On a Thursday. May 22nd year when I learn 2025 And we're glad to have you with us. 53 in Anchorage, 55 in Palmer, 56 in Soldot, no homers at 49 as is McCarthy. 63 in Fairbanks 32 in Prudhoe 65 in Seattle New York checks in at 52. Ocaroan, New Zealand at 56. Pensacola, Florida, 83. Tampa, 87. Diffton, Georgia, 88. Lake Havasu, 103. And London, 50.
So, Crash, how was the graduation yesterday? Good as it gets. All right. You successfully navigated elementary and middle school, now on to the big time. All right. Well, that's good, you know. You know, next year is going to be a whole different world really. High school. And I told her, there's not much I can do for you. I mean, if you have a problem at school, number one, your homework was past me in fourth grade probably.
I couldn't really help you after that. And then she has problems with like bullies or anything. All those eighth grade boys are bigger than I am. That's right. stage and they all look like grown ass men they're shaving yeah they're all like 13 i think half of them drove Well, it's, you know, it's good. She's growing up.
And now the fun starts. Yeah, but it's not really the fun because we're in that weird phase where she's too old to be that cute anymore and she's too young to kick her out. So she's kind of like in the middle there. And she's a teenager, which means she knows everything. She knows everything. She hates everything and contributes nothing to the machine that has cost a day crash.
That's true. Do you get the eye roll? Oh my god, are you kidding me? She just rolls them continuously 24 hours a day just in case. It's like when I was a kid and my dad would whip my butt when I woke up in the morning just for what I might do later that day. Sophie just walks around rolling her eyes all day because she knows she's going to need to use it sooner or later. It's perpetual motion there with the eyes rolling all day long.
So did she have any kind of party or anything after that? No, afterwards, her school, Rokashula, it's over, I don't know where you'd even describe it. It's over, what's next to it? It's by Polaris that used to be. Oh, okay. The Polar Theater? Yeah. It's on that same kind of street over there. And then back into their school, you can walk through the woods. There's a little lake area there, and then there's a big park.
So after they did the graduation ceremony, which I don't know if I'm exaggerating when I say it was probably about nine hours long after we got that done. We all walked over. Don't get me wrong. I think it was great. And they did a great job. And the kids were awesome. But I just wanted to stand up and say, you know, in the grand scheme of things, your life is going to get a lot worse. So just enjoy this, right?
So after that was over, everyone walked through the woods by the lake and then went over to the park. And they had set up tents and grills and all the parents brought food. Yeah, so all the kids showed up. And then they gave all of the graduating 8th graders the commemorative... 8th grade school hoodie thing on there. Their mascot is a panther. So they brought all the kids up on stage and the kids fill out a questionnaire.
And then as they called, my last name starts with an A, so Sophie was first. So, you know, Sophie, this is what she liked about this school. This is what she wants to do moving forward. And they did that for her. Oh, 40 of the kids. And then... Have you ever been to your son's t-ball game or an elementary school talent show?
Take my word for it, this was longer. So they brought all the kids up, read their little bios, and then they did a slideshow of all the kids, because her school was a little bit different. You don't leave for middle school. It was kindergarten through eighth. So,
A lot of the kids she graduated eighth grade with, she's known since kindergarten. And they're all moving on to the same high school together to continue the German education there. So they read the questionnaires. Then they made the kids all go sit down again. And then they brought them all back up after the slideshow.
to give them their diplomas or whatever, and then everybody went over to the park. And then my daughter, they had hamburgers and hot dogs, and we spent an ungodly amount of money we don't have on feeding the kids and all that. She didn't want to eat any of it. She wanted to stay for 10 minutes, then she'd maybe take her to Chili's.
My daughter, it's her favorite restaurant in the world. It's Chili's. Really? For her, that's fine dining, man. That is, that is, I know you're wrong, I like it too, but that's, It doesn't matter. We'll take you out anywhere you want. You pick any restaurant you want, and it would be Chili's every single time. Chili's? Wow. Yeah, they've got a white cheese macaroni and cheese that is really, really good.
well you know what it's it's fun and as they say high school is around the corner and that should be That should be interesting. Well, it's good for me too, though, because I do the morning stuff. So I didn't have to, this is the first time in, you know, nine months, I didn't have to get up at five o'clock in the morning, make a lunch.
yell up the stairs 17 to 25 times hurry up that type of deal and then we get into a fight every morning because she's almost she's late all the time and then she goes to school mad i come to work t out i don't have to do any of that i got to sleep in till like seven o'clock this morning And I get that for the next three months. Well, that's really good. I'm glad to hear that. I just left her at home with a bus pass this afternoon. I don't know what she did.
Okay. Alright, it's 413. This is kind of an important story. There was a positive test for measles, which of course is a very highly contagious virus, but it's also quite preventable. This is from the Anchorage Health Department. They sent out an alert and a juvenile
in Anchorage has tested positive and This is this is interesting. So if you were at any of these locations during the times and dates Take heed or if you know somebody who was and you have been exposed to them you might want to you know just check in with your doc and if you don't have if you're not been vaccinated or have not had the measles You might want to check. Anyway, the Fly Trampoline Park at 11051 O'Malley Center Drive in South Anchorage.
was one of the places between 2 and 6 p.m. on May 10th. Okay. Target at 150 100th Avenue in South Anchorage between 4 and 8 p.m. on May 11th. And finally, the YMCA at 5353 Lake Otis Parkway between 6 and 9 a.m. on May 12th. The minor tested positive for measles yesterday, according to the health department. It was not clear how the juvenile got the measles or whether the person had traveled.
The agent the person was not revealed either by the health department so once again the fly trampoline park On O'Malley Center drive in Anchorage two to six on May 10th target 1050 West 100th and South Anchorage from 4 to 8 on the 11th of May and the YMCA at 5353 Lake Otis Parkway between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. on May 12th If you were to at any of these places or know people who were
And they've come in contact with you or your kids or what have you, you might want to check with your doc because measles is very contagious. And if you've had the shot and you have had the measles, You probably don't have to worry too much. But if you haven't, you might want to check into it. We'll be right back.
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I'm Daryl Dean. This report is sponsored by Alaska Center for Dermatology. Alaska Center for Dermatology. With thousands of five-star ratings and excelling in dermatology and patients. 650 KENI. What are the symptoms for measles? And okay, here it is. Symptoms for measles can appear 7 to 21 days, typically 10 to 14 days after you have been exposed. So here's what you need to look for. SHUT IT DOWN! GET A MASK!
High favor, cough, Runny nose red watery eyes Rash usually beginning on the face and spreading downward to the chest and back and into the thighs and feet Typically starts two to four days after the onset of the above symptoms. What do you do if you get it? Do they give you like some sort of medicine? Does it go away on its own? Or do you just die? It goes away on its own.
So it's not like rabies. No, it's not like rabies, no. You don't want rabies, but you don't want the measles either. The measles, basically, you know, you get a shot now. I mean... in the old days. Most kids who are in the Anchorage School District, isn't that one of the vaccinations they make? I think you have to get it, but I don't know. I guess
I don't know, can you object to getting this? I don't know, because I remember when my daughter was starting kindergarten for the first couple years, it was, is she up to date on her vaccinations, and she is, so I'm assuming she probably got the measles. Now, I'm old. I don't know if I was required to get it when I was younger.
I mean, I always have some type of... I don't know, but I always have some type of rash, so... I don't want to know. I don't want to say you're a rash. No, no. Keep your shirt on. Please. Thank you. I mean, I always feel sick and have a rash. And your eyes run. Yeah. Eyes are red. I don't feel well. I don't really have a headache. I mean, that's it. I have the measles.
Well, in the old days, we just went and played with kids that had the measles and we got the measles. Hey, Darryl, come in here and look at this. No, I don't want to see your... No, I don't want to see that. It's a good thing this is radio. And don't take pictures and post them either. Don't worry. No one needs to see that. At least of all me.
So I thought when you said there was big news that we needed to get out there, I thought you were going to talk about the NFL not banning the tush push. Well, I didn't think they were going to ban it. I did. I thought for sure it was What? Get a little push. A push. for this season After the NFL. There you go. I prefer the term brotherly shove. Yeah, brotherly shove is a little better. But you can do, yeah, I thought for sure it was going to get banned. They needed 24.
owners to vote to ban it and 22 voted to ban it. Well, those 22 need to get their heads clear because it's a legal play. If you don't like it, then learn how to do it and use it. I just think it looks soft. And the Green Bay Packers are the ones that initiated the whole rule change. They did. And the thing is, to be fair here, though, it's not the GMs or the coaches or the players that vote on this. It's the owners.
And it would have been a bad look, I think, for the NFL to ban the tush push. In the same offseason, the Eagles just won the Super Bowl. Because then you're like, oh, we're going to take something away from a team that they perfected and they won the Super Bowl, so let's get rid of it. I think next year it will be gone. They just got to flip two more owners to their side and it'll be gone. I think the thing that saved it was Jason Kelsey flew and gave a speech at the meetings.
Well, or learn how to do it and do it better than the other teams. suddenly you'll be on the side of the tush-push. Right, because people calling it a rugby play, that's just something you say. It's not a rugby play. It doesn't look anything like a rugby play. And if you're saying that people don't push each other in the NFL, what?
And a running back gets the ball, gets stood up at the line of scrimmage, and the whole O-line is behind him trying to shove him forward. Look at a goal line. The one thing that, in my opinion, gives the offense a decided advantage in this is the offense knows the snap count and the defense doesn't. So the offense knows when the ball's going to be snapped and they can get kind of a jump on it and the defense kind of has to react.
instead of initiate the contact. My answer to that is if you're playing against the Philadelphia Eagles, don't let them get to third and one. Exactly. You know, figure out a defense against it or make sure you do it as well as they do or close to it and then... suddenly the game gets even you know don't don't You don't take something away because somebody learned how to do it better than you. Right. You figure out how to either do it better or...
come up with something on your own. Well, I think it was kind of ironic that the vote was 22 to 10. So 22 owners voted to ban it. But Green Bay initiated this whole thing. The vote was 22-10, and last year the Eagles knocked the Packers out of the playoff. Final score, 22-10. 22-10. All right, well, what can I say? God wills it! Well, you know, if you've got guests coming up this year,
Or you just like to go out and see the real Alaska. Well, let me tell you what McCarthy is calling it is located in the very center of Wrangles and Elias National Park This is the largest protected wilderness on planet Earth. It is unbelievable. And one of the sister cities, in fact, the sister city of McCarthy is Kennecos, just four and a half miles away.
And so where would you stay if you were there? Well, there's plenty of options, but for my money, it's an easy call. The best of all the options is Ma Johnson's Hotel. It's very much in line with the town you're in and the outlying area. And what I mean by that is, the town of McCarthy, at one point, as small as it is, was the most heavily populated area in the entire state of Alaska, which says a lot. I mean, the state's absolutely huge.
It was, you know, it was the beginnings of the state, and it had a real wild, wild west feel to it, and the powers that be, meaning Neil, He's the head cheese there in McCarthy. He's done a real good job maintaining that whole old-timey Wild West feel without sacrificing anything you need to have a nice, comfortable stay while you're there and that speaks to the town as well as the hotel you're going to want to stay in. It's a restored boarding house. It's been around forever.
um there's conversation starters on every wall every room is unique unlike the last room you were in it's it's completely and totally um Like something you're not going to see anyplace else, as is the case with the town of McCarthy as well. So you're going to want to get there. You're going to want to spend a couple of days because there's all kinds of outdoor activities to participate in. Flight seeing, glacier walks, nature hikes, you name it.
They've got it. Wildlife. You're going to want to visit both the Salmon and Bear and the Golden Saloon. There's tons of stuff to do while you're there. So as Mike mentioned, if you've got people coming up from out of state and you want to show off the great state we live in and love so much, it doesn't get any better than the town of McCarthy and Ma Johnson's Hotel. So let them know that they heard it with Mike and Crash.
Book yourself reservations today, and it won't be a trip you soon forget. All you need to know right there online at mahjonsonshotel.com. Give them a call 907-554-4402 That is 907-554-4402 We will be right back The Mike Procaro Show with Crash on News Radio. K E N I
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Officials there say record visitor numbers are coming for the winter months in August, expected to be the best month for tourism this summer. And a bill that would legalize sports betting in Alaska is still under consideration. It's being moved to the 2026 debate.
the state legislature. If it passes, it would allow up to 10 sportsbook operators to be in Alaska. The House Labor and Commerce Committee held a hearing for the bill. It's being allowed to carry over to the next legislative session. That's the latest. I'm Jack Cronin. This is News Radio 650 KENI Anchorage. Look at the Alaska. Total traffic cameras on this Thursday afternoon.
Legislature adjourned yesterday or whatever the heck it was So they're no longer a threat at this point until January They didn't give the governor what he wanted. They gave the governor, they waved at him only with one finger, I think. And now we'll see what the governor does. Is he going to veto or reduce the funds in the education bill that passed? If he does, Then the Legislature is kind of
going to be out of luck to change anything until January, considering I'm hearing they're not going to call themselves back into special session for an override. So that will put everything back to where it was. Whether he will do that or not, I don't know. He might. He might be sufficiently upset at them to do that. Will he let the, excuse me, Excuse me. The internet tax bill passed. I don't know. He might not. In which case, the reading part of that bill goes down.
Will he take action against the legislators, especially the Republicans, who crossed over to vote against him? He might do that too. I mean, I don't know. He's got a veto pen and he's the most powerful governor in the country. So I guess we shall see. He's got about a month now to determine what he's going to do. and also I mean they passed a $1,000 payoff day. Whoopee doopee. Let's go to Michelle. Hi Michelle.
Oh, hey, Mike. I just want to jump in real quick. This is a plea to Governor Dunleavy. I think he should go out scorched earth. I think he should go out guns blazing. and teach all of these rhino republicans a lesson because what they've done is they have betrayed and stabbed every single one of their constituents in the back. And I am especially disappointed in my own representative, Julie Colon.
who I called two times on both of her numbers, and she did not call me back either time, and I specifically asked for a call back because I wanted her to explain to me why she... Voted to override the veto. But Governor John Levy needs to go. He needs to teach all of these people. I don't care. I don't even care if it affects me. He needs to teach all of these people a lesson. These people are in it for themselves, all these people that call themselves Republicans.
They're totally in it for themselves for their chances of getting reelected. and none of them seem to understand that the school board and NEA and any of the education people care anything about them. They're going to turn around and stab them in the back. And it's especially disappointing to listen to Julie Cologne and Yunt basically cry like a baby when he's standing in the forum basically singing Kumbaya.
With the Democrats, with tears basically rolling down his face because of how they work together. Do you think the Democrats are ever going to turn around and work with the Republicans to get something that the Republicans want passed? I cannot tell you how disgusted I am. I will never vote for these people. I will never vote for Julie Colom again. I will never vote for any of these people again.
and I'm going to actively campaign against them. So I don't know what else to say except for I am disgusted. All right, well, Julie called yesterday to this show. I don't know if you heard it. Yeah, I heard it. It's a bunch of nothing. It was a bunch of nothing. There's no policy in those bills. It's nothing different than it was before. Big whoops. The schools can, you know, figure out their own cell phone thing. But, you know, big whoopsie do.
There's no policy in that. It was a big bunch of nothing. So we're getting our dividends taken away for that? You know, I mean, I was born and raised in Anchorage, 54 years. And now I have to consider leaving because we're getting taxed out of house and home. And I don't see any end in sight because people, the Republicans will not get out and vote. And the people that do get out and vote and all the people on the school board and in the legislature, they're all single people with no kids.
basically that have made it their life's mission to be liberal activists. And so, yeah, you know, they're really super good at getting their liberal activists based, you know, after the kids have went through 12 years of public school and been indoctrinated. And then they go to UAA and they get indoctrinated. And then they come out like good little communists. And so, yeah, they're really good at rallying their base, while the Republicans seem to not understand what is happening.
So, you know, I, who was born and raised in Alaska and would like to keep Alaska in my home, am investigating states like Kentucky and Tennessee, where they actually do have a Republican. And I am super sick and very disappointed. And Camilla, who is supposed to be the leader of the Republican Party, I have seen nothing from her. Nothing.
So, you know, I don't know what it's going to take. I don't know. I don't know that I have the personality to come in and do anything. But I think if I did, I could whip some people into action. I don't think I would get any votes. They probably think I'm too partisan. But you know what? What's it going to take? Literally, what's it going to take for people to change this? Because I think right now we're in so deep. I don't even know if we can get out of it.
Well, these are all concerns that have been brought up and hopefully you can make contact With Julie, I hope so. And I hope you can sit down and talk about this. There's really nothing to talk about, Mike, because she's not talking to a stupid person. What it's going to take is different people. What it's going to take is vetting. What it's going to take is basically training. people to do what their constituents ask them to do.
And it's not about getting reelected. It's about doing the job. So if you go down there and you were sent to do a job, do the job. If you don't get reelected, you don't get reelected. You know what? It's supposed to be a citizen legislature. Yeah, look at Jamie Allard. How come she can stand up to all the pressure? She can stand up to all the pressure, but Rob Young, you can't stand up to the pressure? I mean, give me a break, okay? Give me a break.
Anyways, Governor Dunleavy, if you're listening, go out scorched earth. Go out guns a-blazing. Show these final Republicans that have betrayed us all what what it looks like to be a leader in your last days. Go out guns a-blazing. All right, Michelle, thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Bye-bye. You bet. All right, 441. Got a note here from Paula down in North Kenai. She says, so the legislature is so proud of themselves for getting out of Juneau early and under, in capital letters, budget.
Why is it that they couldn't find more than a thousand dollars for the PFD? Well, because they wanted to fund or they tried to fund this education bill and they needed the money so they couldn't get the money out of the budget reserve and so they decided then that where they'll get the money they'll get it out of ADA Now, I've got to tell you, it's creative.
I don't know if it's legal. Again, I'm not an attorney. I'm not a constitutional lawyer or any of that stuff. But I can read English pretty well. And it's a question of whether or not they can go and tap money from ADA. ADA is essentially a public corporation. They establish it by the legislature, which tells you that they don't care. In 1967, the whole idea of ADA is to promote growth. and diversification economically.
They want to stimulate job creation, resource development by being essentially a bank, I guess you could say, for businesses and infrastructure projects. The way ADA operates is they essentially are like a conduit for bonds, loan guarantees, direct project financing. They look toward energy and manufacturing and small business. It works with financial institutions and it tries to be able to get Alaskans and Alaskan businesses to get the funding that they need to create these opportunities.
Ada is governed by an independent board. It's like the permanent fund in that regard and it's structured to operate. I don't know if the legislature remembered this when they created it, but it's structured to operate independently from the annual appropriations process of the legislature. The reason for that The terminology is politically insulated. Means keep your hands off the money in this business account. You can't touch it.
Now, I don't know if the legislature went and got a reading from their attorneys or how they did this. But just reading a reading of the ADA enabling legislation, you kind of wonder how in the world can you raid their reserves? This would have to be something that ADA decided to give the legislature. I don't believe they can just take it. So they've got over 500 million dollars in cash reserves
And if you take that, what do you do to the agency's health? What do you do to the bond rating? What do you do to the liquidity? What do you do to the people that are on the hook to pay it back for things? So, you know, this one needs to be looked at carefully. Now, I could be off in the weeds on this. I don't think so.
But somebody needs to look at this and I don't know if it's the Attorney General or somebody but they need to At the very least, take a hard look and decide whether or not they want to join the legislature from taking money that I'm questioning whether they have the ability or it's lawful to do. Gracias. We'll be back. Call Mike and crash now. Be a part of the show on NewsRadio 650.
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The legislature thinks they're getting very creative with the funds. They don't have enough money to do what they're trying to do. and they can't get into the reserve fund because they just didn't have the votes. So they decide, well, we'll go ahead and raid some other fund. You know, not knowing whether they can do it or not. Just do it, you know.
Which shows you there's a definite lack of planning here. And so what they did was they cut our permanent fund back as far as they believed it was safe to do. So it's now at $1,000, which in 1982 dollars is worth about $230. So, you know, thanks a lot, guys. So this is supposedly our money, really?
I'm getting tired of this. I really am. I really would like to see Somebody, and I know Mike Kronk did this last time, and I would hope he would reintroduce it, or somebody would reintroduce it, to say, look, maybe we just should give people the option of getting out of the permanent fund nonsense. Give me my money, you know, give me some sort of settlement, which I'm entitled to, and then go about your merry way. and then leave the corpus of it locked up.
and you still have to come to me to decide whether or not I as a citizen want to open that door and let the legislature essentially Wallow in billions and billions of dollars and believe me they will you know there's an expression I gave that person unlimited budget and they exceeded it We saw that with Kamala Harris. We'll see that with the legislature. So Crash, I don't know what your thoughts are, I think I do, about the...
It's a middle finger to all of us. I think that if some sort of buyout proposition was put in front of the people, I think there'd be a lot less resistance to it this time than there was when the whole Mackey plan and all that conversation.
All that kind of stuff originally became an option or something people were discussing. Because people were still holding on to the idea. Years ago, people said, we should do a payout. Everyone said the same thing. No, no, no. We need to make sure that fund is there for future generations. I think most people, most rational people that employ any type of critical thinking realize that ship has sailed. that's not going to be there for future generations.
Yeah, because we have no control over it. No, no. A statutory payout this year should be probably in between $3,000 and $4,000. if they were following the formula at this point. That's pretty much been the case for the last couple of years. For them to come back with $1,000, the only reason they're doing that is because they realize that the public backlash, if they gave you nothing...
would be a little bit too much. So my prediction is it's going to be $1,000 this year unless somebody vetoes something and sticks up for all of us. And then next year it'll be even smaller. The year after that it'll be smaller. And then within four or five years it'll be gone. I think they're setting us up. They're weaning us off of this.
slowly, so the shock isn't as jarring when they finally do take it away, but I don't think in five years anybody will be getting a PFD check. I think they've got their greedy little hands on it, and as everybody knows, when is the last time you've known the government to give you anything back? Not a chance. It's become a political weapon. They've weaponized it. It's a tool to get elected.
and then when they get elected, they whip a 180, and then they can operate under the guise here of, well, you know, what would you rather have, a bigger PFD or educated children, and things like that. We have neither. Exactly, exactly. The... If there was an option put in front of the people for a buyout, and I'm sure there would probably still be people that said, no, no, no, I don't want to participate in that, but I think overwhelmingly, then don't. I think overwhelmingly...
as a collective, the eligible residents here in the state of Alaska would be all for that at this point. Because I'm telling you, man, within five years, it's gone. There's no way that they're going to all of a sudden do the right thing.
It gets worse and worse every year. And every once in a while, they try to placate us by the placebo effect. Well, here's an energy rebate. You know what I mean? That type of deal, whatever the hell that means. Within five years, it'll be gone. There'll be no PFD checks.
And the only way to really fix this is elect new people. And the rub of that, the speed bump of that is to elect them during the election process, you have to actually believe what they say. And they'll have to go ahead and actually do what they promise while they're running.
And that is so far and few in between anymore. That's the exception, not the rule. So yes, I think a buyout is the only way we can walk away and say, you know, give me this, you take yours, we never have to bring it up again. Because it really has become the elephant in the room. and they've been given on unlimited access to this money so things like this education but they know that they have a reservoir to dip into when they want to and it comes at the expense of us and again
We talk about it all the time on the show. It's not like throwing money at the educational problems here in the state of Alaska or doing anything to make it better. We bring this up every time we talk about it. If the educational system and the money we spent on it was part of the private sector in the state of Alaska, it would have gone belly up years ago. Everybody would have been fired because it's obviously not.
solely a money issue. We throw so much money at this every year and the results get worse every year. So... They seem to be allowed to just do whatever they want, whenever they want. And the only way we're going to get rid of that, they're not going to all of a sudden whip a Yui and take care of the people that have entrusted them to do just that. The only way out of this is some sort of payout. Yeah, well, I think that's it. And I also, and I'm going to say this, you know,
I like our governor a lot. I consider him a friend. I take the world of the guy. But sometimes your friends have to tell you the truth. Not sometimes, all the time. And here's what I observed. You know people can take exception with this if they want to I You know I'm me I do this show because I do this show and people listen because they maybe think my opinions are important But, I'm gonna tell you what I think. When we come back, so stay with us.
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I guess the big question is, you know, your overall impressions. The fact that it was kind of like a jailbreak or something or a run on the bank. I remember seeing so many Republicans run to the left in my life. And basically we're sitting here and I'm looking and I'm thinking What did we just witness?
Well, you know, I'll end, I'll start like I ended. I was on the radio yesterday. I tell another post that I think, you know, the overall question keeps coming out. What is the problem? What is wrong with the state? And I think if I was to sum it up in as few words as possible, maybe a month and a half ago or so, one of the leaders, in air quotes, of the Senate majority at a press conference said that
the private sector cannot exist without the public sector. And that is exactly upside down and backwards. And I think, Mike, that might encapsulate everything that is wrong with Juno. Everything about that place is for the public. the public sector, public workers. There is little to no thought to the private sector that actually funds the public sector. That's the mindset, the mind virus that is there. I mean, I've struggled with this for years. What is our...
problem. Let me give you one more example. So there is a representative that has a former state senator from Arkansas working in that office. I had some long conversations with him about elections and some other things.
I asked him that last week. I said, hey, brother, what exactly do you see now that you've been working here a couple of years? What are we doing wrong compared to, you know, just Arkansas? I will not say that's the better or worse example. Just by comparison, what is it? He said, well, let me tell you. He's like. You guys have put so much power into the hands of so few.
that you really can't get anything done. And if there are good things to be done, only a few people hold that power. The binding caucus is one. You heard me talk about that with that resolution the other day. One person got to make that decision for the entire legislature and the entire state.
of shutting it down and that was worth potentially billions of dollars of investment and thousands of jobs and he said this he's like look there he's like we would pass a thousand bills a thousand in a session And we didn't pass six or seven this entire four months. And he's like, we don't have a finance table where everything gets gummed up and a few people get all the power. They have like a ways and means or an LBNA type committee. They don't.
Bills that they don't like, they don't give two or three or four committees to make sure they die and never see the light of day. He's like, every bill pretty much gets one committee. There's no rules committee. And a lot of people go, what the heck are you talking about, Mike? But these are the things that stop stuff from happening. The rules committee, it goes there. If you have a bad rules chair, you can just sit on everything and do nothing.
The finance chairs, they get most everything set to finance. And then if they don't like it, they just sit on it. So he said, in Arkansas, everything is one committee. And then it goes straight to the floor. And then people vote on it or not. So they can get a lot done. He's like, here in Alaska, he's like, you guys. Everything goes through, you know, two, three, four committees unless they love it, and then they expedite it and give it one quick committee and move it.
He's like, you have the rules chair with all this power. You have the finance committee chairs with all this power. He's like, the way you guys do business, he's like, it's just not a good structure compared to other states. If you were to ask me, Mike, what have we done that was good? Well... We spent a lot more money than we had. We didn't pass any meaningful legislation at all on things like election. The education package has some funding, but for me, not enough policy. I wanted to see more.
And we haven't done anything on a fiscal plan to rein in spending. We haven't done anything to prevent, you know, boys from crushing girls' sports. I mean, there's just, I know that's a hot topic, right? The point is, Michael, stop the Johnny Carson opening monologue there, but goodness gracious, we've got some problems and we've spent more money than we had.
And there are people saying, well, we balanced the budget, right? And I said, yes, we did. But we balanced the budget by once again taking more, almost another $300 million. from the permanent fund dividend check that, guess what, goes to the private sector and private citizens. Remember how I started? Our whole focus there is on the public sector. We took another $300 million.
The PFD goes from $1,400 to $1,000. We're not even at a 75-25 PFD. It's down to an 86-14 roughly. Only 14% of our earnings on the permanent fund now goes to that PFD. Everything else goes to feed government. And my ending statement is this. When people keep telling us and legislators and others that we have had flat funding, the cost of government hasn't grown. That's great. Then explain to me how we've blown through $30 billion in savings since 2013.
how we spent 24 billion of extra dollars that flowed into the state during COVID. We've now taken almost all of the permanent fund earnings for the state versus the permanent fund dividend. And you have people standing up and telling us. That no, no, the cost of government hasn't grown. If you believe that, my friends, I've got some beachfront property on the Pacific Ocean in Arizona I would like to sell you. How's that for my opening statement?
I think that's pretty good. I really do. And I just wonder now... You know how that can be corrected and I think that the governor does have some some tools in his toolbox that he can use to at least either slow or slap some of these people into coherency. You know, I don't know if it's going to work or not, but I think he should try. I don't know. Do you know what he's going to do? Do you have any idea what he might do?
Well, I have had conversations with him in recent days, and he is certainly upset that, you know, we didn't get more movement on good policy and education. He's not overly upset with funding per se. We just wanted more policy, or he does. wanted more policy, you know, improvements for literacy grants, CTE funding, and other things that just didn't materialize. And by the way,
I would add to that, and I'm not going to forget to answer your question, but you may remember people talking about, well, we just need more revenue, because like the government's a business, right? No, we need taxes. Let's call it what it is, not revenue. It's taxes.
We need more taxes. That's the problem. Well, number one, we don't have a spending cap to prevent us from overspending. So we're just going to keep doing the same thing over and over again. But I would add, and Senator Myers brought this up last week on the floor. He's like, let me give an example. You're talking about new revenue measures to help out.
We passed one so far, the legislature, that the governor has on his desk right now, that 113, the internet tax. We've already spent it, Mike. It's already dedicated. The money's gone before we even got it. It's not going into the UGF. It's not going to help reduce the funding. We spent that tax money before it even passed. The body. It's already directed to be spent. So he does have some tolls.
He can veto, but we've had these veto battles. You saw that he just got overwritten on the education package a couple days ago. He can line item veto some of the education funding. He can line item vetoes out of the capital budget and other things if he chooses to try to trim the budget a little bit more. And he can veto personal bills if he so chooses. I don't know. They've kind of backed him into a corner. So I get the sense.
The governor is kind of spring-loaded to do a lot of vetoing right now. We'll see what happens, but he definitely has those tools. and his toolkit if he chooses to use them. And we'll see in the next detail battles, and we will have them.
will be in January because I am understanding he's going to veto that tax bill, which means we're going to have to have that battle in January. If he line item vetoes money out of the BSA for this bill that just passed, then we'll probably have a battle over that in January and who knows what else.
Next year's going to start off with a bang is my expectation. So we'll just see how it goes. And next year's going to be worse, by the way. This is not gloom and doom. Like I told you before, I predict we're going to get better. with resource projects coming online, et cetera, in years ahead. But the next few years, my friend, are going to be tough because...
You know, the price of oil is dropping, and that's a third of our UGF, our unrestricted, the state money, if you will, not federal money, but state. You know, that's a third of what we get in the coffers, and that price is dropping. And as it continues to drop, our budget lows get worse. And so next year is going to start off with a bang, and it's going to be even more of a struggle than this year. So it just, you know, it's not...
It's just not fun down there right now. No, it's not. And I think that it's just from the standpoint of the people voting for, you know, legislators they expect the Republicans to stay Republicans and follow the Republican Party because that's the only way they have an idea of who these people are you know they're wearing a certain uniform you know you don't suddenly
you know, score on your own team. And that's what they've been doing. And that's just my very, you know, brief analogy here. I don't understand that. And, you know, it's like, hold tight. Work to get something that is going to be better than what you got Well, that's the reason why the thousand dollar BSA doesn't pass. All the Republicans basically stood together and said, no, that's not good enough.
And so when we do that and work with the governor, we can actually get some progress on good things. But, you know, it is what it is, Mike. Some of the legislators decided this time. That's fine. I'm not going to bemoan anybody their vote. How they vote is whatever they think is best for them, their district, the state. That's cool. I don't want anybody yelling at me about my vote. My vote is between me and the people I represent.
And so, you know, they vote the way they vote. However, you know, this time around, some of the Republicans decided that this deal of 57 was good enough. And so we were, you know, they overrode the governor's veto. I wanted to see a little better. It wasn't good enough for me, so I voted to uphold the veto. I wanted to see more. That's just kind of the way it goes sometimes, but you're not wrong.
We have, you know, 32 Republicans out of 60 legislators, and both bodies are controlled by Democrats. So I'm just looking at people going, well, what do you want us to do, folks? I mean... People are putting in new people into power, but we keep having these bodies controlled by Democrats. And the entire time I have been there for eight years, one or both bodies have been controlled by Democrats, even though there has always been more Republicans.
Every time, every year I've been there, but they're always one or both bodies controlled. So it kind of tells you we got some, you know, Houston, we have a problem. Not going like you would think it would. So it's been challenging because, Mike, there's 11 Republicans in the Senate, but I'm in a minority of six Republicans. So what does that sound like?
I know you know if you told somebody this they would look at you like you're crazy but This is Alaska and we've got to do we've got to do better I mean and there needs to be better vetting there needs to be there needs to be consequences for people that don't do what their constituents want which means that They get sent out to pasture. It's like you're retired now. Bye bye. Thank you for your help.
And, you know, don't make a career out of this thing. You know, that's the other part of it. I will tell you this, Mike. One of the things we see is the left keeps kicking our butt with these initiatives. They've got tons of almost unlimited money. flowing into Alaska from down south. That's another bill they want, campaign finance reform. But they want to limit individual donations, which is going to hurt Republicans and not Democrats. Democrats get the benefit of the big unions.
the money and stuff that they don't have to support. They have virtually unlimited funding and manpower to help them. Republicans don't get that advantage for the most part, unless they're very big pro-union, and there are a couple. So that's a disadvantage to us, and they want to pass that law. This is what they do, and here's my point. When they don't get their way legislatively, they get those big...
the big money, and they generate with help of different lower 48 organizations and people inside of Alaska, they generate these initiatives. And they pass things like that crappy SB 91 crime law. They pass ranked choice voting. They passed the minimum wage bill that had a lot of restrictions on free speech last year. That's what they do. They've got more coming next year.
One for, I know they want to push the national popular vote, where it doesn't matter, you know, basically get rid of the electoral college. They've got one coming for campaign finance reform. We need to get off our rear end and figure out how to start funneling money into the state, because we don't have the deep pockets of big states.
We need to figure out how to get some benefactors down south that can do for us what the Democrats get advantage to all the time and figure out how to start running these initiatives ourselves. Because if the people really want change, it's going to have to be different. Banging our heads against the wall in the legislature is not working.
We're not making progress. I'm looking at it going, yeah, maybe it's time for some asymmetric warfare here. Maybe it's time we start doing what they're doing. Let's start launching initiatives and do it ourselves. I agree. I'm going to talk to the fighter pilot here, and the way you have superiority is you have better tactics, superior weapons, And you go after somebody. You put them on the defense. You attack. And they're not... We don't do that.
Yeah, you find weaknesses, Mike. You don't, you know, the best plan, although they did that in the old days, is you don't line up in a line, right, and charge the board head-on into a cannon fire machine gun.
we found out world war one that doesn't work very well well we don't do that anymore we hit them where they are weakest and that's where you overwhelm and do things and so we all have vulnerabilities i'm talking like parties and how they do things but we need to make sometimes a playbook from the enemy and go look if it's working Maybe we should be doing that. I mean, as opposed to just going, let's just elect better people. Hit the vote button harder. It's not
We're not making progress because even sometimes Republicans go down there and join the Democrats. So how can we... fix some of our issues. And what they've been doing is legislating through initiative. They've been doing it for a year. We should do the same thing. We should do the same thing, and we should be cultivating the big money. The thing is, supposedly, we've got a good friend in President Trump.
Okay, I think it's time to sit down with him or his people and say, look, you want Alaska to do all of these great things and we want to do them, but we can't do them unless we have some help and we need help. So help us. I'm hoping that the president is going to help us in ring choice voting. I've been asking through surrogates and I understand that he wants to help us.
So maybe we're going to get some help from the president on ranked choice voting, some advertisements, some other things. That's a plus and that's a start. I mean, if President Trump says ranked choice voting is bad and makes us some, you know, for lack of a better term, some free, you know. campaigns against it, that goes a long way. We need that kind of help. We do.
Well, I think this is all important to do. I'm more than willing to do my part to help Alaska get out of this mess. And I know you are. We'll just keep talking and hopefully we can get something done.
Well, you know, Mike, I'm not giving up, obviously, but it is frustrating, and you're tired when you come home. Right now, I'm in kind of that bad mood, right, because you're floating over you, getting beaten into the ground for months, and it's like you're just tired until everybody leaves you alone. We'll recharge the batteries and get back. I mean, we did some stuff. I mean, we stopped a bad election bill from going through. You know, the budget was not...
terrible in the sense of what was available other than balancing on the back of the PFD again because we don't have a plan. But still, we're not nearly doing the things that we should be doing or stopping the things that shouldn't be happening. You've got to look at it. I have to figure out how to do it a little bit differently. because our current plan is just not working. And so we have to think a little bit outside the box and see where we go with that.
Don't give up. You know, it's going to be a big battle next year again. Always is every year. But I'm trying my best to be positive because when you leave that place after four months, you usually aren't. Alright, well, you need to get back into the private sector and get your head back to where it should be. I'm here. If you have any questions or problems, believe me, I can help, I think. And let's just chat during the time you're back, okay?
I will say goodbye, and the irony of your statement is I haven't even been home 24 hours, and I'm already driving back to the airport to fly a trip to start making money and get back in the saddle. I jumped from the frying pan right into the fire. I don't even get a break. That's just the way it goes. Oh, well. Back to work. All right. Well, happy flying. Thanks, Mike. You bet. Take care. Bye-bye. Senator Mike Schauer. We'll be right back. Back to the Mike Porcaro Show with Crash. 6.50.
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the things he was talking about and how things are going in Juneau. And we really need to attack this on a number of different fronts. And I thought it was interesting that he brought up the initiative process. He's right. That's kind of how the left gets a lot of things through. You know, we were supposed to have that Constitutional Convention, and they killed that. Why did they kill that? Because they didn't want us to actually make our Constitution better and more responsive.
because they like the power that they have. Right. Why would they, the people that can affect change are the people that benefit from the status quo. So why would they make those changes if they don't have to? I just, I mean, you had Julie Colom on yesterday, expressed her disappointment in how she voted on all this. My representative in the House is the minority leader in the House, Amia Costello, and she's a Republican, or she says she is.
And my understanding is if you're the leader of that group of people, one of your main jobs is to remain steadfastly arm-in-arm with your Republican governor. And I got to say, I'm very disappointed in the way she voted as well. I mean, I don't understand it. And again, there's no repercussions up to this point for them jumping ship and moving to the other side of the fence.
Because this is a weird thing. The education bill and then the vetoing and the overriding of the veto and all that kind of stuff. There's a lot of tertiary language in here that can be confusing. I'm on the show every day and I still get confused by the terminology. So what they can do when they run again, they can come out and make these bold statements because they know that you probably don't
I'm not trying to demean anybody, but it's a lot to learn. It's a lot to know about. They can come out and use their political speak to convince you that they did this for the right reason. Well, that right reason cut your PFD by two-thirds almost. And they're going to come out and they're going to say, and I mentioned it before, what would you rather have, a big check or educated children?
Well, you've shown us absolutely no evidence that throwing more money at this is going to benefit educationally the children in the state of Alaska, because we throw money at it all the time, and the results just continuously get worse and worse.
It's a difficult situation to be in for people when it is time to vote because, number one, they don't tell you the truth. I've said this numerous times, but you've had people running for office say and admit to you, to your face, that you have to lie to get elected.
So I think that that's pretty much commonplace. So that's their first line of defense is just tell you what they think you want to hear. And then they can bog it down with all of these broad sweeping statements about how I did it for this. I know that we had to make concessions, but we did it for the right reasons. That's all BS. You got betrayed. You got absolutely jobbed. That's what happened.
And, you know, if you live in the district of these people that did this, I would highly encourage you to employ yourself a long memory because that's, in my opinion, that's what a lot of these people count on. Apathy and short memories.
And they're going to come out and they're going to make all these statements when it's time to run again how they did this, but they did it for the right reason. Trust me. It's me in the long run. You're going to benefit from all this. No, no, no, no, no. We all got screwed. That's what happened.
And there's no other way to put it. So do a little bit of research and figure out, the person in your district that's running, figure out what they did, why they did it, and how they did it to you, not for you. Yeah. Well, and what I was going to tell people at the beginning of the hour was simply this. As I said, I have good old respect for the governor. I consider him a friend. I don't always agree with him, but I understand where he comes from but most of the time I do But here's what I see
I don't see any respect from the legislature to the governor. None. Given what they just did and the way they did it. And the high-fiving and all the other stuff you know whether it was real or imagined it was there So they essentially said to the governor, you don't matter. We're in charge. We'll do anything we want and you will just have to take it. volumes because The Democrats, the people that are on the left side,
They now know that the people that are supposedly, and I'm using finger quotes and I'm only using one finger on each hand. Too bad the radio doesn't have pictures. The Republicans, they know that they've got you moved over to their side as well. So they know that even the people that are supposed to be
supporting and standing in line with our Republican governor, they know that they're going to stab him in the back. So there's no reason for them to give him any measure of respect. And we talked about this off air, and you had a really good point. All the people with an R after your name that jump to the other side of the fence and think you've got a new friend,
and your Democrat buddies over there, they're going to work just as hard as anybody to get you out of office next election. They're not going to take that into consideration next time. and a lot of this is republican voted now they want you've gone they want some of the day after yourself any favors either with your constituents or you're not you know you're feeding little bodies there in juneau this is a no win for any of them they will help them get rid of that
Exactly what happened. They're not going to give you any sort of concession next time it's time for you to run because you did them a favor. This kind of stuff is dirty. If they're willing to, at the drop of a hat, screw over their constituents, what do they think you're going to do to you? You did. You helped them get rid of you. So the only thing that I see the governor can do...
And I hope that, you know, I don't like people to be disrespected. And he's a decent man, truly. But I just don't like it when people just totally disrespect you. Well, he and I are different people. It wouldn't get to that point with me. We would have some sort of clash way before this. And I would use the weapons at my disposal to make sure that I kept the people on my side of the fence on my side of the fence. Or they would suffer the slings and arrows of their outrageous decisions.
But it would be fitting if the governor said, look, you didn't give me what I wanted. You didn't respect me in this process. You know, I don't expect the Democrats to respect me, but I do expect the Republicans to respect me. And so here's what I'm going to do. And then come out with a list of vetoes. and essentially say here you go you like to override things You might want to get busy Because this is what your life is going to look like.
Nothing is going to happen. So in January, I guess we'll have some fun. In the meantime, he'll have between now and January to work on some of these wayward people to get them back Across the line or say you know I'm going to be gone in two years or whatever it is 26 you guys are running for reelection I'm going to remember you the way you remembered me
I mean these are all things that he has at his disposal and the problem that I see is there's never any consequences. Well, I hope that the governor sees what happens He doesn't have the respect. They're not working with him. They're working against him. They didn't work with the minority coalitions. They worked against them. And essentially what they said was, come along with us. We're your friends.
Well, they're gonna be your friends until you can't give them what they want. They got what they wanted. The fact that you voted this way, here's what you've done. If I may be so bold to talk to my Republican friends, here's what you've done. You haven't made any friends with the Democrats. They're not going to vote for you. They're never going to vote for you. But what you've done is you've alienated some, not all, but some of your Republican supporters. So now do the math.
Democrats aren't voting for you, and now some of you Republicans, maybe more than you'd like, have now said, I'm done with you. What do you think your chances are of getting re-election? Think about that. We'll be back. Get on with Mike and Crash weekdays at 3 on News Radio 650 KENI.
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It's 907-646-2228. I have them. They did work for me and they did beautiful work. Did you say Joe is on the line there, Crash? Joe, go ahead. Hey, Mike, real quick. Who do I vote for in the Trugach election? Who? I was going to say Bernie Smith. I had Bernie on the show. Okay, that's who I'm going to vote for. Also, the dome. Who pays for the dome? Is it user people pay or who pays for the dome? Oh, the dome that's out part of town here? I don't know. I don't know who pays for it.
I was just wondering if the users pay for it or whether the city has to pay for it. I'm just curious. I think there's a fee involved to use it, but I don't know very much about it. I've never been out there. Is there any way that you can find out? Well, I guess I could. All right. Well, I'll just listen down the road then. And I want to thank you for your help. Alright, well, good luck. Alright, thank you.
You bet. All right, 553. Okay, the Anchorage Dome is primarily funded through a combination of sources, including loans, donations, private investment, and funding from the Anchorage Opportunity Fund, whatever that is. It almost relies on facility users and profits generated are reinvested into the facility. So it's a combination of all of that stuff.
Okay, so there's some, is there some public money in there? Yeah, the dome also relies on facility users, so I'm assuming that means you pay dues and fees. That means you pay. Yeah. and profits generated from that are reinvested into the facility okay so the dome has a number of funding sources some of which You pay for when you go and use it. Okay.
The dome's initial construction was largely financed by tax-exempt bonds issued to institutional investors, according to bankruptcy court filings. After the 2017 collapse, it was arranged funding through loans, donations, and investment, the rebuilding it was from the Anchorage Opportunity Fund.
The Anchorage Opportunity Fund, a public-private investment fund, also contributed $3 million in reconstruction, drawing from private investors and city investment fund, called the 49th State Fund. Operational costs are primarily borne by facility users, and profits are reinvested into the facility. The forensic endowment fund is also in place to support the long-term operations of the facility. So it's a combination of donations, some sort of fund, and to keep the day-to-day operation running.
As primarily for the users, go ahead and flip the bill for that. Right. There you go. Joe, hopefully that answers your question. You're just right on top of things, aren't you? Yeah, I was already screwing around on the internet while I was supposed to be listening to the show, so I figured it was just easy just to type that in.
Well, I'm glad you just let that last cat video go. Yeah, well, they're not going to watch themselves, Mike. No, they're not. So, you know, what do I know? All right, well, we got... One more show before the Memorial Day holiday. Yeah. And I don't know what, you know, usually the day before one of these holidays is just so quiet. We're off on Monday, though, so.
Yeah, well, thank you. Yeah, no problem. I wasn't coming in on Monday. But I'm glad that it's an official action. I have a boss around here and I have like two and a half employees. Just let me have this, okay? Okay, okay. Can I get off on Monday? Yeah, we're going to go ahead and let all you guys have on Monday off. Okay, wow. How about Saturday and Sunday? You got those off? Sure. You know what? We'll finish up the show tomorrow and then take the next three days off.
But I gotta work tomorrow. Yeah, you gotta work tomorrow. Okay. Well, that means you have to work tomorrow, too. Yeah. Although working on this show is really not like working. I took Wednesday off, so I think that that should be a thing. People are talking about four-day work weeks. Yeah, I'd like that. I would too, but I don't want three days off in a row. i think wednesday saturday and sunday should be the days off
It breaks up the monotony of the work week. That's what I think. I'm going to write a letter. Okay, write a letter to yourself. Okay. And see what you say. I'll be interested in what you have to say. I don't listen to a word I say, so it's not going to go very far. Probably smart. All right, we will see everybody tomorrow, the day before. the memorial they wage at. Then we're going to enjoy three days off and I know I am. We'll see you tomorrow. We all know what it's like to Eat a bite.
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