private business, Kevin. If you are failing and always at the bottom of the pile, do you really think people should be spending more money on doing the same thing?
Well, that's the definition of insanity, right, is throwing money at the problem and expecting different results, right? Exactly. And it makes no sense. It really doesn't. Well, I guess, you know, the summer's coming up and hopefully you get home and maybe enjoy some summertime. That would be nice. Well, that would be really nice. A little bit of, a little decompression and, uh,
See all the honeydews that my wife has over the last four months and try to get those done and see if I can enjoy the little bit that will be left to myself. Somehow I think it's going to work out. Kevin, I appreciate it as always. You're a good friend and thanks for coming on and sharing your thoughts with us. We'll see what happens. I'm with you. I want to see the best for our kids. unless they're sure this was the path. Yeah, no, I agree with you 100%.
All right. Listen, have a good trip home, and, you know, we'll touch base when you get back. Thanks, Mike. You bet. Representative Kevin McKay, Big Lake, 428. We'll be back. Get on with Mike and Crash weekdays at 3 on News Radio 650 KENI. A guilty verdict for the man who kidnapped and assaulted a woman, 41-year-old Martin Natala, is being convicted of kidnapping and three counts of first-degree assault.
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This is News Radio 650. KENI Anchorage. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday afternoon. Steady traffic around the Anchorage Bowl. No major stoppages. Palmer 50 and sold on a 47 and homer McCarthy's 48 Fairbanks 57 and Trudeau is a sizzling 29 well It wouldn't be... the end of a legislature unless we got some words of wisdom from Judy Elledge who has been here in Alaska for a number of years and been very very active
in Republican circles, especially with Republican women's clubs. And Judy, welcome. How are you? Well, I'm great. How are you today, Mike? Well, I'm doing fine. We just had Representative McCabe on, and he kind of gave us some of his thoughts on what happened with the education bill. So, what are your thoughts? Well, I'm sorry I missed that. I, uh,
He doesn't like the fact that I think he wrote something about people throwing arrows, and I understand that. I've been in politics a long time, and I try not to, but, you know, if you don't clean up your own house, it's really, really hard. to talk about what the other house does. And I'm very disappointed today. I'm disappointed in the fact that it seems like
the same lies that we've heard from educators for years and years and years. You know, we get new parents, so the lies start over again about how poor they are. And, you know, I got sent about, that's kind of funny, because I was told that that the Democrats were just worried they were shaking in their boots because they had voted for it. and all the good policies it had in it. And I said, well,
I've been an educator in this state for almost 50 years, and I don't see anything that actually is going to change outcomes at all in education. A lot of it are suggestions. If not, they don't actually have to do it. And that's kind of like with the COVID money, the superintendent gave the teachers a 5% raise instead of working, giving it to the parents who actually were at home teaching their kids or helping them. The kids that were falling behind. And so I just, it really bothers me.
When people, most certainly Republicans, and there are some Republicans who are very honest about it, and they don't lie. They may be a lot more modest than I am, but they tell the truth. But when I see people that are supported by conservatives, and they say one thing, and then they get to Juneau, and I hear, oh, well, we have to vote for this because some of our colleagues won't get reelected.
Well, my comment to you is if you're making a decision because of your reelection, you probably shouldn't be a legislator. And I feel very strongly about that. And, you know, Mike, you and I are both at the edge. I don't really, you know, I mean, I'm a loyal person. I've been very loyal. I give people more than one chance. My red line has always been, will you override a city?
Republican governor, and you're Republican, and you vote with Democrats, which you did. And, you know, there's a great book called The Art of the Deal, and they all need to read it because they got played. Because I heard that all the Democrats wanted $1,800 per student and no reforms. And so now we have all of this. Well, honey, it's called out of the deal.
They knew they were going to get $1,800, but they got $20 more than they did last year when they had one time funded, and they got $700. It's almost funny because they lost that art of the deal. And my thing is, you know, we didn't put... When you play with Republicans, when you... Say that a Democrat is your friend or that you're going to win something.
I've got some, I mean, I can't believe that. I mean, in seriousness, you know, how were Republicans treated this year by all the Democratic legislators? They were spit on, they were treated like dirt. The only time they ever reach across the table is if they think they can get something. And they normally do. And I don't see Republicans getting anything. You look at this. And it wasn't just this education bill. It was a lot of other things.
But I didn't see Republicans getting or conservatives getting anything, but I saw the Democrats getting a whole lot. And so it's just like, you know, some of us have been around a long time. Just be honest and just say, you know, I was weak. I just wanted them to get it. whatever you wanted to say, but don't try to tell me this malarkey about what a good deal this education bill is, because it's not
It's getting close to a quarter billion dollars a year. Our budget states are, what, $78 a barrel? I think, what is it, $68? They're coming after the update, which they did. And I still, I don't still see how they're going to, oh, they took money from Ada, who's trying to work on the pipeline with the president, and they took it from UAA. I don't know if that's bad, but my point is... their continued spending, even with Democrats, do they not care that the state may not be able to do this?
That's my reasoning. How do you think that any of this spending is good for our state? Maybe you can help me see it because I don't. Well, you know, They continue to do that. That's just the nature of you know of the beast so to speak Compromise is do it my way and the Republicans I don't know maybe they maybe they have no self-esteem or something, but they want to be liked and
I don't care if you're liked. I want you to be effective. I want you to work with the other side. There's no reason not to try to work with somebody, but you don't basically give up everything. Because you want to be liked. And this bill, looking at it just strictly from the standpoint of what it's going to do, it's going to put more money into the schools. Okay? However, there's no correlation between the amount of money a school gets and the outcome that a school produces.
And we've seen that over and over and over and we are literally the definition of insanity. We have not tried anything new the governor at least was trying to say let's put some metrics on this let's let's have some situation where there's You know there's there's a tie between what we're doing and what we're spending spending and how we're getting to the places we want to get to but that's not happened
And I've got to tell you, you know, a lot of these Republicans are friends, and I, you know, spoke nicely and try to help them get elected. But, you know... I think we need to have a different conversation now. And I'm not happy about what they did. They've got their reasons. I'm more than happy to listen to them. I'm more than happy to give them the opportunity to tell us why they did what they did. But I've got to tell you...
It's gonna take a lot of convincing or as Ricky Ricardo would say a lot of explaining because this one is This isn't going down too easy. Well, and one of the things is, you know, I've always tried to be careful because we are in Anchorage and even my club, even the Anchorage Republic Women's Club, we're probably more diverse than maybe some in other places.
And so I try to be cautious, and I do understand that in Juneau, you're not going to elect the same person that you're going to elect in MAPSU. My goodness, we're not stupid. But when I see some of the legislators in Anchorage, and we don't have that many as it is, They come to pretty conservative districts, and they did this. They're not from the east side of town. They are on the hillside and one of the largest Republican districts over on the west side.
And I just, it's like I don't understand what they don't understand, you know. And I think the reason we sent that letter yesterday Yesterday to them and text. We had written a letter earlier, encouraged them to please not do so, blah, blah, blah. It was ignored. I think I heard from one person. We did send a letter. We did not publicly put it out because I didn't choose to do that.
I don't want to put everything out there, you know, in front of the world that we may be negotiating. But, you know, I think... that it hurts the Republican Party, which you know, I am very much Republican. I don't apologize for it. I'm a conservative Republican. I don't apologize for it.
But I think the number one thing that I hear, from people when they say they're not Republican, they're undeclared, they're non-partisan, or they're not involved, they don't want to vote, they don't want to get involved, is when you are elected a Republican, And they become a Kathy Giesel, which you and I both sub-collect a few times. Or they go down there and they become acting like a Democrat. It is the number one frustration that I hear. And I'm thinking, okay.
Somebody, and we do kind of, oh, we're careful. We don't want to make them fun. And these are my friends. I've known some of these people for years, and I do consider them friends. But my point is, if we're losing races, Republicans lost terribly in Anchorage. Why is that? Why is that? And I and my board... think that it's because we are not standing for those principles that we say we're going to stand? How are you going to defend? And I know that they had
teachers and parents calling them constantly about, oh, we needed this money in the past. But my God, how long have you been a legislator? They have done this for years. They cut all of these different programs. Because they get what they want. And did they cry? And did they scream? Did they get exactly what they wanted? Yes, they did it with...
with Republican votes, and even when the bill was passed, a bunch of them voted for it. And it kept telling me what a great bill it was, and it's like, oh my God. What do you think is great about this? Where are the outcomes? Did you know that Anchorage itself has like a 40% attendance, bad attendance record? There is nothing in this bill, nothing that addresses attendance. addresses what happens if you don't get those assed outcomes. What are you doing? See, I
I know that a lot of Republicans are big school choice and homeschool, and I support that if you want to do it. But I'm a public school teacher. I worked on the border, and I spent many, many years in rural Alaska. My heart belongs to that kid who maybe doesn't have a parent. that either doesn't care about them or that's a single mom at Walmart who doesn't have the money to put their kid in private school or can they, you know, homeschool them. I care about that kid.
That's the kid that I have spent my entire adult life fighting for. And you know what? It doesn't matter whether it's the poorest kid or the richest. We are supposed to be responsible. for what we do when we have money. And I think everybody knows the Ingrid School District doesn't do much, but you know what, Mike? They just voted back everybody that was in the assembly and the school board. so you know I'm just as angry at the people that
say they're conservative, but I never see them out there helping. I don't see them out there helping get a candidate elected. It's not just the fault of the legislators. Is there going to be a consequence? If there's no consequence as they get elected again, you and I are wrong. Obviously, the public doesn't care, do they? No, that's not very interesting. There's just several women's clubs. We work hard and we're tired of it.
Yeah, well, I hear you Judy. I I think there's there's gonna have to be some some changes and You know, there will have to be consequences. There will have to be a change in the way Republicans do things. And if they don't, they're going to be relegated to number two, period. So I appreciate you calling in. Unfortunately, we're kind of out of time here, but thanks so much for doing what you do.
Thank you. You're welcome. You bet. All right, Judy Elledge. For 449, let's take a break. We'll come back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on NewsRadio. K-E-N-I I don't want to talk to a show.
basically asked that you either hang on until the, uh, next hour or a call back either one we Probably not going to get to you in this in this particular segment, but crash I don't want to tell you about Ma Johnson's You know, McCarthy is where my Johnsons is and it's located in the very center of Wrangell St. Elias National Park, the largest protected wilderness on good old planet Earth.
And right next to McCarthy about four and a half miles as the crow flies is the town of Kennecott which is pretty famous. So, when you're seeing McCarthy, you're going to want to see Catacott as well. and of course a place that you want to stay is at Ma Johnson's. Now it's a restored boarding house. Each room is unique and includes period pieces from the town's heyday over a hundred years ago, but it is updated with 21st century creature comforts.
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That's the place to go. Yeah, you got people coming up from out of state. You want to show off the state of Alaska. Take them to the town of McCarthy. It's unlike anything they'll be able to experience any other place in the town of McCarthy. They've done a real good job maintaining the old-style, old-school, wild, wild west field.
of how the state used to be, combined with the creature comforts that Mike mentioned. You're going to want to visit both of those places, and you're going to want to take advantage of what the outlying area has to offer. The town of McCarthy in and of itself is tiny. You can walk it in a matter of minutes.
But the area it's in is absolutely massive. And it's Alaska in a truest sense of the word. You get out and enjoy the great outdoors there. And again, if you're going to bring people up here, it's not a trip they will soon forget. They'll be remembered for the rest of their lives. It really is that unique.
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This is unbelievable. Follow us on Facebook. Tell us what you... and see what you're... News Radio. F-D-K-E-N-I on Facebook. Hi folks, I'm Scott Jansen, the Mushin Mortician. I've run the Iditarod sled dog race seven times and was honored to receive the Sportsmanship Award. zero six five zero let's go to Jay IJ Hi, Mike. I'll make this quick. I know you got people behind me. Comment number one. We have the best legislature that money can buy.
Number two is that school district override thing. Keep them stupid out there in the bush because we can cheat them out of their mukluks and parkas and fish. Number three, I will go back to Gettysburg. I'm witnessing a government of by and for the people, and it has perished. I'm just livid about the Republican rhinos we have. And there's not much else I can say.
Thank you for the time. It was well worth the 40 minutes wait. Thank you, Mike. Thank you, Jay. I appreciate it. All right, let's go to Kingsley. Hi, Kingsley. Kingling, this, uh, Mike, yeah, hey, listen, uh, um, Good comments from the last guy. Essentially, what I want to say is, you know, 50 years ago, I was visiting with Grace Butrovich, John Butrovich's wife. And she told me, she said, you know, she said, you know, I used to think.
that if we spent more money on education, we could solve a lot of problems. Now this was 50 years ago. Right. increase all this money stay on education, and the problems have increased. So there's a correlation coefficient here. To his credit, the governor has pointed out that, hey, we need to change some things. Throwing money at a problem isn't going to solve it. I mean, you can throw all the money you want at a drug dealer. I mean, at a...
let's say a meth head or something, and all he's going to do is buy more meth. And he's just going to get worse. He's going to auger in. And I think that's a good picture of where we're at as far as our education system in Alaska. We used to have a wonderful education system. I'll point out that we had Almost the exact same number of miles of road before oil money than we have today. And our schools, even though we didn't have any money, some or another, our schools were good.
So what's happened Mike? Throwing money at a problem is not solving it. It's like only making it worse. The problem is structural. It's systemic. We need to get at it. And we need to start undermining it. I guess the only thing I can say is, if you've got kids in school, grandkids, get them out of there. Put them in private school. Put them in home school. Figure it out. Get them the hell away from that outfit. It's just augering in.
Yeah, unfortunately it is, and that's a major problem. It is. Until we get people to take care of it and fix it, nothing's going to change. And Mike, that's the problem. And the party, the Republican Party, We get these young candidates who run, and they're not mentored. Because remember, they are creatures of the system. that we're talking about. You know, like these people in their 40s, like Mia Costello, Rob Yont. These are people who, you know, have...
have abilities, but they're creatures of the system. And we've failed them, I think, in the sense that we haven't mentored them. We haven't said, hey, look. There's a better way. You might look at this or look at that. And so we think, oh, great. We like to these people. They're good people. And look, they both voted. override the veto. So I'll just leave you with that. Alright, I appreciate it, Kingsley. Thank you. Alright, 5-2-2-0-6-5-0, it's 512.
And, you know, what can you say? We're not moving forward. This is not the education bill, but it's indicative of the democratic Caucus the majority caucus Now I want you to listen this it's it's a it's a different subject, but it's the same problem Democrat-led majority blocks federal grant infrastructure development. Okay, so what's this about? In a final day of the session. By the way, they're gone now. They've returned.
Senator Mike Schauer, he's a good friend of the show, Republican from Washington, attempted a procedural vote to move H.J.R. 14 out of the Rules Committee and onto the floor. Okay, wanted to get a floor vote on this thing. HJR 14 is a resolution that would help Alaska apply for a federal grant to complete the Port McKenzie Rail Extension and the Northern Rail Extension.
The resolution was requested by our federal congressional delegation to help get the approval for the grant in Washington DC. Now for those of you who are not familiar with this, They understand why this has to happen. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, wants to turn Alaska into Alaska. He wants us to realize our potential. One of the ways we can do that is with infrastructure.
The rail extension would be helpful our own congressional delegation asked for this The binding caucus of the Senate majority voted no. despite the resolution having bipartisan support in the Senate and passing unanimously through the House 40 to nothing, effectively killing it and our opportunity to support our federal delegation prior to the June 30 deadline for a grant application.
Currently 184 million dollars have been spent on the rail extension and there are only 32 miles of track and even less rail bed left to be completed. The Senate majority, by stopping this resolution, has caused what will be the loss of thousands of good paying jobs, including union workers, billions of dollars of investment into Alaska, and decades of economic growth. These rail lines are the linchpins for numerous statewide economic development projects.
Today's vote exemplifies the weak governance caused by binding caucuses being employed by the Democratic-led majority. Despite multiple majority members supporting and wanting to vote, the resolution and saying that they would vote for it once it reached the Senate floor. Due to their own binding agreement, they were forced to go against their conscience, constituents, and what ultimately was good for the state of Alaska.
According to Senator Schauer, I have long opposed the concept of requiring legislators to compromise their votes on any issue. The Senate Minority Leader continued. Today's vote is a perfect example of how dangerous it can be to consolidate power into the hands of one or two people who can control the entire process of passing or killing vital policy. It is not too early to begin thinking about next session, which begins January 2026.
As each legislature takes the time to reflect throughout the summer, the Senate Republican caucus hopes our colleagues choose to analyze the consequences of putting personal politics above prosperity. So what just happened? I said this yesterday and I'm going to say it again today. They're not your friends. They're never going to be your friends. Even if you give them what they want, they're going to still find a way to get rid of you when you are no longer useful.
If you don't understand that, I'm gonna say this, get the hell out of politics. That's the way it works. Here's example number one of why you cannot trust this. Instead of holding tight to your positions holding tight to your core values You get this nonsense To say that I'm disgusted would be putting it mildly. I hope you are as well. We'll be back.
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The survey crew being there, the state survey crew, we were going to build a road to Canada from there, and it saved a couple hundred miles on the Alaska Highway. Back then, the state was promoting development and progress. And the history of that. Copper River Northwestern Railroad is the Guggenheim's put it together to a very prosperous copper mine. Yes. And then we had the Great Depression, and the Guggenheim didn't get together with the Roosevelt president.
And so the federal government stepped in and they had to close their railroad. I don't think they ever ran out of copper. But, you know, that's how the government, federal government, gets involved in Alaska. Yeah, they do. Sometimes they're good and sometimes they're not so good. Yeah. But it's really good to see President Trump getting involved with economic development here in Alaska.
Since he started saying, let's do this, we're finding more and more minerals that we can develop here for our economy. We need to build railroads to our minds because that's the most efficient way of moving ore. And the board typically needs to go to... the waterfront, the porch, so it can go down to refineries, other places. We need to finish the railroad from Point McKenzie to the Alaska Railroad. We need to make it all one system.
You know, our legislature is holding us back on economic development, and I just don't understand. No, the legislature does a lot of strange things. And this one in particular, where this is money that our own federal delegation wanted, And we need, what, 32 more miles of track to get this thing moving and finished. It makes no sense. It really doesn't. I know, and that's almost nothing in terms of modern dollars.
Exactly. But, you know, I was on Anchorage Assembly for years, and I've looked at the Port of Anchorage for many years, and the Port of Anchorage has its own technical difficulties, and it has no room to expand. You have no room, Doctor. to bring in pipeline pipe and store it until it gets sent up the pipeline of the railroad to Fairbanks or wherever it's needed to put in the new pipeline.
Point McKenzie has lots of acreage to store stuff and for incoming stuff and outgoing stuff. And so we're being very short-sighted by not... making Point McKenzie very viable. I know, but you know, you understand how these things work. It's about winning a political point, sometimes at the expense of your own state, which is pretty sad. It is, and it's like everybody's just trying to keep us at the park. Yeah, I don't know.
We know what we're doing with parks. We know what we're doing with development. We do a pretty darn good job. If they would just allow us to be who we are and do what we can do, everybody wins. And that's right, because when they get done being online, they typically make it into a tourist attraction. Exactly. As there's a ground there, that means even more tourists can get there, kind of thing. I can't explain it. You've been here a long time. I've been here a long time.
And sometimes I just wonder what we're doing. Sometimes you look at people and say, why don't you just get out of the way and let somebody do something that knows what they're doing. You know, we need to think big, build a railroad to Nome. Nome has minerals to develop. Nome has a port. You know, we could ship things out that way depending on... on what needs to go where. It's just we need to have a, we need to think about developing Alaska.
You know, I've been here a long time. What do we do? I don't know. Dan, it's always good to talk to you, my friend. You take care. We've got to take a break, and we'll talk to you soon. Later. you bet. Alright, 529. Stay with us. We'll be The man who kidnapped and assaulted a woman is now facing 99 years to life in prison. After being convicted, 41-year-old Martin Hytala is committed to kidnapping and three counts of first-degree assault, restraining and strangling a woman several times.
He was sentenced in November. Lawmakers are overriding Governor Dunleavy's veto of an education funding bill. 46 lawmakers voting in favor of the override late last night. The proposed bill will provide $700 in base student allocation, bringing the per-student funding to nearly $7,000. The governor had said the bill lacks sufficient education policy reform
He does maintain the right for a line item veto. The wings on two Alaska Airlines planes hit each other while being moved in Seattle. Ground service was in place for the planes at SeaTac. The incident happened Saturday. Nobody was hurt. and the passenger transferred to other flights. The FAA is investigating. That's Lace. I'm Jack Cronin.
Looking at the Alaska total traffic cameras on this Friday evening. Steady traffic around the Anchorage Bowl out by Lindsay Glenn Highway now backing up there at Airport Heights and 5th Avenue with traffic backing up on both directions of Airport Heights. Good afternoon, Mike. Yeah. It is after 4.30. I just wanted to make sure everybody was clear on that. Yes. And since I no longer have my former co-worker, Dave Steeren, who lives in Anchorage,
Yes. To beat about the office anymore, I thought I would call and thank you and Crash for once again making the Mat-Su Valley look spectacular. Oh, okay. Well, thank you. We're happy to do that. And I, you know what I mean. Every single elected legislator from Anchorage, I will include Eagle River, although one of them from Eagle River is included, voted to override the Republican governor. and give the NEA exactly what they wanted.
Right, exactly. Spectacular. I mean, thank you once again, Anchorage legislators, for making the Matsu look good. And they don't understand, Todd, the very basic thing. And I just read that story from Mike Schauer. regarding the railroad and the fact that we essentially just decided we didn't want any federal infrastructure money to complete that rail spur. What they do is they don't understand that they are useful until they're not.
And just because they voted with the Democrats on this one, doesn't mean the Democrats are going to say, oh, we love you. The Democrats are going to try to get rid of them. Well, that's kind of what I thought the general school of thought was, but then I heard Senator Young, who is the only representative from the MATSU, Tell me that if I didn't... vote or want the vote to go the way he was going to vote, and I love Rob, and I'll have this conversation with him personally as well, but
that somehow I was dumb. So I'm trying to figure out, so at this point, I guess eight of the nine legislators in the map, Sue, are dumb. I'm trying to figure out how that works out. Well, I don't know how it works out, but I know quite a few of the legislators there and I don't think they're dumb.
No, in fact, you just earlier in the show spoke to my representative, Representative McCain, who is certainly not dumb. And I don't know if people saw the letter that he put out. I'm sure he posted it on his Facebook. He details quite well in that one-page letter why HB 57 was a terrible piece of legislation to support. It's all funding. There's no guarantees at all for any reform.
Any reform language that is in that piece of legislation has words like may in front of it instead of shall. So you know what? you know what we do with that in Alaska. I mean, she even sometimes shouts in front of it, and we still ignore it. So, yeah, I don't know why Republicans, and again, it's after 4.30, so...
I'll say the word Republican. I don't know why Republicans would want a pat on the back from the NEA, but I guess if that's who you want to get in political bed with, it certainly is your choice. Absolutely. Todd, I appreciate your phone call. Yeah, have a good rest of your day, Mike. You too. All right. By the way, it's 537, in case anybody wanted to know what time it was. All right. Jody, you're on. Hi, Jody. Hello? Yes. Hi, Mike. So... Yes. I am... I am at a total loss.
And I guess the only way to get Republicans in this state to do anything is to just really piss them off. I mean, I don't know if you can. Evidently not. I mean, because unless it's a big election year like voting for president, we don't go out to vote. I mean, your last election in Anchorage had, what, 16%? It was pretty bad. I mean, that's pathetic. And even out here in the valley... People don't go out to vote. And I'm thinking, okay, so...
So our legislature in Alaska is full of nothing but a bunch of Democrats and liberals who pull this kind of crap all the time. And nobody cares. But they really like to complain. And as far as I'm concerned, if you don't vote, you have no grounds to complain. I'm at a loss. I'm just really at a loss. You know... I've been here 35 years. I've lived here longer than I lived where I grew up. I didn't come to Alaska to change it.
As a matter of fact, I moved where I grew up because California moved in and wanted to change it. It's like, well, if you didn't like where you came from, why do you want to change it to be like where you came from? Just go back there. Exactly. Exactly. I love Alaska. I'm very happy here. But I am totally amazed at the fact that... People don't want to stand up for what they believe. I mean, why is that? Why don't you go and vote? What is the deal with people?
And it seems to me that the only way to get them to do that is to really make them angry. Well, I wish that they would start getting upset. I'm upset. You know, I guess it has to come close to home. You know, when they start picking money out of your pocket or causing something serious with your kids is when you start getting angry. And maybe that's the deal. Because they're certainly not angry enough yet. And they need to start.
They do. They absolutely do. I can't believe they let all of this stuff slide. I really can't. Anyway, thanks for listening to me, Ben. I hope you guys have a great night. And I'm done. Okay. Thanks. All right. Let's go to Lynn. Hi, Lynn. Hi, Mike. How are you today? Oh, I'm doing alright. How about you? You know, I've seen better days, but you've had some really good callers. I like Dan Kendall's comments about the railroad.
not turning Alaska into a park and all that. And the other people that called in were pretty good too, even that McCabe guy. You know, I'm the other half of that, that, uh, McCain. family and the reason I'm calling in is because if people are tired of politics and they're ready to do something now that the Bedlam in Juneau will be dying down. We have need of people to work on the ranked choice voting repeal effort.
So if you're interested, you can go to Repeal Now AK on Facebook or on access Repeal Now AK. and follow the page and then go look at the calendar and it tells you when there are events coming up. And you can go sign there, but you can also sign up to be a signature collector by... Getting on the webpage, which is repeal now, aka, I think it's .org, but it might be .com. I'm pretty sure it's .org. And sign up there to...
Become a signature gatherer. We've got over 40 volunteers in the valley that are working on it We've got events coming up quite a few this week. Actually, we've got a a rodeo and a car event and there's a signing along the Park Highway in Wasilla tomorrow for like three hours in the afternoon. So if you'd like to be able to do something, it's really hard when you see the legislature doing things and you have no say over it.
But we do have a say over ranked choice voting if we can get it back on the ballot. all right well then I appreciate your phone call thank you thank you have a good evening all right it's 5 43 let us take a break we'll come back The Mike Procaro Show with Crash on News Radio.
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And well, I'm sure this is we're not we're not done with this yet the governor still can veto the actual amount of money that is there And I have a feeling that he might do that. At least I'm hoping that he will. I think that would be a...
Something that we really need to to get in touch with them about because If you don't do that, if you don't let him know what you're thinking, and if you don't let your legislators know what you're thinking, and a lot of times they'll go ahead and vote thinking that they're doing the right thing.
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That's another option. And if you don't like what they did, there's always elections. And you can get rid of them that way. So, you have the power. See, this is what a lot of people don't understand. They're not in charge. You are. You just need to get involved and you need to exercise that power. If you don't, you're gonna always be disappointed. You're always going to be disappointed.
So you need to get involved. You need to exercise the power. That's for sure. Well, Crash, there's a soundbite that I found regarding Joe Biden. Don Lemon, you know who Don Lemon is? I do. Don Lemon was a principal anchor on CNN. And back in 2018, he had a guy named Rick Wilson, who is a know-it-all...
Talking head blabbermouth and that's as nice as I'm going to be to the guy part of the Lincoln project hates Trump Looks down on other Republicans and thinks he's the smartest guy in the room always Well every time this guy opens his mouth he proves that he's not So back in 2018 he was on with Don Lemon And he was talking about how Donald Trump was going to be taken out of office by the 25th Amendment. Go ahead and roll. Just be honest with America. Come clean.
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Okay, so they were talking about Donald Trump being a dangerous man, mentally unstable, who puts the country at risk back in 2018. Obviously, none of what this guy said was true. And they were talking about how they were protecting Donald Trump Fast forward to this year and looky looky what happened. Who was the president that was mentally
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They really don't. All right. Well, Crash, you're going to be gone tomorrow. I am. And we wish Miss Sophie all the best in her graduation. here and we've got some other exciting things to To plan to do and who knows? What's going to happen I'm going to try to find out if I can what the governor is thinking but it's worth a try. All right, I'll see everybody tomorrow. Thanks. of participating, and have a great evening.
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